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Theatre Basics
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1. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
Non-Western Drama
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Millington Synge
2. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Surrealism
Nell Gwynn
Eugene Ionesco
Problem plays
3. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Japanese Theatre
Ki
Shakespeare's King John
non-Western Theatre
4. A robust and spectacular version of Noh; named after the characters for 'song' - 'dance' - and 'skill'; created by a woman named Okuni - owner of a brothel
First Public Opera House
Anton Chekhov
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Kabuki
5. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Peking Opera
Shakespeare's King John
Aphra Behn
6. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Showstopper
Ziegfield Follies
Book
onnagata
7. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Vaudeville
Little Theatre Movement
William Fox Talbot
Librettist
8. 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
Nickelodeons
Daguerreotype
Beaumarchais
The Student Prince
9. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Fatalist Absurdism
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Music
Harold Pinter
10. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Henrik Ibsen
Lorraine Handsberry
Friedrich Nietzsche
11. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
Opera
A Trip to Coontown
Precolonial African Theatre
12. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
Bunraku movements
Ziegfield Follies
A Trip to Coontown
13. The sung words
Noh drama and Kabuki
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Lyrics
Aristotelian
14. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Ki
musical
The Black Crook
Ken Saro-Wiwa
15. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Operatic Musicals
well-made plays
Comedy of Manners
book musicals
16. 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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17. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Aphra Behn
Little Theatre Movement
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Peking Opera
18. The orchestrated melodies
Music
Hilarious Absurdism
Shakespeare's King John
Nell Gwynn
19. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Off Broadway
Revue (Musical Review)
Avant-Garde
Shakespeare's King John
20. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Samuel Beckett
Domestic Tragedies
21. 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
John Millington Synge
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
22. Type of theatre that grew out of ritual - incorporated acting - music - storytelling - poetry - dance - costumes - and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama
Mie pose
Precolonial African Theatre
Revue (Musical Review)
3 components of Musical Scripts
23. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Denis Diderot
Noh drama
Minstrel Show
Absurdism
24. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Vaudeville
overture
Ki
Characters in the Peking Opera
25. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years
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26. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
Japanese Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
Dance of the Forest
27. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Ballad Operas
Naturalistic Plays
Restoration
28. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Kabuki
musical
musical comedy
Music
29. 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
Ritual Theatre
Natyasastra
Louis Daguerre
box set
30. 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)
Regional Theatre
George Bernard Shaw
Ballad Operas
Characters in the Peking Opera
31. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Goethe
The Black Crook
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Peking Opera
32. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Andre Antoine
Emile Zola
Revue (Musical Review)
Denis Diderot
33. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Lorraine Handsberry
The Living Theatre
Comic opera
Book
34. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Shakespeare's King John
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Maxim Gorky
The Interpretation of Dreams
35. 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
Ki
George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman (1903)
Bertolt Brecht
36. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Denis Diderot
Ritual Theatre
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Verfremdung
37. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
William Fox Talbot
Henrik Ibsen
Domestic Tragedies
Little Theatre Movement
38. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Music
Variety Show
Operatic Musicals
Showstopper
39. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Jo
Total Theatre
Faust
John Millington Synge
40. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Precolonial African Theatre
Kordian (1962)
Das Kapital
41. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Jukebox musicals
Romantics
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Poetic Realism
42. 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
overture
Ta'ziyeh
A Trip to Coontown
The Living Theatre
43. 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
Non-Western Drama
Chinese Theatre
Composer
well-made plays
44. What western theatre is often called:
Noh drama and Kabuki
Romantics
Showstopper
Aristotelian
45. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Symbolism
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
46. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Africa
Reprise
Non-Western Drama
Communists took control
47. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Reprise
Kyu
48. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Sean O'Casey
Maxim Gorky
Kyu
Das Kapital
49. 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
Poetic Realism
Kathakali
Restoration
Sanskrit Drama
50. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Noh drama and Kabuki
Ziegfield Follies
non-Western Theatre
Minstrel Show
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