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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Bertolt Brecht
The Student Prince
dance musicals
Africa
2. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Shakuntala
Lorraine Handsberry
Shavian Comedies
3. 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
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Expressionism
Daguerreotype
4. 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
Restoration
Das Kapital
Painted-face roles
Precolonial African Theatre
5. 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
Reprise
Antonin Artaud
Librettist
Opera
6. Studied the history of class conflict
Variety Show
The Communist Manifesto
Kabuki
The Enlightenment
7. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Ballad Operas
Off-Off-Broadway
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man and Superman (1903)
8. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Minstrel Show Structure
First Public Opera House
non-Western Theatre
Islamic Culture
9. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Showstopper
Verfremdung
Communists took control
10. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
The Koran
Voltaire
Dance of the Forest
11. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Painted-face roles
Samuel Beckett
Characters in the Peking Opera
12. 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
Aristotelian
Shavian Comedies
Kabuki
Africa
13. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Samuel Beckett
non-Western Theatre
Kyu
Peking Opera
14. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Operatic Musicals
The Living Theatre
Shadow Theatre
15. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Aphra Behn
Reprise
Jo
Straight Plays
16. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Regional Theatre
A Trip to Coontown
Jukebox musicals
George Bernard Shaw
17. 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
The Communist Manifesto
Oscar Wilde
Anton Chekhov
Poetic Realism
18. 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
Little Theatre Movement
Characters in the Peking Opera
Surrealism
William Fox Talbot
19. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Domestic Tragedies
Harold Pinter
Noh drama
Islamic Culture
20. 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
Non-Western Drama
Realism
Poetic Realism
Naturalism
21. 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
Domestic Tragedies
Composer
Expressionism
Faust
22. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Opera
book musicals
Kordian (1962)
women could legally appear on stages in England
23. The orchestrated melodies
Romantics
Music
Ballad Operas
Dance of the Forest
24. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Japanese Theatre
The Black Crook
Naturalism
Shavian Comedies
25. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Romantic Playwrights
Hilarious Absurdism
Beaumarchais
Faust
26. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
well-made plays
Sanskrit Drama
Burlesque
27. 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
Gotthold Lessing
William Fox Talbot
Oscar Wilde
The Enlightenment
28. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Chinese Theatre
Ki
Painted-face roles
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
29. 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
Alienation Effect
The Student Prince
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Performance Art
30. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Theatre of Cruelty
well-made plays
Straight Plays
31. 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)
3 components of Musical Scripts
Samuel Beckett
Daguerreotype
Early European travelers and missionaries
32. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Opera
Non-Western Drama
Hilarious Absurdism
Melodrama
33. 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)
Characters in the Peking Opera
Shimpa
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Existential Absurdism
34. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
The Koran
Book
musical
A Dream Play (1902)
35. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Romantics
Islamic Culture
Performance Art
Noh drama
36. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Andre Antoine
Denis Diderot
Naturalism
William Fox Talbot
37. 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
dance musicals
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Precolonial African Theatre
Operatic Musicals
38. What western theatre is often called:
Faust
The Student Prince
Aristotelian
Precolonial African Theatre
39. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Alienation Effect
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Communists took control
Das Kapital
40. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Romantics
Lorraine Handsberry
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Operetta
41. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Goethe
Opera
Showstopper
Kordian (1962)
42. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Poetic Realism
Dance of the Forest
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Expressionism
43. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Variety Show
3 components of Musical Scripts
Bunraku movements
Surrealism
44. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Restoration
Regional Theatre
Reprise
Natyasastra
45. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
The Adding Machine (1923)
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Melodrama
Ritual Theatre
46. 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
Domestic Tragedies
Antonin Artaud
Straight Plays
Kathakali
47. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Communists took control
The Koran
Comic opera
Early European travelers and missionaries
48. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Living Theatre
Comic opera
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
A Trip to Coontown
49. Built in Venice in 1637
First Public Opera House
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Music
Chinese Theatre
50. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
William Fox Talbot
The Living Theatre
Africa