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Theatre Basics
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1. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
musical comedy
Book
Music
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
2. Built in Venice in 1637
musical comedy
First Public Opera House
Variety Show
Opera
3. Writes the lyrics
Lyricist
Sentimental Comedies
Hilarious Absurdism
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
4. 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 Adding Machine (1923)
Vaudeville
John Millington Synge
Kafkaesque
5. 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
The Enlightenment
A Trip to Coontown
Off-Off-Broadway
Hilarious Absurdism
6. Book - music - and lyrics
The Communist Manifesto
Oscar Wilde
3 components of Musical Scripts
Reprise
7. 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
Samuel Beckett
Eugene O'Neill
Comedy of Manners
8. 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
Reprise
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
9. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Alienation Effect
Non-Western Drama
George Bernard Shaw
10. 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)
Ki
George Bernard Shaw
Gotthold Lessing
Early European travelers and missionaries
11. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Kordian (1962)
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Africa
12. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Minstrel Show
Revue (Musical Review)
Variety Show
Avant-Garde
13. 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
Jo
The Student Prince
Sanskrit Drama
A Dream Play (1902)
14. Plays without music
Sentimental Comedies
Straight Plays
Surrealism
Symbolism
15. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Straight Plays
Wole Soyinka
Broadway Shows
16. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Kabuki
Melodrama
Off-Off-Broadway
Friedrich Nietzsche
17. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Off-Off-Broadway
Verfremdung
Samuel Beckett
overture
18. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Andre Antoine
Man and Superman (1903)
Emile Zola
Opera
19. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
George Bernard Shaw
Lorraine Handsberry
Early European travelers and missionaries
Opera
20. 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
Kathakali
Das Kapital
Composer
Shadow Theatre
21. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
musical
Bunraku movements
Samuel Beckett
Broadway Shows
22. Writes the book
A Trip to Coontown
Librettist
Emile Zola
Regional Theatre
23. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Shakespeare's King John
box set
Fourth Room
24. Studied the history of class conflict
First Public Opera House
The Communist Manifesto
Opera
Burlesque
25. 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
Voltaire
Kordian (1962)
Bertolt Brecht
Shakespeare's King John
26. 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
Kordian (1962)
Precolonial African Theatre
Reprise
book musicals
27. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Africa
Ha
Existential Absurdism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
28. 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
Sentimental Comedies
The Student Prince
Chinese Theatre
3 components of Musical Scripts
29. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Eugene O'Neill
Communists took control
Existential Absurdism
Maxim Gorky
30. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
women could legally appear on stages in England
Africa
Noh drama and Kabuki
Absurdism
31. 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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32. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
The Koran
Kafkaesque
Burlesque
Highly Stylized Gestures
33. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
book musicals
Precolonial African Theatre
Blaise Pascal
34. 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
Communists took control
Kabuki
Theatre of Cruelty
Restoration
35. Writes the music
Variety Show
Composer
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
36. 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
Opera
Little Theatre Movement
Existential Absurdism
Romantic Playwrights
37. 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
William Fox Talbot
Little Theatre Movement
A Trip to Coontown
Harold Pinter
38. One of the most valuable historical records of Indian theatre; an encyclopedic book of dramatic theory and practice; has 37 chapters and covers every aspect of classical Indian drama - also a treatise on dramatic theory and philosophy - states that t
Natyasastra
Aristotelian
Kafkaesque
3 components of Musical Scripts
39. 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 Communist Manifesto
Jukebox musicals
Vaudeville
Kabuki
40. 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
Shavian Comedies
The Student Prince
George Bernard Shaw
Operetta
41. 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
Shakuntala
Minstrel Show Structure
Aristotelian
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
42. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
George Bernard Shaw
Operetta
Aphra Behn
43. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Natyasastra
Bertolt Brecht
Kathakali
44. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
Theatre of Cruelty
book musicals
The Student Prince
45. 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
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Revue (Musical Review)
Sanskrit Drama
Denis Diderot
46. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Noh drama
book musicals
Sentimental Comedies
47. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
musical comedy
Avant-Garde
3 components of Musical Scripts
The Adding Machine (1923)
48. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God; not a negative - for without God humans can create their own existences - purpose and meaning
Performance Art
Burlesque
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Existentialism
49. 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
Sentimental Comedies
A Trip to Coontown
Voltaire
Realism
50. Light opera - differs from 'grand opera' because it has a frivolous - comic theme - some spoken dialogue - a melodramatic story - and usually a little dancing; The Mikado (1885)
Operetta
Off-Off-Broadway
The Jazz Singer
Islamic Culture