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Theatre Basics
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1. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Ballad Operas
Lorraine Handsberry
musical
2. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
First Public Opera House
Ta'ziyeh
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Daguerreotype
3. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Lorraine Handsberry
Noh drama and Kabuki
Naturalism
Gotthold Lessing
4. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ki
Ritual Theatre
Aphra Behn
Henrik Ibsen
5. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Japanese Theatre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
rock musical
Showstopper
6. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
Early European travelers and missionaries
Maxim Gorky
Revue (Musical Review)
7. 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
rock musical
book musicals
Goethe
Regional Theatre
8. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
The Enlightenment
Eugene O'Neill
box set
9. Proclaimed 'God is dead...and we have killed him.'; felt taht absence of God was a tragedy - but believed human beings needed to accept the tragedy and move forward in a world that was unjust and meaningless
well-made plays
Ta'ziyeh
Minstrel Show Structure
Friedrich Nietzsche
10. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Off-Off-Broadway
Avant-Garde
Restoration
Nickelodeons
11. Book - music - and lyrics
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
3 components of Musical Scripts
Emile Zola
Mie pose
12. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Noh drama
Eugene Ionesco
Little Theatre Movement
13. 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
The Koran
Ki
Shakespeare's King John
Romantic Playwrights
14. 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
Off-Off-Broadway
Voltaire
Surrealism
The Interpretation of Dreams
15. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Revue (Musical Review)
dance musicals
Samuel Beckett
Shakespeare's King John
16. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
The Koran
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
17. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God; not a negative - for without God humans can create their own existences - purpose and meaning
Minstrel Show Structure
Existentialism
Shavian Comedies
Eugene O'Neill
18. 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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19. 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)
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20. 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
Surrealism
The Communist Manifesto
book musicals
Shimpa
21. 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
Variety Show
Jo
Revue (Musical Review)
The Living Theatre
22. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Bertolt Brecht
Regional Theatre
The Living Theatre
Ha
23. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
musical
Librettist
Melodrama
24. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Fourth Room
non-Western Theatre
The Adding Machine (1923)
A Trip to Coontown
25. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Fourth Room
Harold Pinter
Jukebox musicals
Faust
26. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Anton Chekhov
Melodrama
3 components of Musical Scripts
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
27. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Operetta
Man and Superman (1903)
Ziegfield Follies
28. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Shakespeare's King John
Happenings
Nell Gwynn
Das Kapital
29. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Sean O'Casey
non-Western Theatre
30. 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
Aphra Behn
Symbolism
Surrealism
Noh drama
31. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shavian Comedies
Shakuntala
Das Kapital
Maxim Gorky
32. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Emile Zola
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Lyrics
Fatalist Absurdism
33. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Daguerreotype
Shimpa
Hilarious Absurdism
34. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
women could legally appear on stages in England
Lorraine Handsberry
The Origin of the Cakewalk
35. 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
Das Kapital
Opera
Romantics
Sanskrit Drama
36. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Romantic Playwrights
Painted-face roles
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
37. Earliest form for photography
Vaudeville
Total Theatre
Daguerreotype
Problem plays
38. 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)
Samuel Beckett
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
musical comedy
Naturalistic Plays
39. 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
box set
Das Kapital
Minstrel Show Structure
Problem plays
40. Based off the idea that before a problem can be solved - society must first understand that the problem exists; 'attack the message - not the messenger'
Problem plays
First Public Opera House
Wole Soyinka
Harold Pinter
41. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
onnagata
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Reprise
42. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Antonin Artaud
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Faust
Broadway Shows
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. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Opera
Surrealism
women could legally appear on stages in England
45. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Das Kapital
Minstrel Show Structure
Shavian Comedies
46. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Africa
Communists took control
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
47. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Naturalistic Plays
Natyasastra
Romantic Playwrights
women could legally appear on stages in England
48. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Aristotelian
The Jazz Singer
Book
Denis Diderot
49. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Bunraku movements
Ha
Operatic Musicals
Beaumarchais
50. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Revue (Musical Review)
Broadway Shows
Daguerreotype
Sanskrit Drama