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Theatre Basics
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1. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Symbolism
Shakespeare's King John
Lyrics
Japanese Theatre
2. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Bunraku movements
Comedy of Manners
Natyasastra
3. '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
Ken Saro-Wiwa
A Trip to Coontown
Realism
Henrik Ibsen
4. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Burlesque
Ziegfield Follies
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Communist Manifesto
5. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Das Kapital
Harold Pinter
Realism
6. 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
musical comedy
Anton Chekhov
Performance Art
Oscar Wilde
7. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
George Bernard Shaw
Nell Gwynn
Man and Superman (1903)
Blaise Pascal
8. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Surrealism
The Living Theatre
Kordian (1962)
10. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Non-Western Drama
Intermezzi
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
11. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Fatalist Absurdism
Lyrics
The Enlightenment
Expressionism
12. Form of theatre that mixed traditional African ritual theatre and Western-style drama; encouraged African nationalism - glorified Africa's past - and advanced African customs - rituals - and culture; also dealt with serious political themes and appla
Total Theatre
Avant-Garde
Daguerreotype
Japanese Theatre
13. French philosopher often called the Father of the Romantic movement; argued that people could find happiness in a 'state of nature' and that they should learn from nature rather than the artificial and corrupted teachings of society
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happenings
Eugene Ionesco
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
14. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Chinese Theatre
Maxim Gorky
The Living Theatre
Noh drama
15. 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
Nickelodeons
Alienation Effect
Bertolt Brecht
onnagata
16. 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)
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shimpa
Jean-Paul Sartre
17. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Melodrama
Happenings
18. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Painted-face roles
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Louis Daguerre
The Jazz Singer
19. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Painted-face roles
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Romantics
20. French philosopher often called the Father of the Romantic movement; argued that people could find happiness in a 'state of nature' and that they should learn from nature rather than the artificial and corrupted teachings of society
Eugene Ionesco
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
non-Western Theatre
Dance of the Forest
21. 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
Shakespeare's King John
well-made plays
Voltaire
Reprise
22. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Expressionism
Harold Pinter
Non-Western Drama
23. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
Bertolt Brecht
box set
Ken Saro-Wiwa
24. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Off Broadway
A Dream Play (1902)
Shadow Theatre
Music
25. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
dance musicals
Theatre of Cruelty
Sentimental Comedies
overture
26. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Lyricist
box set
Shimpa
Lorraine Handsberry
27. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
George Bernard Shaw
Early European travelers and missionaries
Bertolt Brecht
28. Type of Islamic theatre which is created by lighting two-dimensional figures and casting their shadows on a screen; the audience watches the silhouettes while a narrator tells a story
Shadow Theatre
Ta'ziyeh
Nickelodeons
Dance of the Forest
29. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Fourth Room
Goethe
Noh drama and Kabuki
Theatre of Cruelty
30. 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
Fatalist Absurdism
Painted-face roles
Opera
Wole Soyinka
31. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
non-Western Theatre
Communists took control
A Dream Play (1902)
Ritual Theatre
32. 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'
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Goethe
Problem plays
Gotthold Lessing
33. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Ziegfield Follies
Restoration
Gotthold Lessing
rock musical
34. 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
onnagata
Gotthold Lessing
Antonin Artaud
Voltaire
35. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Librettist
Early European travelers and missionaries
Sentimental Comedies
Aristotelian
36. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Samuel Beckett
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ki
Book
37. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Islamic Culture
Aristotelian
Shavian Comedies
women could legally appear on stages in England
38. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Off-Off-Broadway
Burlesque
Ki
Hilarious Absurdism
39. Built in Venice in 1637
Nickelodeons
First Public Opera House
Harold Pinter
Poetic Realism
40. 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
musical comedy
Lyricist
Jo
Librettist
41. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Japanese Theatre
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Comic opera
Operatic Musicals
42. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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43. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Ta'ziyeh
Composer
Hilarious Absurdism
Operetta
44. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Anton Chekhov
Composer
Andre Antoine
Operatic Musicals
45. 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
Vaudeville
Off-Off-Broadway
musical
Beaumarchais
46. Book - music - and lyrics
Little Theatre Movement
3 components of Musical Scripts
Vaudeville
Verfremdung
47. 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
Romantic Playwrights
A Trip to Coontown
Mie pose
Beaumarchais
48. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
Voltaire
Precolonial African Theatre
Ha
49. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Operatic Musicals
The Student Prince
Samuel Beckett
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
50. The sung words
Naturalistic Plays
William Fox Talbot
Surrealism
Lyrics