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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Kordian (1962)
Das Kapital
Symbolism
Total Theatre
2. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
Realism
Natyasastra
Music
Eugene O'Neill
3. Records of this type of theatre are fragmentary - but we do know that it grew out of regional religious rituals related to Confucianism - Taoism - and Buddhism - and ritual dances performed during the Shang dynasty
Das Kapital
Vaudeville
Precolonial African Theatre
Chinese Theatre
4. 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
Mie pose
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Trip to Coontown
5. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Hilarious Absurdism
musical
Andre Antoine
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
6. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Shakuntala
Intermezzi
well-made plays
7. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
Alienation Effect
The Black Crook
Man and Superman (1903)
8. The sung words
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
A Dream Play (1902)
Lyrics
Early European travelers and missionaries
9. 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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10. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Beaumarchais
The Koran
Bertolt Brecht
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
11. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Dance of the Forest
Jo
non-Western Theatre
Ha
12. 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
Off Broadway
Surrealism
Straight Plays
First Public Opera House
13. A robust and spectacular version of Noh; named after the characters for 'song' - 'dance' - and 'skill'; created by a woman named Okuni - owner of a brothel
Kabuki
The Black Crook
Blaise Pascal
Opera
14. Most famous surrealist and was a French writer and director; studied Asian religions - mysticism - and ancient cultures; declared theatre should should wake the nerves and heart; argued that proscenium arch theatres create a barrier between the audie
Antonin Artaud
Dance of the Forest
Burlesque
Minstrel Show
15. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Gotthold Lessing
The Jazz Singer
Kabuki
Composer
16. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
musical
The Black Crook
Fatalist Absurdism
Lorraine Handsberry
17. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Showstopper
Shimpa
Maxim Gorky
Beaumarchais
18. Writes the music
John Millington Synge
Operetta
Composer
Existentialism
19. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Alienation Effect
Shimpa
Burlesque
non-Western Theatre
20. 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
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Comic opera
Precolonial African Theatre
well-made plays
21. Earliest form for photography
Beaumarchais
Broadway Shows
Aristotelian
Daguerreotype
22. 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
Revue (Musical Review)
Emile Zola
Comic opera
Gotthold Lessing
23. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Restoration
Shavian Comedies
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Comic opera
24. 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
Sanskrit Drama
book musicals
Theatre of Cruelty
Oscar Wilde
25. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Bertolt Brecht
Avant-Garde
Lorraine Handsberry
Anton Chekhov
26. 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
Non-Western Drama
Nell Gwynn
Opera
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
27. 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
Painted-face roles
Aphra Behn
Performance Art
Problem plays
28. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Fourth Room
The Interpretation of Dreams
Das Kapital
Aristotelian
29. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Eugene O'Neill
The Student Prince
Hilarious Absurdism
Maxim Gorky
30. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Antonin Artaud
Fourth Room
Off Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
31. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
The Jazz Singer
women could legally appear on stages in England
The Koran
32. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Chinese Theatre
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
William Fox Talbot
Aristotelian
33. 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)
Dance of the Forest
Henrik Ibsen
Samuel Beckett
Shimpa
34. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Variety Show
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ballad Operas
Operetta
35. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
Vaudeville
A Trip to Coontown
Verfremdung
36. 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
Western Drama
Goethe
Little Theatre Movement
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
37. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Emile Zola
Eugene Ionesco
Total Theatre
Eugene O'Neill
38. 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
Maxim Gorky
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Jukebox musicals
Little Theatre Movement
39. 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
Ki
Reprise
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ziegfield Follies
40. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Mie pose
Non-Western Drama
The Origin of the Cakewalk
41. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Peking Opera
Ziegfield Follies
Maxim Gorky
Wole Soyinka
42. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
3 components of Musical Scripts
Shakuntala
Operetta
Noh drama
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
Shadow Theatre
Peking Opera
Alienation Effect
Revue (Musical Review)
44. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Opera
Chinese Theatre
Daguerreotype
musical
45. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Noh drama and Kabuki
Kordian (1962)
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Blaise Pascal
46. 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
Naturalistic Plays
Shavian Comedies
Ballad Operas
Ta'ziyeh
47. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Showstopper
Avant-Garde
Beaumarchais
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
48. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Kafkaesque
Fourth Room
Samuel Beckett
49. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Shavian Comedies
Kyu
Comic opera
50. Three parts of a Noh play
Japanese Theatre
William Fox Talbot
Sentimental Comedies
Jo - Ha - and Kyu