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Theatre Basics
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1. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Shavian Comedies
Ballad Operas
non-Western Theatre
2. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Straight Plays
Avant-Garde
Shakespeare's King John
Sentimental Comedies
3. 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
Sentimental Comedies
Verfremdung
A Dream Play (1902)
well-made plays
4. 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
Sanskrit Drama
Voltaire
book musicals
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
5. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
dance musicals
George Bernard Shaw
Andre Antoine
Operatic Musicals
6. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Theatre of Cruelty
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Nell Gwynn
Ballad Operas
7. 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
Jo
Straight Plays
Emile Zola
Existential Absurdism
8. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Anton Chekhov
Bunraku movements
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Andre Antoine
9. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
Bunraku movements
Kathakali
10. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Composer
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Peking Opera
Alienation Effect
11. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Romantic Playwrights
Naturalism
The Enlightenment
12. Only cost a nickel
Nickelodeons
Alienation Effect
Bunraku movements
Music
13. Filled with characters who cannot resist an argument about social issues; no character is exempt from talking politics and theorizing about moral - artistic or religious reform
Off-Off-Broadway
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Shavian Comedies
Problem plays
14. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Goethe
Sean O'Casey
Off-Off-Broadway
Showstopper
15. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Shadow Theatre
Lyricist
Shakuntala
16. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Music
Ziegfield Follies
Eugene O'Neill
Harold Pinter
17. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Islamic Culture
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
First Public Opera House
Ki
18. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Western Drama
Poetic Realism
Nell Gwynn
19. '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
Music
Henrik Ibsen
Off Broadway
Opera
20. The orchestrated melodies
Africa
Kyu
Music
The Jazz Singer
21. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Revue (Musical Review)
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
book musicals
22. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Characters in the Peking Opera
Faust
Jo
non-Western Theatre
23. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Fourth Room
Comic opera
Shimpa
non-Western Theatre
24. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Straight Plays
Antonin Artaud
book musicals
Kordian (1962)
25. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
women could legally appear on stages in England
Islamic Culture
Highly Stylized Gestures
women could legally appear on stages in England
26. 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
onnagata
rock musical
Antonin Artaud
Communists took control
27. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Andre Antoine
Surrealism
Alienation Effect
Showstopper
28. A sudden - striking pose (often with their eyes crossed - chin sharply turned - and big toe pointed towards the sky) in Kabuki accompanied by several powerful beats of wooden clappers
Mie pose
Dadaism
A Trip to Coontown
Composer
29. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Surrealism
Off Broadway
30. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Africa
Intermezzi
musical comedy
31. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
The Black Crook
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
non-Western Theatre
Friedrich Nietzsche
32. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Melodrama
The Black Crook
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Existential Absurdism
33. Records of this type of theatre are fragmentary - but we do know that it grew out of regional religious rituals related to Confucianism - Taoism - and Buddhism - and ritual dances performed during the Shang dynasty
Beaumarchais
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Problem plays
Chinese Theatre
34. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Dadaism
The Interpretation of Dreams
Romantics
Jean-Paul Sartre
35. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Hilarious Absurdism
Existential Absurdism
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Ta'ziyeh
36. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kyu
Nickelodeons
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Melodrama
37. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Shadow Theatre
Non-Western Drama
Off-Off-Broadway
Comedy of Manners
38. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Jean-Paul Sartre
book musicals
women could legally appear on stages in England
39. 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
John Millington Synge
Comedy of Manners
Romantic Playwrights
The Interpretation of Dreams
40. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Blaise Pascal
Off-Off-Broadway
Book
Ha
41. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Shakuntala
Showstopper
Sentimental Comedies
Fourth Room
42. 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
Kyu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ballad Operas
Sean O'Casey
43. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
rock musical
Mie pose
Ballad Operas
Hilarious Absurdism
44. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Non-Western Drama
The Koran
Kafkaesque
Restoration
45. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Japanese Theatre
Avant-Garde
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Highly Stylized Gestures
46. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Aristotelian
Noh drama and Kabuki
Noh drama
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
47. Most famous of the absurdist playwrights; best considered a fatalist - although work is sometimes hilarious and can ask existential questions; Endgame (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1961); Waiting for Godot (1953)
Vaudeville
Dadaism
Kathakali
Samuel Beckett
48. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Minstrel Show Structure
A Dream Play (1902)
Louis Daguerre
49. 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
Shadow Theatre
Andre Antoine
Naturalism
Regional Theatre
50. One of the most popular Kabuki and Bunraku playwrights - who - like Shakespeare - wrote crowd-pleasing plays that combined poetry and prose in dramatic tales of comedy - tragedy - love - and war
Off-Off-Broadway
Theatre of Cruelty
Wole Soyinka
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
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