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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Voltaire
The Interpretation of Dreams
box set
Beaumarchais
2. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Opera
The Communist Manifesto
Maxim Gorky
3. 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
Revue (Musical Review)
Man and Superman (1903)
Fourth Room
4. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Regional Theatre
Melodrama
women could legally appear on stages in England
Domestic Tragedies
5. 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
Oscar Wilde
Kabuki
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Highly Stylized Gestures
6. Would agitate the masses - attack the spectators' sensibilities and purge people of their destructive tendencies; wanted stylized - ritualized performances - not realism - which they felt restricted the theatre to the study of psychological problems
Symbolism
Hilarious Absurdism
Theatre of Cruelty
Maxim Gorky
7. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Ha
Minstrel Show
Mie pose
Noh drama and Kabuki
8. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Absurdism
musical
Ziegfield Follies
9. What western theatre is often called:
Melodrama
Aristotelian
Composer
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
10. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Ha
Shakuntala
Kyu
Faust
11. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Noh drama
Peking Opera
box set
William Fox Talbot
12. The German equivalent to Diderot; was a playwright - critic - and Enlightenment philosopher Who wrote tragedies and comedies about the middle-class; his greatest play was Nathan the Wise
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Maxim Gorky
Gotthold Lessing
Symbolism
13. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Dance of the Forest
Sean O'Casey
The Living Theatre
Restoration
14. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
rock musical
overture
The Student Prince
Book
15. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
Antonin Artaud
The Koran
Oscar Wilde
16. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Noh drama
Shakespeare's King John
Kordian (1962)
Daguerreotype
17. No spoken dialogue - entirely sung; comes from the Latin word 'work' and may have originally meant 'works in music' or 'musical works for the stage'; first operas were in Italy in late 1500s
Wole Soyinka
Ha
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Opera
18. 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
Existentialism
Denis Diderot
Dance of the Forest
musical
19. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Ziegfield Follies
Wole Soyinka
Lorraine Handsberry
Fatalist Absurdism
20. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Vaudeville
Bunraku movements
William Fox Talbot
Natyasastra
21. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Ha
Das Kapital
Surrealism
Shavian Comedies
22. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Ziegfield Follies
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Operatic Musicals
23. Plays without music
Straight Plays
Oscar Wilde
Ha
The Student Prince
24. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
The Black Crook
Ken Saro-Wiwa
musical
Lyrics
25. A production of British actor Charles Kean; had realistic costumes - set and props that he had researched to make sure they were historically correct
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26. 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
Opera
Regional Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Verfremdung
27. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Sanskrit Drama
Expressionism
Operetta
28. 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
Kafkaesque
Non-Western Drama
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Aphra Behn
29. 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
Poetic Realism
Dance of the Forest
Kyu
30. Writes the lyrics
women could legally appear on stages in England
Problem plays
Lyricist
Variety Show
31. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Beaumarchais
A Dream Play (1902)
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Jo
32. 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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33. 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
Emile Zola
Comedy of Manners
Noh drama
Little Theatre Movement
34. 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
Beaumarchais
Voltaire
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Noh drama and Kabuki
35. '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
Eugene Ionesco
Jo
Henrik Ibsen
Reprise
36. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
non-Western Theatre
Avant-Garde
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Dadaism
37. The sung words
Operetta
Maxim Gorky
Lyrics
Opera
38. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Minstrel Show Structure
Maxim Gorky
Romantics
A Dream Play (1902)
39. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Little Theatre Movement
John Millington Synge
The Black Crook
Ritual Theatre
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
Dance of the Forest
Nickelodeons
Peking Opera
41. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
overture
Intermezzi
Shimpa
Fatalist Absurdism
42. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Minstrel Show
musical comedy
Early European travelers and missionaries
Kordian (1962)
43. Studied the history of class conflict
Shavian Comedies
Minstrel Show
The Communist Manifesto
Fatalist Absurdism
44. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
dance musicals
Blaise Pascal
Early European travelers and missionaries
Variety Show
45. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Early European travelers and missionaries
Peking Opera
Broadway Shows
Bread and Puppet Theatre
46. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Andre Antoine
Japanese Theatre
Ha
overture
47. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Mie pose
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Romantic Playwrights
Gotthold Lessing
48. 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
The Communist Manifesto
Domestic Tragedies
Poetic Realism
Painted-face roles
49. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Fourth Room
Chinese Theatre
Problem plays
Librettist
50. 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
The Jazz Singer
Vaudeville
The Jazz Singer
Ziegfield Follies