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Theatre Basics
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1. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Characters in the Peking Opera
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Aphra Behn
Africa
2. 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
Japanese Theatre
Opera
well-made plays
3. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Lyrics
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Blaise Pascal
4. One of the most important French philosophers of the Age of Reason - wrote and edited the first encyclopedia; was also a dramatist who penned books on the techniques of acting; authored The Paradox of Acting - a book that attached the pompous declama
John Millington Synge
Nickelodeons
Denis Diderot
The Black Crook
5. 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
Naturalism
Ta'ziyeh
Performance Art
Daguerreotype
6. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Variety Show
Performance Art
Poetic Realism
7. In Sigmund Romberg's play the king young heir to the throne sacrifices his personal happiness for the good of the kingdom when he sorrowfully pulls himself away from his true love in order to marry a princess whom he does not love
Minstrel Show
The Student Prince
Goethe
Ken Saro-Wiwa
8. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Vaudeville
Operetta
The Living Theatre
book musicals
9. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
non-Western Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
Kabuki
Oscar Wilde
10. 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
Beaumarchais
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Goethe
Lyrics
11. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
The Koran
Avant-Garde
Off-Off-Broadway
12. Writes the book
Opera
Opera
Librettist
Alienation Effect
13. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Bunraku movements
Ziegfield Follies
Minstrel Show
Ta'ziyeh
14. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ritual Theatre
dance musicals
Ha
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
15. 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
overture
Shadow Theatre
Opera
Chinese Theatre
16. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Lorraine Handsberry
Problem plays
Regional Theatre
Naturalism
17. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Librettist
Happenings
box set
18. 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
Andre Antoine
Burlesque
Surrealism
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
19. What western theatre is often called:
Romantics
Theatre of Cruelty
Aristotelian
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
20. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
A Dream Play (1902)
The Black Crook
Burlesque
William Fox Talbot
21. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
A Trip to Coontown
Theatre of Cruelty
Natyasastra
22. Writes the lyrics
Lyricist
Kabuki
Japanese Theatre
First Public Opera House
23. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Andre Antoine
The Black Crook
Daguerreotype
24. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
musical comedy
Book
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
25. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Kafkaesque
Alienation Effect
Kordian (1962)
Aphra Behn
26. 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)
Africa
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Oscar Wilde
Operetta
27. 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
Bread and Puppet Theatre
The Living Theatre
Man and Superman (1903)
overture
28. 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
Communists took control
Ta'ziyeh
Shavian Comedies
Realism
29. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
Noh drama
musical
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
30. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Bertolt Brecht
Ta'ziyeh
Kafkaesque
Romantic Playwrights
31. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Africa
Emile Zola
Off Broadway
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
32. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Kathakali
Bunraku movements
Western Drama
Ritual Theatre
33. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
overture
Burlesque
Lyricist
34. 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
Shakespeare's King John
Off-Off-Broadway
Problem plays
Non-Western Drama
35. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Peking Opera
The Jazz Singer
Highly Stylized Gestures
Lyrics
36. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Restoration
Shavian Comedies
Maxim Gorky
Dance of the Forest
37. 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
Naturalism
Little Theatre Movement
Anton Chekhov
Goethe
38. Earliest form for photography
musical
Daguerreotype
The Communist Manifesto
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
39. Islam's holy book - contains a warning about 'graven images' similar to the one in the Bible - prohibition applies to dolls - statues - portraits - and people playing a character
The Koran
A Trip to Coontown
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Showstopper
40. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Lyricist
Ritual Theatre
Comic opera
Fatalist Absurdism
41. 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
Librettist
Surrealism
Jo
Sanskrit Drama
42. 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
Operatic Musicals
Painted-face roles
Kafkaesque
Oscar Wilde
43. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ken Saro-Wiwa
book musicals
John Millington Synge
Nell Gwynn
44. Based off the idea that before a problem can be solved - society must first understand that the problem exists; 'attack the message - not the messenger'
Problem plays
Louis Daguerre
George Bernard Shaw
Reprise
45. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Noh drama and Kabuki
Blaise Pascal
Bertolt Brecht
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
46. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
The Interpretation of Dreams
book musicals
Noh drama
Off Broadway
47. Proclaimed 'God is dead...and we have killed him.'; felt taht absence of God was a tragedy - but believed human beings needed to accept the tragedy and move forward in a world that was unjust and meaningless
Vaudeville
George Bernard Shaw
Peking Opera
Friedrich Nietzsche
48. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Ta'ziyeh
Broadway Shows
Surrealism
Naturalism
49. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Dance of the Forest
Theatre of Cruelty
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
rock musical
50. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Denis Diderot
Existential Absurdism
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)