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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. Only cost a nickel
Existential Absurdism
Dance of the Forest
Nickelodeons
Problem plays
2. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Kafkaesque
Shakespeare's King John
box set
3. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Romantic Playwrights
Noh drama
Poetic Realism
4. '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
Henrik Ibsen
The Black Crook
Voltaire
The Living Theatre
5. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Sentimental Comedies
Hilarious Absurdism
Surrealism
Book
6. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Poetic Realism
Aphra Behn
Sean O'Casey
Henrik Ibsen
7. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Symbolism
Ha
Fatalist Absurdism
Japanese Theatre
8. 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)
Shimpa
Intermezzi
Naturalism
Expressionism
9. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Sentimental Comedies
dance musicals
Precolonial African Theatre
10. Writes the lyrics
Opera
Lyricist
Comedy of Manners
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
11. 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
Harold Pinter
Denis Diderot
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Eugene O'Neill
12. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
John Millington Synge
The Interpretation of Dreams
Expressionism
13. Studied the history of class conflict
Precolonial African Theatre
Sanskrit Drama
Sentimental Comedies
The Communist Manifesto
14. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Reprise
Faust
The Living Theatre
15. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sean O'Casey
Operetta
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
16. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
The Enlightenment
Das Kapital
Gotthold Lessing
Variety Show
17. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Broadway Shows
Western Drama
Kyu
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
18. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Problem plays
Fourth Room
Shadow Theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
19. Studied the history of class conflict
Louis Daguerre
Shadow Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
Existentialism
20. 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'
Problem plays
Librettist
Straight Plays
Shimpa
21. 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'
Man and Superman (1903)
Dance of the Forest
Problem plays
Communists took control
22. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Bunraku movements
Vaudeville
Ballad Operas
John Millington Synge
23. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Total Theatre
Western Drama
Sean O'Casey
Beaumarchais
24. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Kabuki
A Trip to Coontown
well-made plays
Africa
25. 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
First Public Opera House
Faust
Poetic Realism
26. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
3 components of Musical Scripts
Off Broadway
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ta'ziyeh
27. Type of theatre that grew out of ritual - incorporated acting - music - storytelling - poetry - dance - costumes - and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama
Comic opera
Noh drama and Kabuki
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Precolonial African Theatre
28. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Shimpa
The Adding Machine (1923)
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Performance Art
29. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Bunraku movements
non-Western Theatre
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Voltaire
30. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kyu
Voltaire
Shavian Comedies
Ken Saro-Wiwa
31. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Happenings
Operetta
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Ken Saro-Wiwa
32. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Characters in the Peking Opera
Lorraine Handsberry
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Lyrics
33. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Dance of the Forest
Ziegfield Follies
The Student Prince
3 components of Musical Scripts
34. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Showstopper
Alienation Effect
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Realism
35. 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
Shadow Theatre
Japanese Theatre
Melodrama
Ritual Theatre
36. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Naturalistic Plays
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Ki
Bunraku movements
37. The men who play female roles are called:
The Jazz Singer
Jukebox musicals
First Public Opera House
onnagata
38. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
musical
The Student Prince
Shadow Theatre
The Living Theatre
39. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Lorraine Handsberry
Regional Theatre
musical comedy
Operatic Musicals
40. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Kathakali
Variety Show
Minstrel Show
Peking Opera
41. Type of theatre that grew out of ritual - incorporated acting - music - storytelling - poetry - dance - costumes - and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama
Reprise
Precolonial African Theatre
Kabuki
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
42. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
The Communist Manifesto
Islamic Culture
Naturalism
Sentimental Comedies
43. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
Bunraku movements
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Painted-face roles
Mie pose
44. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Characters in the Peking Opera
Absurdism
Poetic Realism
Regional Theatre
45. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Africa
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Happenings
Burlesque
46. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Jo
Bertolt Brecht
Poetic Realism
The Adding Machine (1923)
47. Plays without music
Friedrich Nietzsche
Das Kapital
Henrik Ibsen
Straight Plays
48. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Maxim Gorky
Emile Zola
Noh drama and Kabuki
49. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
rock musical
non-Western Theatre
Broadway Shows
Aphra Behn
50. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Little Theatre Movement
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Existential Absurdism
Ta'ziyeh