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Theatre Basics
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1. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Burlesque
Noh drama and Kabuki
Alienation Effect
dance musicals
2. 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
Highly Stylized Gestures
Straight Plays
musical comedy
3. 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
Emile Zola
Dance of the Forest
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Painted-face roles
4. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
rock musical
Natyasastra
Chinese Theatre
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
5. 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
The Communist Manifesto
Anton Chekhov
The Living Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
6. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Nell Gwynn
Kathakali
rock musical
Noh drama and Kabuki
7. 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
Chinese Theatre
Showstopper
Japanese Theatre
Minstrel Show
8. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Romantic Playwrights
Antonin Artaud
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
9. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Africa
Comedy of Manners
Noh drama
Poetic Realism
10. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
George Bernard Shaw
Goethe
Intermezzi
Faust
11. 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
Shimpa
musical comedy
Minstrel Show Structure
Operatic Musicals
12. What western theatre is often called:
The Black Crook
Aristotelian
Broadway Shows
Eugene Ionesco
13. Book - music - and lyrics
Kathakali
Opera
Total Theatre
3 components of Musical Scripts
14. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Characters in the Peking Opera
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Jo
The Jazz Singer
15. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Japanese Theatre
Domestic Tragedies
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Wole Soyinka
16. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Performance Art
Verfremdung
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Antonin Artaud
17. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Faust
Eugene O'Neill
Opera
The Adding Machine (1923)
18. 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
Dadaism
Lorraine Handsberry
Lyrics
Denis Diderot
19. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Aristotelian
Off-Off-Broadway
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
musical
20. 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
Burlesque
Gotthold Lessing
musical comedy
Avant-Garde
21. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kathakali
Off-Off-Broadway
The Living Theatre
22. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Fatalist Absurdism
Peking Opera
Vaudeville
A Trip to Coontown
23. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
rock musical
Henrik Ibsen
The Koran
Kyu
24. 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
Fourth Room
Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Koran
25. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
First Public Opera House
Chinese Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
Librettist
26. 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
Operetta
overture
Existentialism
Straight Plays
27. 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
Avant-Garde
Performance Art
Shavian Comedies
Theatre of Cruelty
28. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
Expressionism
George Bernard Shaw
3 components of Musical Scripts
29. 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
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
John Millington Synge
dance musicals
30. 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)
John Millington Synge
Shimpa
George Bernard Shaw
Straight Plays
31. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Beaumarchais
Communists took control
Africa
Off-Off-Broadway
32. 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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33. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)
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34. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
A Dream Play (1902)
Characters in the Peking Opera
Natyasastra
Shakespeare's King John
35. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Highly Stylized Gestures
The Interpretation of Dreams
Blaise Pascal
Happenings
36. The artist imposes his own internal state onto the outside world itself; expressionism is a subjective account of an objective perception; expressionist plays use deliberate set distortion
box set
The Adding Machine (1923)
Expressionism
Shavian Comedies
37. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
dance musicals
Little Theatre Movement
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
38. The orchestrated melodies
Aristotelian
Music
Poetic Realism
Domestic Tragedies
39. 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
Little Theatre Movement
Natyasastra
Operatic Musicals
Chinese Theatre
40. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
The Living Theatre
Ta'ziyeh
41. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
A Dream Play (1902)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
The Student Prince
Ritual Theatre
42. 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
overture
Variety Show
Operetta
Theatre of Cruelty
43. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Anton Chekhov
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Dance of the Forest
Early European travelers and missionaries
44. 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
Wole Soyinka
Lyrics
Harold Pinter
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
45. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Communists took control
Melodrama
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Ta'ziyeh
46. 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
Denis Diderot
Emile Zola
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Theatre of Cruelty
47. 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
Composer
Kabuki
Symbolism
Existentialism
48. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Peking Opera
Book
Straight Plays
Kordian (1962)
49. 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
Kafkaesque
Existentialism
John Millington Synge
Nickelodeons
50. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Surrealism
Kyu
Man and Superman (1903)
Composer