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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
rock musical
Little Theatre Movement
Book
Lorraine Handsberry
2. Light opera - differs from 'grand opera' because it has a frivolous - comic theme - some spoken dialogue - a melodramatic story - and usually a little dancing; The Mikado (1885)
Operetta
Aphra Behn
Vaudeville
Denis Diderot
3. A popular form of stage entertainment from the 1880s to the 1940s; included a dozen or so slapstick comedy routines - song-and-dance numbers - magic acts and juggling or acrobatic performances
Vaudeville
Blaise Pascal
Problem plays
Noh drama and Kabuki
4. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Fatalist Absurdism
Blaise Pascal
Characters in the Peking Opera
5. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Voltaire
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Fourth Room
Shakespeare's King John
6. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Dance of the Forest
Voltaire
Melodrama
Communists took control
7. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Problem plays
Sentimental Comedies
Louis Daguerre
8. Grew up in poverty and put himself through medical school and set up free clinics in Russia to help the poor; The Seagull (1896) - Uncle Vanya (1899) Three Sisters (1901) & The Cherry Orchard (1904); placed on stage the lazy chaos of lives crushed by
Happenings
The Communist Manifesto
Intermezzi
Anton Chekhov
9. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
William Fox Talbot
Intermezzi
Noh drama and Kabuki
The Communist Manifesto
10. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Emile Zola
Avant-Garde
Ballad Operas
rock musical
11. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Revue (Musical Review)
Antonin Artaud
The Adding Machine (1923)
Romantics
12. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
dance musicals
William Fox Talbot
Nell Gwynn
Denis Diderot
13. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Faust
Shavian Comedies
Expressionism
Daguerreotype
14. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Peking Opera
Dance of the Forest
Friedrich Nietzsche
15. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Noh drama
Africa
Peking Opera
Restoration
16. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
Realism
Minstrel Show
women could legally appear on stages in England
Ha
17. 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
Off-Off-Broadway
overture
George Bernard Shaw
A Dream Play (1902)
18. 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
Wole Soyinka
Symbolism
Bertolt Brecht
Ta'ziyeh
19. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
Wole Soyinka
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Western Drama
Emile Zola
20. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
rock musical
Emile Zola
Kabuki
Realism
21. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Henrik Ibsen
Composer
Painted-face roles
Off-Off-Broadway
22. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
dance musicals
The Interpretation of Dreams
Voltaire
23. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Lorraine Handsberry
Jukebox musicals
Das Kapital
musical
24. Type of theatre that grew out of ritual - incorporated acting - music - storytelling - poetry - dance - costumes - and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama
Precolonial African Theatre
Sentimental Comedies
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
The Black Crook
25. History plays about major political events of the past - domestic plays about the loves and lives of merchants and townspeople - and dance-dramas about the world of spirits and animals
Total Theatre
Realism
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
The Adding Machine (1923)
26. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Composer
Shadow Theatre
William Fox Talbot
A Dream Play (1902)
27. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
Dadaism
Noh drama
Realism
28. One of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment - French poet - essayist - and playwright whose writing often got him in trouble with the church; built a theatre on his own estate so he could freely present his plays
Aristotelian
A Dream Play (1902)
Voltaire
Jean-Paul Sartre
29. Writes the lyrics
Lyricist
Alienation Effect
Maxim Gorky
Noh drama and Kabuki
30. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
rock musical
Total Theatre
rock musical
Man and Superman (1903)
31. Three parts of a Noh play
well-made plays
Maxim Gorky
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Composer
32. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
women could legally appear on stages in England
Bertolt Brecht
The Black Crook
Problem plays
33. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
non-Western Theatre
The Student Prince
Painted-face roles
Eugene Ionesco
34. 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
William Fox Talbot
Bertolt Brecht
Nickelodeons
35. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Opera
Africa
John Millington Synge
Sean O'Casey
36. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Precolonial African Theatre
The Jazz Singer
Happenings
musical comedy
37. One of the most popular Kabuki and Bunraku playwrights - who - like Shakespeare - wrote crowd-pleasing plays that combined poetry and prose in dramatic tales of comedy - tragedy - love - and war
Variety Show
William Fox Talbot
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Ritual Theatre
38. Writes the lyrics
Romantics
Painted-face roles
The Communist Manifesto
Lyricist
39. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Melodrama
The Enlightenment
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
40. Book - music - and lyrics
Henrik Ibsen
Operatic Musicals
Goethe
3 components of Musical Scripts
41. Built in Venice in 1637
Intermezzi
Oscar Wilde
Romantic Playwrights
First Public Opera House
42. Greatest of the Sturm und Drang playwrights; was also a critic - journalist - painter - biologist - statesman - poet - novelist - philosopher - scientist - and the manager of the Duke of Weimar's playhouse
The Black Crook
Goethe
Western Drama
Das Kapital
43. 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
Ki
Operetta
box set
Happenings
44. Plays without music
dance musicals
Naturalism
Straight Plays
Total Theatre
45. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Kafkaesque
Japanese Theatre
Opera
Romantic Playwrights
46. Filled with characters who cannot resist an argument about social issues; no character is exempt from talking politics and theorizing about moral - artistic or religious reform
Shavian Comedies
Voltaire
Showstopper
Ritual Theatre
47. Records of this type of theatre are fragmentary - but we do know that it grew out of regional religious rituals related to Confucianism - Taoism - and Buddhism - and ritual dances performed during the Shang dynasty
Total Theatre
Verfremdung
Emile Zola
Chinese Theatre
48. 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
Total Theatre
Reprise
Kafkaesque
Peking Opera
49. 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
Kyu
Gotthold Lessing
A Dream Play (1902)
Jean-Paul Sartre
50. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Librettist
Sentimental Comedies
Aristotelian
Little Theatre Movement