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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Comedy of Manners
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Poetic Realism
Music
2. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Poetic Realism
Burlesque
Precolonial African Theatre
Verfremdung
3. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
The Jazz Singer
Western Drama
4. 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
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Book
Eugene O'Neill
5. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Friedrich Nietzsche
Japanese Theatre
Avant-Garde
Verfremdung
6. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Little Theatre Movement
Chinese Theatre
The Adding Machine (1923)
Henrik Ibsen
7. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Shakespeare's King John
Reprise
Off Broadway
Man and Superman (1903)
8. 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
Noh drama
Faust
Vaudeville
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
9. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
First Public Opera House
Book
Off-Off-Broadway
Japanese Theatre
10. Only cost a nickel
Eugene Ionesco
Nickelodeons
Characters in the Peking Opera
The Jazz Singer
11. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Noh drama
Ha
First Public Opera House
Western Drama
12. '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
Bertolt Brecht
Henrik Ibsen
Comedy of Manners
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
13. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Western Drama
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Verfremdung
14. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
The Black Crook
Blaise Pascal
Kyu
15. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Shakuntala
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Lyrics
Jukebox musicals
16. 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
The Student Prince
Jukebox musicals
Regional Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
17. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Black Crook
Avant-Garde
Domestic Tragedies
18. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Expressionism
Fatalist Absurdism
Samuel Beckett
Jo
19. The orchestrated melodies
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Ritual Theatre
Music
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
20. 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
Kordian (1962)
Opera
Natyasastra
21. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Jukebox musicals
Nell Gwynn
Fatalist Absurdism
Problem plays
22. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Eugene O'Neill
Dadaism
Ki
Burlesque
23. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
book musicals
Domestic Tragedies
musical
well-made plays
24. A repetition of the song - sometimes with new lyrics - sometimes with the same lyrics but with new meaning or subtext in order to make a dramatic point
Alienation Effect
Reprise
Noh drama and Kabuki
Peking Opera
25. 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
Music
Wole Soyinka
rock musical
Comedy of Manners
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)
Operetta
Jo
dance musicals
Japanese Theatre
27. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Lyricist
Precolonial African Theatre
First Public Opera House
Happenings
28. 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
Early European travelers and missionaries
Music
book musicals
29. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Africa
Harold Pinter
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Western Drama
30. 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
Absurdism
Regional Theatre
Total Theatre
Dadaism
31. 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
Straight Plays
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Verfremdung
Little Theatre Movement
32. 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
Anton Chekhov
Performance Art
Off Broadway
Islamic Culture
33. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Operetta
Nell Gwynn
John Millington Synge
Andre Antoine
34. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Characters in the Peking Opera
William Fox Talbot
Ha
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
35. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Comic opera
Aphra Behn
Total Theatre
Antonin Artaud
36. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God; not a negative - for without God humans can create their own existences - purpose and meaning
Symbolism
Melodrama
Existentialism
overture
37. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Melodrama
Non-Western Drama
Noh drama
Regional Theatre
38. The orchestrated melodies
musical
Music
Composer
First Public Opera House
39. 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
Kafkaesque
Aphra Behn
Faust
Shadow Theatre
40. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Chinese Theatre
book musicals
Variety Show
Noh drama and Kabuki
41. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Ha
well-made plays
non-Western Theatre
Romantics
42. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Shakuntala
George Bernard Shaw
Daguerreotype
Off Broadway
43. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Sanskrit Drama
Broadway Shows
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
musical comedy
44. Writes the book
Straight Plays
Librettist
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Early European travelers and missionaries
45. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Surrealism
Andre Antoine
3 components of Musical Scripts
Characters in the Peking Opera
46. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
dance musicals
Sentimental Comedies
Faust
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
47. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
Beaumarchais
Happenings
Domestic Tragedies
48. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Broadway Shows
book musicals
Restoration
Daguerreotype
49. 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
Expressionism
Surrealism
Lorraine Handsberry
Sean O'Casey
50. A permanent - professional theatre outside NYC; founded in 1947 by Margo Jones; stage new plays alongside commercial hits and historical plays; appeal to the intellectual audiences that Hollywood seldom serves
Kabuki
Antonin Artaud
Regional Theatre
dance musicals