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Theatre Basics

Subject : performing-arts
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1. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)






2. Writes the music






3. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse






4. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866






5. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist






6. Only cost a nickel






7. 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






8. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew






9. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court






10. Built in Venice in 1637






11. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway






12. 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)






13. 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'






14. 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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15. 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






16. Earliest form for photography






17. 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






18. 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






19. What western theatre is often called:






20. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue






21. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved






22. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company






23. 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






24. 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






25. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism






26. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata






27. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism






28. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene






29. 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






30. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)






31. Earliest form for photography






32. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London






33. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood






34. 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






35. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company






36. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:






37. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism






38. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream






39. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs






40. 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






41. 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






42. This happened for the first time during the Restoration






43. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans






44. 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






45. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot






46. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered






47. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past






48. 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






49. '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






50. 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