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Theatre Basics
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1. Sarcastic label of Scribe's plays; the sympathetic protagonist suffers at the hands of an evil antagonist in the course of intense action - suspense - and contrived play devices; ending is always happy and the loose ends are neatly tied up
well-made plays
Opera
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Painted-face roles
2. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Poetic Realism
Romantic Playwrights
Music
3. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Peking Opera
Straight Plays
A Trip to Coontown
Western Drama
4. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Louis Daguerre
Operatic Musicals
Domestic Tragedies
5. 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
Kordian (1962)
Islamic Culture
book musicals
Beaumarchais
6. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Precolonial African Theatre
Broadway Shows
Sean O'Casey
Restoration
7. 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
Faust
Vaudeville
Total Theatre
Gotthold Lessing
8. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Alienation Effect
Dadaism
Little Theatre Movement
Harold Pinter
9. Earliest form for photography
Gotthold Lessing
Daguerreotype
Intermezzi
Bertolt Brecht
10. Studied the history of class conflict
The Koran
overture
Dance of the Forest
The Communist Manifesto
11. '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
book musicals
Goethe
Henrik Ibsen
Broadway Shows
12. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Operatic Musicals
Ki
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Anton Chekhov
13. 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
Characters in the Peking Opera
Aphra Behn
Expressionism
The Living Theatre
14. 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
Kafkaesque
Romantic Playwrights
Ha
Realism
15. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Restoration
Harold Pinter
Showstopper
Book
16. 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
Eugene Ionesco
Naturalism
17. Book - music - and lyrics
musical
3 components of Musical Scripts
A Trip to Coontown
Early European travelers and missionaries
18. 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)
Jo
Man and Superman (1903)
musical comedy
George Bernard Shaw
19. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Ballad Operas
musical comedy
Faust
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
20. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Natyasastra
Jo
21. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
Absurdism
Existentialism
Little Theatre Movement
22. Sarcastic label of Scribe's plays; the sympathetic protagonist suffers at the hands of an evil antagonist in the course of intense action - suspense - and contrived play devices; ending is always happy and the loose ends are neatly tied up
Friedrich Nietzsche
well-made plays
Painted-face roles
Shimpa
23. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Librettist
Precolonial African Theatre
Fourth Room
Emile Zola
24. 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
Shakespeare's King John
Restoration
Sean O'Casey
Beaumarchais
25. 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
Kordian (1962)
Natyasastra
Minstrel Show
Voltaire
26. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Minstrel Show Structure
Islamic Culture
dance musicals
27. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Kafkaesque
Happenings
Operatic Musicals
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
28. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
A Dream Play (1902)
overture
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Jukebox musicals
29. 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
George Bernard Shaw
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Vaudeville
Gotthold Lessing
30. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Ballad Operas
William Fox Talbot
The Koran
Maxim Gorky
31. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Composer
Ballad Operas
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Romantic Playwrights
32. Plays without music
Straight Plays
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Symbolism
33. 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
Hilarious Absurdism
dance musicals
Existentialism
Shavian Comedies
34. The orchestrated melodies
Music
Africa
John Millington Synge
Painted-face roles
35. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Henrik Ibsen
Existentialism
dance musicals
Shavian Comedies
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
Problem plays
Romantics
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Verfremdung
37. A German poet - director and playwright who challenged traditional ideas about theatre; became a communist after watching policement shoot 4 unarmed civilians; The Life of Galileo (1938) - Mother Courage and her Children (1939) & The Caucasian Chalk
Comic opera
Straight Plays
Bertolt Brecht
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
38. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Dadaism
Fatalist Absurdism
Burlesque
Oscar Wilde
39. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Oscar Wilde
Restoration
40. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Nell Gwynn
Theatre of Cruelty
41. Three parts of a Noh play
Nell Gwynn
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Louis Daguerre
Melodrama
42. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Minstrel Show
Andre Antoine
Operatic Musicals
Sentimental Comedies
43. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Communists took control
John Millington Synge
Kyu
Islamic Culture
44. 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
The Student Prince
William Fox Talbot
Total Theatre
Shadow Theatre
45. 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
Denis Diderot
Variety Show
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
The Communist Manifesto
46. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Maxim Gorky
Nell Gwynn
Oscar Wilde
47. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Fatalist Absurdism
Kathakali
Noh drama and Kabuki
non-Western Theatre
48. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Samuel Beckett
Comic opera
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Jo
49. 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
book musicals
The Communist Manifesto
Jo
Problem plays
50. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Noh drama
Realism
Noh drama and Kabuki
A Trip to Coontown
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