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Theatre Basics
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1. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
dance musicals
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Enlightenment
Samuel Beckett
2. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Nell Gwynn
Variety Show
Wole Soyinka
Sentimental Comedies
3. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
The Student Prince
Oscar Wilde
Islamic Culture
4. The sung words
Sean O'Casey
Lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Sean O'Casey
5. 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
John Millington Synge
Gotthold Lessing
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Revue (Musical Review)
6. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Kafkaesque
Noh drama and Kabuki
Shakespeare's King John
Little Theatre Movement
7. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Fatalist Absurdism
Blaise Pascal
Antonin Artaud
8. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Librettist
Das Kapital
Ta'ziyeh
Comic opera
9. Plays without music
Ha
Sanskrit Drama
Straight Plays
musical
10. 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
Early European travelers and missionaries
Expressionism
The Communist Manifesto
Kafkaesque
11. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Naturalism
Ballad Operas
Romantic Playwrights
onnagata
12. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Sentimental Comedies
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sanskrit Drama
John Millington Synge
13. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years
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14. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
The Living Theatre
Nell Gwynn
Librettist
Painted-face roles
15. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Africa
Music
Natyasastra
16. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
A Trip to Coontown
William Fox Talbot
Naturalism
17. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Kathakali
Eugene Ionesco
Shavian Comedies
Wole Soyinka
18. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Africa
Sanskrit Drama
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Aristotelian
19. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
The Living Theatre
Lorraine Handsberry
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Intermezzi
20. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Early European travelers and missionaries
women could legally appear on stages in England
Happenings
21. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Surrealism
Communists took control
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Jo
22. 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
non-Western Theatre
Dadaism
Noh drama
Wole Soyinka
23. 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
Painted-face roles
Opera
Antonin Artaud
Faust
24. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Reprise
Jean-Paul Sartre
Poetic Realism
rock musical
25. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
non-Western Theatre
Hilarious Absurdism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
26. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Anton Chekhov
Lyricist
Ki
Emile Zola
27. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Fourth Room
Naturalism
Naturalism
Hilarious Absurdism
28. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Mie pose
Blaise Pascal
Minstrel Show
Bertolt Brecht
29. 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
Dadaism
Beaumarchais
Gotthold Lessing
book musicals
30. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Sentimental Comedies
A Dream Play (1902)
Ha
Burlesque
31. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Happenings
Shavian Comedies
Non-Western Drama
Lyrics
32. A robust and spectacular version of Noh; named after the characters for 'song' - 'dance' - and 'skill'; created by a woman named Okuni - owner of a brothel
Early European travelers and missionaries
Kabuki
Shakuntala
Bertolt Brecht
33. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Comic opera
The Student Prince
Poetic Realism
Hilarious Absurdism
34. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Bertolt Brecht
Lyrics
Man and Superman (1903)
Dance of the Forest
35. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Opera
Comic opera
Western Drama
Alienation Effect
36. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Islamic Culture
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Kordian (1962)
well-made plays
37. Most popular type of theatre during the Restoration; often featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification - bedroom escapades - and humankind's unrefined nature when it comes to sex
Sentimental Comedies
Regional Theatre
Comedy of Manners
Shadow Theatre
38. Writes the lyrics
Lyricist
Composer
Henrik Ibsen
Broadway Shows
39. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Operatic Musicals
Naturalistic Plays
Faust
Happenings
40. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Shakuntala
Islamic Culture
musical comedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
41. No protagonist; deals with a family of characters who tell many stories at once; the fact that characters on stage take no action may inspire audience members to be motivated for the opposite in real life
Gotthold Lessing
Western Drama
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Total Theatre
42. 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
The Living Theatre
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Kyu
Avant-Garde
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
Early European travelers and missionaries
Off-Off-Broadway
well-made plays
Kabuki
44. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Off-Off-Broadway
Avant-Garde
Theatre of Cruelty
Music
45. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Western Drama
Naturalism
Nickelodeons
Total Theatre
46. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
Avant-Garde
Showstopper
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Non-Western Drama
47. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
box set
Early European travelers and missionaries
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
48. 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
The Interpretation of Dreams
Restoration
Anton Chekhov
Ha
49. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Off Broadway
Regional Theatre
Kathakali
Bread and Puppet Theatre
50. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Aphra Behn
Expressionism
Alienation Effect
The Cherry Orchard (1904)