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Theatre Basics
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1. 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)
First Public Opera House
Jo
Operetta
Kyu
2. Built in Venice in 1637
First Public Opera House
Noh drama
Naturalistic Plays
Henrik Ibsen
3. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Dance of the Forest
Showstopper
The Enlightenment
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
4. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Theatre of Cruelty
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Lorraine Handsberry
Romantic Playwrights
5. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
Voltaire
Bertolt Brecht
Denis Diderot
6. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
William Fox Talbot
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Theatre of Cruelty
Bread and Puppet Theatre
7. Built in Venice in 1637
Jean-Paul Sartre
First Public Opera House
Shakuntala
Kafkaesque
8. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Maxim Gorky
Book
Realism
9. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Existential Absurdism
Book
Lyrics
10. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Kordian (1962)
Lorraine Handsberry
Mie pose
Alienation Effect
11. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Ritual Theatre
Denis Diderot
Showstopper
12. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Operatic Musicals
Beaumarchais
3 components of Musical Scripts
The Interpretation of Dreams
13. 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)
Avant-Garde
George Bernard Shaw
Kabuki
Samuel Beckett
14. 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
Ballad Operas
Anton Chekhov
Book
Nell Gwynn
15. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Happenings
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Sanskrit Drama
Intermezzi
16. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Opera
Maxim Gorky
The Enlightenment
A Trip to Coontown
17. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Existentialism
Operetta
Naturalistic Plays
Jukebox musicals
18. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
dance musicals
Realism
Nell Gwynn
The Communist Manifesto
19. 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
Eugene Ionesco
Ki
Bread and Puppet Theatre
20. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Mie pose
Librettist
Peking Opera
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Expressionism
Verfremdung
Maxim Gorky
22. Plays without music
Happenings
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Denis Diderot
Straight Plays
23. 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
Faust
Ha
Fatalist Absurdism
Sanskrit Drama
24. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
Shadow Theatre
Composer
Ritual Theatre
Dadaism
25. 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
Sean O'Casey
Wole Soyinka
The Enlightenment
Happenings
26. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
women could legally appear on stages in England
Intermezzi
rock musical
Realism
27. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Samuel Beckett
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Minstrel Show Structure
Communists took control
28. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Das Kapital
Gotthold Lessing
musical comedy
29. A dialogue that captures the incoherence - broken language - and pauses of modern speech; usually marked by surreal distortion and impending danger; from writing of Franz Kafka
Kabuki
Kafkaesque
Comedy of Manners
Harold Pinter
30. 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
The Communist Manifesto
Comic opera
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
31. 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
Sentimental Comedies
Symbolism
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Total Theatre
32. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Operatic Musicals
Vaudeville
Verfremdung
33. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
Denis Diderot
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
women could legally appear on stages in England
Noh drama
34. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Western Drama
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Fatalist Absurdism
musical comedy
35. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
musical comedy
Communists took control
Off Broadway
Friedrich Nietzsche
36. 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
Variety Show
Variety Show
overture
Denis Diderot
37. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Precolonial African Theatre
Lyricist
Das Kapital
Faust
38. 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
Book
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Existentialism
Revue (Musical Review)
39. Composed and produced by Bob Cole - lyrics by Billy Johnson; story of a con man and used minstrel stereotypes and spoofed Chinatown; in one scene a young black man sings about he and his date were denied entry to a nightclub cuz He was black and this
Louis Daguerre
Naturalism
Precolonial African Theatre
A Trip to Coontown
40. 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
Regional Theatre
Shakuntala
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
41. 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)
Shimpa
Samuel Beckett
Shadow Theatre
box set
42. 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
Ziegfield Follies
Oscar Wilde
The Interpretation of Dreams
Maxim Gorky
43. 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
Japanese Theatre
Chinese Theatre
Jo
Broadway Shows
44. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
First Public Opera House
Kathakali
Performance Art
Operetta
45. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Dadaism
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
The Student Prince
The Communist Manifesto
46. The orchestrated melodies
Jo
The Living Theatre
Music
Shimpa
47. Most popular type of theatre during the Restoration; often featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification - bedroom escapades - and humankind's unrefined nature when it comes to sex
Alienation Effect
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Problem plays
Comedy of Manners
48. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Total Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
Blaise Pascal
Shakuntala
49. 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
Samuel Beckett
Mie pose
Precolonial African Theatre
Kathakali
50. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Sean O'Casey
Samuel Beckett
Andre Antoine
Avant-Garde