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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Noh drama
Shakespeare's King John
Eugene Ionesco
Friedrich Nietzsche
2. 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
Absurdism
Gotthold Lessing
George Bernard Shaw
Vaudeville
3. 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
Ballad Operas
The Interpretation of Dreams
Anton Chekhov
Operetta
4. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
musical
Opera
Gotthold Lessing
Communists took control
5. 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
Book
Realism
Precolonial African Theatre
6. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Japanese Theatre
Antonin Artaud
Fatalist Absurdism
Peking Opera
7. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Shakuntala
Kyu
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Enlightenment
8. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Existential Absurdism
non-Western Theatre
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Fatalist Absurdism
9. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Ziegfield Follies
Maxim Gorky
A Dream Play (1902)
Jukebox musicals
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
Bertolt Brecht
Louis Daguerre
Nell Gwynn
Goethe
11. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Peking Opera
The Black Crook
overture
Shakuntala
12. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Melodrama
Shakespeare's King John
A Dream Play (1902)
13. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
Lyricist
The Enlightenment
Ha
14. A sudden - striking pose (often with their eyes crossed - chin sharply turned - and big toe pointed towards the sky) in Kabuki accompanied by several powerful beats of wooden clappers
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Mie pose
Total Theatre
Africa
15. The orchestrated melodies
Music
Antonin Artaud
Performance Art
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
16. 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
Daguerreotype
Precolonial African Theatre
Kathakali
Problem plays
17. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Das Kapital
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Eugene O'Neill
18. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
musical comedy
Showstopper
Aphra Behn
Ziegfield Follies
19. 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
Jo
Precolonial African Theatre
Vaudeville
Off-Off-Broadway
20. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emile Zola
Verfremdung
Early European travelers and missionaries
21. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Bread and Puppet Theatre
The Adding Machine (1923)
Sanskrit Drama
22. 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
Lyricist
Alienation Effect
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Koran
23. 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
Off-Off-Broadway
Wole Soyinka
Gotthold Lessing
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
24. 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
Domestic Tragedies
Total Theatre
book musicals
Denis Diderot
25. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Shadow Theatre
musical comedy
First Public Opera House
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
26. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Avant-Garde
Mie pose
Realism
Broadway Shows
27. 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
Natyasastra
Naturalism
The Adding Machine (1923)
Louis Daguerre
28. 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
Samuel Beckett
Shadow Theatre
Eugene O'Neill
29. Result of western influence - a toned down version of Kabuki - told stories of everyday life - particularly those of women - women played women's parts (whereas Kabuki was all male)
Shimpa
Oscar Wilde
Vaudeville
Operetta
30. 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
The Student Prince
The Jazz Singer
Music
A Trip to Coontown
31. 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
The Adding Machine (1923)
Das Kapital
Beaumarchais
Naturalism
32. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
33. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
women could legally appear on stages in England
Revue (Musical Review)
Mie pose
34. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Living Theatre
Gotthold Lessing
Japanese Theatre
Aphra Behn
35. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Absurdism
Operetta
Daguerreotype
Melodrama
36. 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
Oscar Wilde
Characters in the Peking Opera
Beaumarchais
37. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
dance musicals
Western Drama
Andre Antoine
Aristotelian
38. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Dance of the Forest
Shakuntala
dance musicals
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
39. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
Regional Theatre
Total Theatre
Andre Antoine
40. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
musical comedy
Bread and Puppet Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
41. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Man and Superman (1903)
Sentimental Comedies
Domestic Tragedies
Straight Plays
42. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Anton Chekhov
Blaise Pascal
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
43. 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)
Ta'ziyeh
Reprise
Goethe
Operetta
44. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Off Broadway
Ballad Operas
Noh drama and Kabuki
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
45. 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
Regional Theatre
Oscar Wilde
Precolonial African Theatre
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
46. Earliest form for photography
Revue (Musical Review)
Daguerreotype
Man and Superman (1903)
Jukebox musicals
47. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Bertolt Brecht
Theatre of Cruelty
Avant-Garde
48. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
well-made plays
Verfremdung
Sentimental Comedies
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
49. Would agitate the masses - attack the spectators' sensibilities and purge people of their destructive tendencies; wanted stylized - ritualized performances - not realism - which they felt restricted the theatre to the study of psychological problems
Man and Superman (1903)
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Theatre of Cruelty
The Interpretation of Dreams
50. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Noh drama and Kabuki
Ritual Theatre
Daguerreotype