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Theatre Basics
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1. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Showstopper
Book
Western Drama
Domestic Tragedies
2. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Opera
Surrealism
Regional Theatre
3. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
The Interpretation of Dreams
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Melodrama
Absurdism
4. 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
Realism
Communists took control
Gotthold Lessing
Noh drama and Kabuki
5. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Precolonial African Theatre
Existentialism
Performance Art
6. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Characters in the Peking Opera
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Kafkaesque
Ballad Operas
7. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
A Dream Play (1902)
William Fox Talbot
Showstopper
The Jazz Singer
8. Writes the book
Realism
Librettist
non-Western Theatre
Andre Antoine
9. What western theatre is often called:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Aristotelian
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
William Fox Talbot
10. 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
book musicals
Communists took control
Goethe
Off-Off-Broadway
11. Earliest form for photography
Librettist
Gotthold Lessing
Andre Antoine
Daguerreotype
12. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Little Theatre Movement
Straight Plays
Off-Off-Broadway
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
13. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
Naturalistic Plays
Minstrel Show
Dadaism
Problem plays
14. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Africa
The Jazz Singer
The Adding Machine (1923)
Reprise
15. Writes the lyrics
Lyricist
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
box set
16. 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
women could legally appear on stages in England
Performance Art
Comedy of Manners
musical
17. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Faust
Melodrama
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fatalist Absurdism
18. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Wole Soyinka
Painted-face roles
book musicals
Off Broadway
19. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Off Broadway
Wole Soyinka
Blaise Pascal
20. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Jo
Eugene Ionesco
Noh drama and Kabuki
The Adding Machine (1923)
21. 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
Jean-Paul Sartre
Regional Theatre
Ki
22. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Little Theatre Movement
Harold Pinter
Louis Daguerre
Jo
23. 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
Fourth Room
John Millington Synge
Peking Opera
Vaudeville
24. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Revue (Musical Review)
Mie pose
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Romantics
25. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Noh drama
Ta'ziyeh
Intermezzi
26. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Fourth Room
Faust
Bunraku movements
Burlesque
27. 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
Existentialism
Vaudeville
onnagata
Blaise Pascal
28. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Opera
The Interpretation of Dreams
Fatalist Absurdism
George Bernard Shaw
29. 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
Surrealism
A Trip to Coontown
Bunraku movements
Jean-Paul Sartre
30. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
Intermezzi
Shadow Theatre
Emile Zola
31. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Composer
Minstrel Show Structure
Operatic Musicals
Denis Diderot
32. 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
Dance of the Forest
Friedrich Nietzsche
box set
rock musical
33. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Sentimental Comedies
Dance of the Forest
John Millington Synge
Peking Opera
34. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Jean-Paul Sartre
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Kathakali
Henrik Ibsen
35. 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
Bertolt Brecht
non-Western Theatre
well-made plays
Samuel Beckett
36. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Daguerreotype
Non-Western Drama
Dadaism
Restoration
37. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Naturalism
Eugene Ionesco
Kyu
38. Attacked the evils and restrictions of society; tried to reveal the higher reality of the unconscious mind with fantastic imagery and contradictory images; performances were often violent and cruel as they tried to shock the audience into the realiza
Western Drama
Antonin Artaud
Lorraine Handsberry
Surrealism
39. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Noh drama and Kabuki
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Nell Gwynn
40. Writes the music
Composer
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shakuntala
41. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Das Kapital
Intermezzi
Painted-face roles
Louis Daguerre
42. 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
Realism
Reprise
Variety Show
musical
43. 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
Highly Stylized Gestures
Regional Theatre
rock musical
Natyasastra
44. 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
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Sanskrit Drama
Music
Comedy of Manners
45. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Shakuntala
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Oscar Wilde
46. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
The Student Prince
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Aphra Behn
Henrik Ibsen
47. 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
Shadow Theatre
Western Drama
Regional Theatre
Total Theatre
48. 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)
Minstrel Show
Samuel Beckett
Poetic Realism
overture
49. The men who play female roles are called:
Domestic Tragedies
Japanese Theatre
Jean-Paul Sartre
onnagata
50. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Emile Zola
Goethe
Faust
Maxim Gorky
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