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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
Kabuki
Kathakali
3 components of Musical Scripts
The Student Prince
2. 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
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Friedrich Nietzsche
onnagata
Man and Superman (1903)
3. 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
Regional Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
Eugene Ionesco
Total Theatre
4. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Sentimental Comedies
Shimpa
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
5. Writes the lyrics
Shakuntala
Realism
Kyu
Lyricist
6. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Librettist
Shakuntala
Shavian Comedies
Composer
7. 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
Verfremdung
Book
Minstrel Show Structure
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
8. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Ziegfield Follies
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Characters in the Peking Opera
The Adding Machine (1923)
9. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Fatalist Absurdism
Africa
Existential Absurdism
Melodrama
10. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
dance musicals
Dadaism
A Dream Play (1902)
Poetic Realism
11. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
The Communist Manifesto
Jukebox musicals
Comic opera
John Millington Synge
12. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Jo
Andre Antoine
Japanese Theatre
Precolonial African Theatre
13. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Music
Jo
Intermezzi
A Dream Play (1902)
14. 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
non-Western Theatre
Expressionism
Book
Kabuki
15. Earliest form for photography
First Public Opera House
Revue (Musical Review)
Daguerreotype
Eugene Ionesco
16. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Faust
Showstopper
Book
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
17. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Sean O'Casey
Nickelodeons
Ballad Operas
A Trip to Coontown
18. 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
Book
Off-Off-Broadway
Shakuntala
Vaudeville
19. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Anton Chekhov
Off Broadway
The Student Prince
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
20. 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
Wole Soyinka
Expressionism
George Bernard Shaw
Gotthold Lessing
21. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Happenings
Man and Superman (1903)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Louis Daguerre
22. The orchestrated melodies
well-made plays
Shakespeare's King John
Music
musical
23. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Poetic Realism
Maxim Gorky
non-Western Theatre
Kordian (1962)
24. No protagonist; deals with a family of characters who tell many stories at once; the fact that characters on stage take no action may inspire audience members to be motivated for the opposite in real life
overture
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Communists took control
25. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
William Fox Talbot
Romantic Playwrights
Natyasastra
Theatre of Cruelty
26. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
overture
The Enlightenment
Ritual Theatre
Reprise
27. 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'
Beaumarchais
Shakuntala
Problem plays
Anton Chekhov
28. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Straight Plays
The Enlightenment
Ritual Theatre
Early European travelers and missionaries
29. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Natyasastra
Islamic Culture
Shavian Comedies
Gotthold Lessing
30. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Emile Zola
Verfremdung
Sentimental Comedies
The Jazz Singer
31. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Ballad Operas
Operetta
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Jo
32. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Characters in the Peking Opera
Restoration
Variety Show
Book
33. 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
Louis Daguerre
Alienation Effect
Das Kapital
box set
34. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Operatic Musicals
Off-Off-Broadway
Oscar Wilde
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
Anton Chekhov
Off Broadway
Hilarious Absurdism
36. 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
musical comedy
Aristotelian
Music
Expressionism
37. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Fourth Room
Dance of the Forest
Islamic Culture
38. 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
dance musicals
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Variety Show
39. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Ki
A Dream Play (1902)
rock musical
Beaumarchais
40. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Total Theatre
Maxim Gorky
book musicals
41. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Islamic Culture
Problem plays
Off-Off-Broadway
42. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Bunraku movements
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Restoration
A Dream Play (1902)
43. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
box set
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Domestic Tragedies
Kabuki
44. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Little Theatre Movement
Naturalism
Book
musical comedy
45. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Surrealism
Hilarious Absurdism
Oscar Wilde
46. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Eugene Ionesco
The Interpretation of Dreams
book musicals
The Enlightenment
47. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Harold Pinter
Off-Off-Broadway
Man and Superman (1903)
3 components of Musical Scripts
48. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Lyricist
Shimpa
Noh drama and Kabuki
Reprise
49. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Showstopper
Antonin Artaud
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Japanese Theatre
50. 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
Africa
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Avant-Garde
Painted-face roles