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Theatre Basics
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1. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Africa
Noh drama
Early European travelers and missionaries
2. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Hilarious Absurdism
Opera
Avant-Garde
Performance Art
3. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
First Public Opera House
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Africa
4. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Faust
Islamic Culture
5. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Variety Show
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
musical
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
6. 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
Expressionism
Little Theatre Movement
The Adding Machine (1923)
Friedrich Nietzsche
7. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Jo
women could legally appear on stages in England
Faust
8. Africa's greatest living playwright; born in Nigeria; plays combine symbolism - mysticism - beautiful dialogue - and they make strong political points; plays are deeply rooted in African myths - dance - and rituals but also influenced by Western dram
Fourth Room
Wole Soyinka
Nell Gwynn
Bunraku movements
9. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
Ziegfield Follies
Surrealism
Dadaism
10. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Louis Daguerre
Western Drama
Fourth Room
Noh drama and Kabuki
11. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Communists took control
3 components of Musical Scripts
Problem plays
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
12. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
The Interpretation of Dreams
Romantic Playwrights
Jukebox musicals
Restoration
13. Greatest of the Sturm und Drang playwrights; was also a critic - journalist - painter - biologist - statesman - poet - novelist - philosopher - scientist - and the manager of the Duke of Weimar's playhouse
The Jazz Singer
Antonin Artaud
Naturalism
Goethe
14. 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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15. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Problem plays
Chinese Theatre
Ha
The Living Theatre
16. Term used to describe performances that mix theatre - visual arts - music - dance - gesture and rituals; often use multimedia effects - sounds and lighting effects to make a point and allow the audience to understand its deeper implications; often re
Broadway Shows
Peking Opera
Performance Art
Peking Opera
17. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Theatre of Cruelty
Samuel Beckett
well-made plays
18. No protagonist; deals with a family of characters who tell many stories at once; the fact that characters on stage take no action may inspire audience members to be motivated for the opposite in real life
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
book musicals
Happenings
Existential Absurdism
19. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
Surrealism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
The Koran
20. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Henrik Ibsen
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Japanese Theatre
Restoration
21. Greatest of the Sturm und Drang playwrights; was also a critic - journalist - painter - biologist - statesman - poet - novelist - philosopher - scientist - and the manager of the Duke of Weimar's playhouse
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Ta'ziyeh
Goethe
Expressionism
22. What western theatre is often called:
Aristotelian
Jean-Paul Sartre
Librettist
women could legally appear on stages in England
23. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Wole Soyinka
Fatalist Absurdism
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Bertolt Brecht
24. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Minstrel Show Structure
John Millington Synge
The Enlightenment
Surrealism
25. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Avant-Garde
The Interpretation of Dreams
box set
Poetic Realism
26. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
musical comedy
Existentialism
Non-Western Drama
Africa
27. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Dadaism
Shimpa
Andre Antoine
Comedy of Manners
28. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Kafkaesque
Melodrama
Intermezzi
Lorraine Handsberry
29. 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
Daguerreotype
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Student Prince
Shakuntala
30. 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)
Naturalism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Samuel Beckett
Kyu
31. 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
Poetic Realism
Voltaire
Beaumarchais
Andre Antoine
32. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Precolonial African Theatre
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Restoration
33. Writes the book
Absurdism
Librettist
John Millington Synge
Off-Off-Broadway
34. 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
Noh drama and Kabuki
Gotthold Lessing
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Communists took control
35. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Kabuki
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Henrik Ibsen
36. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Existential Absurdism
Harold Pinter
The Interpretation of Dreams
William Fox Talbot
37. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Happenings
Goethe
Ziegfield Follies
Das Kapital
38. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Bunraku movements
Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Andre Antoine
39. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Broadway Shows
Absurdism
Aristotelian
Ta'ziyeh
40. 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
Naturalism
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Alienation Effect
41. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
non-Western Theatre
Islamic Culture
Gotthold Lessing
overture
42. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
musical comedy
Ballad Operas
Jo
Peking Opera
43. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Bread and Puppet Theatre
musical
Lorraine Handsberry
Nell Gwynn
44. History plays about major political events of the past - domestic plays about the loves and lives of merchants and townspeople - and dance-dramas about the world of spirits and animals
book musicals
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
A Trip to Coontown
Librettist
45. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
Music
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Denis Diderot
46. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Bunraku movements
Off Broadway
Maxim Gorky
Hilarious Absurdism
47. 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)
3 components of Musical Scripts
women could legally appear on stages in England
Bertolt Brecht
George Bernard Shaw
48. 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'
Aristotelian
Eugene Ionesco
Problem plays
Anton Chekhov
49. 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
Composer
Chinese Theatre
Antonin Artaud
William Fox Talbot
50. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Eugene Ionesco
Operetta
Surrealism
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)