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Theatre Basics
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1. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Kathakali
Minstrel Show
Africa
Aristotelian
2. Plays without music
Straight Plays
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Antonin Artaud
Naturalism
3. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Goethe
book musicals
Chinese Theatre
Western Drama
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
The Jazz Singer
Aphra Behn
Painted-face roles
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
5. Only cost a nickel
Japanese Theatre
Absurdism
Nickelodeons
Communists took control
6. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Japanese Theatre
Das Kapital
Characters in the Peking Opera
The Enlightenment
7. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Painted-face roles
well-made plays
Highly Stylized Gestures
Lyrics
8. What western theatre is often called:
Aristotelian
Precolonial African Theatre
Shadow Theatre
Mie pose
9. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
Operetta
women could legally appear on stages in England
rock musical
10. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Kabuki
Existential Absurdism
Librettist
Peking Opera
11. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Vaudeville
Minstrel Show
Nell Gwynn
Regional Theatre
12. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
The Enlightenment
Librettist
Precolonial African Theatre
Variety Show
13. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
First Public Opera House
rock musical
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Dance of the Forest
14. 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
Japanese Theatre
Avant-Garde
Naturalism
15. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
well-made plays
Goethe
Composer
The Origin of the Cakewalk
16. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Western Drama
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
The Adding Machine (1923)
Regional Theatre
17. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Fatalist Absurdism
Das Kapital
Kyu
Sanskrit Drama
18. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Beaumarchais
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
The Living Theatre
Bread and Puppet Theatre
19. 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
Happenings
Naturalistic Plays
Mie pose
Dance of the Forest
20. The orchestrated melodies
Music
Revue (Musical Review)
Burlesque
Regional Theatre
21. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Voltaire
The Communist Manifesto
Goethe
22. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
Maxim Gorky
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
23. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Chinese Theatre
Peking Opera
Ziegfield Follies
24. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Shadow Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
Daguerreotype
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
25. 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
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Ziegfield Follies
Regional Theatre
Naturalistic Plays
26. 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
Harold Pinter
William Fox Talbot
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
27. 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
musical comedy
The Student Prince
Off-Off-Broadway
Little Theatre Movement
28. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Lorraine Handsberry
John Millington Synge
Japanese Theatre
overture
29. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Lorraine Handsberry
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Highly Stylized Gestures
30. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Noh drama
Shimpa
Minstrel Show Structure
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
31. 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
Romantic Playwrights
The Interpretation of Dreams
Antonin Artaud
32. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Lyricist
Existentialism
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Ritual Theatre
33. '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
Ziegfield Follies
Shadow Theatre
Characters in the Peking Opera
Henrik Ibsen
34. 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
Faust
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Surrealism
Symbolism
35. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Chinese Theatre
musical comedy
Reprise
36. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Broadway Shows
Ziegfield Follies
Harold Pinter
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
37. 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
Shadow Theatre
Nell Gwynn
Chinese Theatre
rock musical
38. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Islamic Culture
William Fox Talbot
onnagata
Absurdism
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
Blaise Pascal
Ziegfield Follies
The Student Prince
Wole Soyinka
40. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Verfremdung
Western Drama
non-Western Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
41. Wrote 'high comedies' which were cerebral socially relevant plays that had an intellectual scope so vast they forced audiences to reassess their values; Man and Superman (1903) & The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
George Bernard Shaw
Aphra Behn
Shadow Theatre
The Black Crook
42. 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
Happenings
Louis Daguerre
Poetic Realism
Ballad Operas
43. A production of British actor Charles Kean; had realistic costumes - set and props that he had researched to make sure they were historically correct
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44. 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)
Andre Antoine
Samuel Beckett
Sanskrit Drama
Intermezzi
45. 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
William Fox Talbot
Vaudeville
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Aristotelian
46. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
Librettist
Revue (Musical Review)
Ritual Theatre
47. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Revue (Musical Review)
Kyu
The Enlightenment
Naturalism
48. Comedies forced Victorian society to reexamine its hypocrisies; Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) - A WOman of No Importance (1893) - An Ideal Husband (1894); advocated 'art for art's sake'; The Importance of Being Ernest
Emile Zola
Noh drama
well-made plays
Oscar Wilde
49. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Verfremdung
onnagata
Opera
Nell Gwynn
50. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Minstrel Show
Revue (Musical Review)