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Theatre Basics
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1. One of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment - French poet - essayist - and playwright whose writing often got him in trouble with the church; built a theatre on his own estate so he could freely present his plays
Louis Daguerre
Voltaire
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Lyrics
2. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Jo
Opera
Sentimental Comedies
Ken Saro-Wiwa
3. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Opera
Painted-face roles
Ballad Operas
Wole Soyinka
4. 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
box set
Denis Diderot
Sanskrit Drama
Chinese Theatre
5. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Emile Zola
Performance Art
Denis Diderot
6. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Comic opera
Total Theatre
Opera
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
7. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Regional Theatre
Total Theatre
Minstrel Show
8. A production of British actor Charles Kean; had realistic costumes - set and props that he had researched to make sure they were historically correct
9. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Librettist
Ha
Faust
Fourth Room
10. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Happenings
Performance Art
Fatalist Absurdism
11. 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
Broadway Shows
Fourth Room
Denis Diderot
Bread and Puppet Theatre
12. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
13. 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
Peking Opera
Kabuki
Nickelodeons
Minstrel Show Structure
14. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Little Theatre Movement
3 components of Musical Scripts
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Highly Stylized Gestures
15. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Naturalistic Plays
Lorraine Handsberry
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Theatre of Cruelty
16. The orchestrated melodies
Music
Shadow Theatre
Blaise Pascal
Opera
17. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Melodrama
Lorraine Handsberry
overture
18. 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
Vaudeville
Ki
Samuel Beckett
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
19. 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
Painted-face roles
Ta'ziyeh
Realism
Kafkaesque
20. First part of a Noh Play - usually a chance meeting between two characters - introductions are made and the characters engage in a question-and-answer sequence that reveals the protagonist's concern
Non-Western Drama
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Jo
Daguerreotype
21. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Man and Superman (1903)
Sentimental Comedies
Henrik Ibsen
22. First part of a Noh Play - usually a chance meeting between two characters - introductions are made and the characters engage in a question-and-answer sequence that reveals the protagonist's concern
Romantics
Realism
Jo
Book
23. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Kafkaesque
Anton Chekhov
Verfremdung
book musicals
24. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Noh drama and Kabuki
3 components of Musical Scripts
Aphra Behn
Librettist
25. 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
Fatalist Absurdism
Faust
Chinese Theatre
Mie pose
26. 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
Performance Art
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Lorraine Handsberry
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
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
Kafkaesque
Intermezzi
overture
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
28. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Eugene Ionesco
Off-Off-Broadway
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Restoration
29. 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
Romantics
A Trip to Coontown
Verfremdung
Oscar Wilde
30. 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
Ziegfield Follies
The Koran
Happenings
Dance of the Forest
31. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
A Trip to Coontown
Man and Superman (1903)
Denis Diderot
32. Most famous of the absurdist playwrights; best considered a fatalist - although work is sometimes hilarious and can ask existential questions; Endgame (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1961); Waiting for Godot (1953)
The Living Theatre
Painted-face roles
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Samuel Beckett
33. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Wole Soyinka
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Shimpa
Dance of the Forest
34. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Ha
Sanskrit Drama
The Jazz Singer
Shadow Theatre
35. One of the most valuable historical records of Indian theatre; an encyclopedic book of dramatic theory and practice; has 37 chapters and covers every aspect of classical Indian drama - also a treatise on dramatic theory and philosophy - states that t
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Natyasastra
Ballad Operas
Existentialism
36. 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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
William Fox Talbot
A Trip to Coontown
37. 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
38. Built in Venice in 1637
Daguerreotype
First Public Opera House
Problem plays
Noh drama and Kabuki
39. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wole Soyinka
Voltaire
40. No spoken dialogue - entirely sung; comes from the Latin word 'work' and may have originally meant 'works in music' or 'musical works for the stage'; first operas were in Italy in late 1500s
Noh drama and Kabuki
Faust
Opera
Shadow Theatre
41. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)
42. 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
Voltaire
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Jazz Singer
Reprise
43. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Alienation Effect
Characters in the Peking Opera
musical comedy
Romantic Playwrights
44. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Romantics
Minstrel Show
Friedrich Nietzsche
Off-Off-Broadway
45. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Lyricist
The Black Crook
A Trip to Coontown
Samuel Beckett
46. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Bunraku movements
Das Kapital
Absurdism
Reprise
47. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Das Kapital
non-Western Theatre
Straight Plays
Intermezzi
48. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
Jean-Paul Sartre
Dadaism
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Vaudeville
49. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
50. 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
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Surrealism
Opera
Lorraine Handsberry