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Theatre Basics
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1. A medley of the show's songs played as a preview; usually the beginning of a traditional musical; lets the audience know that it's time to stop talking because the performance is about to begin
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
The Living Theatre
overture
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
2. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Henrik Ibsen
Ballad Operas
Maxim Gorky
Fourth Room
3. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Jo
Communists took control
Fourth Room
Melodrama
4. A German poet - director and playwright who challenged traditional ideas about theatre; became a communist after watching policement shoot 4 unarmed civilians; The Life of Galileo (1938) - Mother Courage and her Children (1939) & The Caucasian Chalk
Bertolt Brecht
Aristotelian
Naturalism
Shadow Theatre
5. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Aristotelian
Lyricist
First Public Opera House
John Millington Synge
6. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
John Millington Synge
Andre Antoine
Jean-Paul Sartre
7. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Jo
The Communist Manifesto
Minstrel Show
musical comedy
8. Writes the music
Little Theatre Movement
Revue (Musical Review)
Straight Plays
Composer
9. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Dadaism
Kabuki
Das Kapital
10. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)
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11. Form of drama that dominated theatre in India for a thousand years; named for the ancient Indian language in which its plays are performed; combine the natural and the supernatural - the believable and unbelievable
Broadway Shows
Naturalism
Sanskrit Drama
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
12. Term used to describe performances that mix theatre - visual arts - music - dance - gesture and rituals; often use multimedia effects - sounds and lighting effects to make a point and allow the audience to understand its deeper implications; often re
Performance Art
Showstopper
Communists took control
Aphra Behn
13. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Das Kapital
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Opera
Variety Show
14. Form of theatre that mixed traditional African ritual theatre and Western-style drama; encouraged African nationalism - glorified Africa's past - and advanced African customs - rituals - and culture; also dealt with serious political themes and appla
A Dream Play (1902)
Japanese Theatre
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Total Theatre
15. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Comic opera
The Enlightenment
A Trip to Coontown
Ballad Operas
16. Attacked the evils and restrictions of society; tried to reveal the higher reality of the unconscious mind with fantastic imagery and contradictory images; performances were often violent and cruel as they tried to shock the audience into the realiza
Lyrics
Theatre of Cruelty
Surrealism
Straight Plays
17. Most famous surrealist and was a French writer and director; studied Asian religions - mysticism - and ancient cultures; declared theatre should should wake the nerves and heart; argued that proscenium arch theatres create a barrier between the audie
Antonin Artaud
Voltaire
Broadway Shows
Aristotelian
18. French Enlightenment playwright; was an inventor and thinker who spent countless hours at the leading intellectual salons of France; most famous plays are The Barber of Seville - and The Marriage of Figaro - his plays reflect the attitudes of the Enl
Beaumarchais
Variety Show
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
musical
19. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Lyricist
musical
Das Kapital
Book
20. Comedies forced Victorian society to reexamine its hypocrisies; Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) - A WOman of No Importance (1893) - An Ideal Husband (1894); advocated 'art for art's sake'; The Importance of Being Ernest
Wole Soyinka
Oscar Wilde
Existentialism
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
21. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
William Fox Talbot
Showstopper
musical comedy
Beaumarchais
22. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Straight Plays
Bunraku movements
Oscar Wilde
Broadway Shows
23. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
The Living Theatre
Andre Antoine
Verfremdung
Gotthold Lessing
24. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Natyasastra
Mie pose
3 components of Musical Scripts
Broadway Shows
25. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Chinese Theatre
Revue (Musical Review)
Verfremdung
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
26. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Jean-Paul Sartre
Existential Absurdism
Composer
27. Result of western influence - a toned down version of Kabuki - told stories of everyday life - particularly those of women - women played women's parts (whereas Kabuki was all male)
Chinese Theatre
Shimpa
The Koran
Symbolism
28. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Off-Off-Broadway
Henrik Ibsen
Verfremdung
Ritual Theatre
29. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Comic opera
Reprise
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Louis Daguerre
30. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Absurdism
book musicals
Henrik Ibsen
Painted-face roles
31. No spoken dialogue - entirely sung; comes from the Latin word 'work' and may have originally meant 'works in music' or 'musical works for the stage'; first operas were in Italy in late 1500s
Opera
Dance of the Forest
Romantic Playwrights
Shadow Theatre
32. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
Burlesque
box set
Book
Naturalistic Plays
33. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
Burlesque
Sentimental Comedies
Nell Gwynn
34. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Beaumarchais
Mie pose
Ki
Precolonial African Theatre
35. A sudden - striking pose (often with their eyes crossed - chin sharply turned - and big toe pointed towards the sky) in Kabuki accompanied by several powerful beats of wooden clappers
Lyricist
Vaudeville
Mie pose
George Bernard Shaw
36. Book - music - and lyrics
Shakuntala
Melodrama
Ballad Operas
3 components of Musical Scripts
37. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Vaudeville
Symbolism
Domestic Tragedies
38. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
The Communist Manifesto
rock musical
musical comedy
Man and Superman (1903)
39. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
women could legally appear on stages in England
Highly Stylized Gestures
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
40. Africa's greatest living playwright; born in Nigeria; plays combine symbolism - mysticism - beautiful dialogue - and they make strong political points; plays are deeply rooted in African myths - dance - and rituals but also influenced by Western dram
Ziegfield Follies
Nickelodeons
Wole Soyinka
Lyricist
41. Africa's greatest living playwright; born in Nigeria; plays combine symbolism - mysticism - beautiful dialogue - and they make strong political points; plays are deeply rooted in African myths - dance - and rituals but also influenced by Western dram
Lyricist
Theatre of Cruelty
box set
Wole Soyinka
42. The artist imposes his own internal state onto the outside world itself; expressionism is a subjective account of an objective perception; expressionist plays use deliberate set distortion
book musicals
William Fox Talbot
Expressionism
well-made plays
43. Sarcastic label of Scribe's plays; the sympathetic protagonist suffers at the hands of an evil antagonist in the course of intense action - suspense - and contrived play devices; ending is always happy and the loose ends are neatly tied up
Faust
well-made plays
non-Western Theatre
George Bernard Shaw
44. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
The Student Prince
Harold Pinter
Straight Plays
Noh drama and Kabuki
45. The German equivalent to Diderot; was a playwright - critic - and Enlightenment philosopher Who wrote tragedies and comedies about the middle-class; his greatest play was Nathan the Wise
Wole Soyinka
Melodrama
Gotthold Lessing
Dadaism
46. One of the most valuable historical records of Indian theatre; an encyclopedic book of dramatic theory and practice; has 37 chapters and covers every aspect of classical Indian drama - also a treatise on dramatic theory and philosophy - states that t
Natyasastra
Blaise Pascal
Aristotelian
William Fox Talbot
47. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Bertolt Brecht
Variety Show
3 components of Musical Scripts
Kordian (1962)
48. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
Shakespeare's King John
Ha
First Public Opera House
49. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
The Black Crook
Jean-Paul Sartre
Romantic Playwrights
50. A dialogue that captures the incoherence - broken language - and pauses of modern speech; usually marked by surreal distortion and impending danger; from writing of Franz Kafka
Little Theatre Movement
Daguerreotype
Straight Plays
Kafkaesque