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Theatre Basics
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
The Black Crook
Existentialism
Lyrics
Book
2. The sung words
Natyasastra
Expressionism
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Lyrics
3. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Jukebox musicals
The Jazz Singer
Lorraine Handsberry
Goethe
4. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
Gotthold Lessing
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nickelodeons
5. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Eugene Ionesco
Western Drama
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
First Public Opera House
6. Grew up in poverty and put himself through medical school and set up free clinics in Russia to help the poor; The Seagull (1896) - Uncle Vanya (1899) Three Sisters (1901) & The Cherry Orchard (1904); placed on stage the lazy chaos of lives crushed by
Anton Chekhov
Eugene Ionesco
box set
Intermezzi
7. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Aphra Behn
Non-Western Drama
Alienation Effect
Natyasastra
8. 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
Denis Diderot
Jean-Paul Sartre
Showstopper
Minstrel Show Structure
9. Built in Venice in 1637
First Public Opera House
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Jo
Shakespeare's King John
10. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Shadow Theatre
non-Western Theatre
Beaumarchais
Highly Stylized Gestures
11. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
The Enlightenment
William Fox Talbot
Book
Domestic Tragedies
12. Result of western influence - a toned down version of Kabuki - told stories of everyday life - particularly those of women - women played women's parts (whereas Kabuki was all male)
Burlesque
Early European travelers and missionaries
Sentimental Comedies
Shimpa
13. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Bread and Puppet Theatre
The Interpretation of Dreams
Shavian Comedies
Ballad Operas
14. 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
Melodrama
Bertolt Brecht
Existentialism
Western Drama
15. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Performance Art
Expressionism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
rock musical
16. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Operetta
George Bernard Shaw
Shadow Theatre
Jukebox musicals
17. Islam's holy book - contains a warning about 'graven images' similar to the one in the Bible - prohibition applies to dolls - statues - portraits - and people playing a character
Anton Chekhov
Dance of the Forest
Gotthold Lessing
The Koran
18. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Black Crook
Vaudeville
The Adding Machine (1923)
Surrealism
19. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Noh drama and Kabuki
Kyu
book musicals
Ritual Theatre
20. 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
Sanskrit Drama
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dadaism
21. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Operetta
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Opera
22. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Existentialism
Opera
Ha
Existentialism
23. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Africa
Vaudeville
Happenings
Lyricist
24. Studied the history of class conflict
Nickelodeons
Wole Soyinka
The Communist Manifesto
William Fox Talbot
25. '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
Domestic Tragedies
Maxim Gorky
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Henrik Ibsen
26. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Highly Stylized Gestures
Romantic Playwrights
The Student Prince
Composer
27. 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
Reprise
Ritual Theatre
Music
Jean-Paul Sartre
28. Only cost a nickel
Poetic Realism
Nickelodeons
Showstopper
William Fox Talbot
29. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Oscar Wilde
Emile Zola
Burlesque
Ballad Operas
30. 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
non-Western Theatre
Wole Soyinka
A Trip to Coontown
Surrealism
31. 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
Andre Antoine
Absurdism
A Trip to Coontown
Happenings
32. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Showstopper
Bunraku movements
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Happenings
33. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Opera
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Little Theatre Movement
rock musical
34. 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
Poetic Realism
Vaudeville
Operetta
Reprise
35. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Anton Chekhov
Louis Daguerre
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
36. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
well-made plays
Highly Stylized Gestures
Book
37. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Wole Soyinka
dance musicals
Aphra Behn
Verfremdung
38. Plays without music
Straight Plays
women could legally appear on stages in England
Voltaire
Operetta
39. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
The Origin of the Cakewalk
overture
Naturalism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
40. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
rock musical
Total Theatre
Problem plays
Eugene Ionesco
41. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Theatre of Cruelty
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Characters in the Peking Opera
Domestic Tragedies
42. A medley of the show's songs played as a preview; usually the beginning of a traditional musical; lets the audience know that it's time to stop talking because the performance is about to begin
overture
Andre Antoine
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
The Enlightenment
43. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Japanese Theatre
dance musicals
Fourth Room
First Public Opera House
44. 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
William Fox Talbot
Kordian (1962)
Dadaism
Mie pose
45. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Performance Art
musical comedy
Goethe
John Millington Synge
46. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Natyasastra
Man and Superman (1903)
Avant-Garde
Noh drama and Kabuki
47. 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
First Public Opera House
The Student Prince
The Communist Manifesto
Operatic Musicals
48. 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
A Dream Play (1902)
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Comedy of Manners
49. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
musical comedy
John Millington Synge
Melodrama
Louis Daguerre
50. 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
Ballad Operas
Jean-Paul Sartre
Eugene Ionesco
well-made plays