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Theatre Basics
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1. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Shavian Comedies
Maxim Gorky
Aristotelian
Non-Western Drama
2. 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
musical
Andre Antoine
Denis Diderot
3. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
3 components of Musical Scripts
The Black Crook
The Koran
book musicals
4. 'The Father of Realism'; was initially a Romantic writer and his early plays were verse dramas largely based on Norwegian history and folk literature; plays presented complex - sometimes distrubing - views of human society; A Doll's House (1879) - Gh
non-Western Theatre
Problem plays
Henrik Ibsen
Denis Diderot
5. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
The Enlightenment
The Communist Manifesto
Kathakali
Wole Soyinka
6. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Dance of the Forest
Shakuntala
Bunraku movements
7. 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
Avant-Garde
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
3 components of Musical Scripts
Regional Theatre
8. 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
women could legally appear on stages in England
The Koran
overture
Bread and Puppet Theatre
9. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Straight Plays
Early European travelers and missionaries
Romantic Playwrights
Nell Gwynn
10. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Lyrics
overture
book musicals
11. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Off-Off-Broadway
Beaumarchais
box set
The Student Prince
12. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Enlightenment
Ritual Theatre
well-made plays
13. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Highly Stylized Gestures
Man and Superman (1903)
Music
Natyasastra
14. Built in Venice in 1637
First Public Opera House
Kafkaesque
Variety Show
Little Theatre Movement
15. 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
Book
Beaumarchais
Voltaire
Fourth Room
16. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Reprise
Intermezzi
Book
Bread and Puppet Theatre
17. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
rock musical
Man and Superman (1903)
Lyrics
Sentimental Comedies
18. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Alienation Effect
Off-Off-Broadway
Early European travelers and missionaries
Kathakali
19. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
The Black Crook
Minstrel Show
Comedy of Manners
Fourth Room
20. Writes the music
box set
Denis Diderot
Composer
Maxim Gorky
21. French philosopher often called the Father of the Romantic movement; argued that people could find happiness in a 'state of nature' and that they should learn from nature rather than the artificial and corrupted teachings of society
John Millington Synge
Oscar Wilde
Reprise
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
22. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
book musicals
Western Drama
Aristotelian
Comic opera
23. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Restoration
Ta'ziyeh
overture
24. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
box set
Man and Superman (1903)
Shakespeare's King John
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
25. Composed and produced by Bob Cole - lyrics by Billy Johnson; story of a con man and used minstrel stereotypes and spoofed Chinatown; in one scene a young black man sings about he and his date were denied entry to a nightclub cuz He was black and this
women could legally appear on stages in England
Symbolism
A Trip to Coontown
Broadway Shows
26. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Ki
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Operetta
27. A production of British actor Charles Kean; had realistic costumes - set and props that he had researched to make sure they were historically correct
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28. 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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29. Known for life-like sets that used hand-painted screens and gas-powered lighting effects to stage realistic sunrises and storm clouds; invented the DAGUERREO-TYPE - which was an early form of photography
Ritual Theatre
Louis Daguerre
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Melodrama
30. Thought that inner truths could be hinted at only through symbols; sought to replace the specific and concrete with the suggestive and metaphorical; usually had little plot or action and tended to baffle the audience
Non-Western Drama
Existentialism
Ziegfield Follies
Symbolism
31. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Music
Early European travelers and missionaries
Henrik Ibsen
Existentialism
32. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Kafkaesque
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
The Enlightenment
33. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Kathakali
Dadaism
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Happenings
34. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Emile Zola
Eugene O'Neill
Ta'ziyeh
A Dream Play (1902)
35. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Total Theatre
Ballad Operas
Romantic Playwrights
women could legally appear on stages in England
36. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Poetic Realism
Existential Absurdism
Antonin Artaud
Japanese Theatre
37. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Das Kapital
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Living Theatre
Natyasastra
38. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Precolonial African Theatre
Ki
Western Drama
The Student Prince
39. 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
Naturalistic Plays
Oscar Wilde
Lyricist
Precolonial African Theatre
40. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Comedy of Manners
Shakuntala
Romantics
Ha
41. 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
Straight Plays
The Student Prince
Book
Harold Pinter
42. 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
Eugene Ionesco
Kathakali
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Romantics
43. Type of Islamic theatre which is created by lighting two-dimensional figures and casting their shadows on a screen; the audience watches the silhouettes while a narrator tells a story
Friedrich Nietzsche
Emile Zola
Shadow Theatre
Das Kapital
44. 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
Anton Chekhov
Shakuntala
Expressionism
Symbolism
45. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Operatic Musicals
Jean-Paul Sartre
Variety Show
Lyrics
46. 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
Painted-face roles
Restoration
The Jazz Singer
Comedy of Manners
47. First part had musical numbers with little comic dialogue; second part was full of songs - dance and standup routines; third part featured a one-act play
The Adding Machine (1923)
book musicals
Eugene Ionesco
Minstrel Show Structure
48. 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
Kyu
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Opera
musical
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
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Gotthold Lessing
Minstrel Show
Anton Chekhov
50. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Operetta
Burlesque
Henrik Ibsen
musical