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Theatre Basics
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1. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Peking Opera
Noh drama and Kabuki
2. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Emile Zola
Variety Show
Poetic Realism
Sean O'Casey
3. Only cost a nickel
Intermezzi
Nickelodeons
Samuel Beckett
Variety Show
4. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Voltaire
Andre Antoine
Ballad Operas
The Student Prince
5. 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
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Living Theatre
Dance of the Forest
Beaumarchais
6. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Noh drama and Kabuki
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Composer
Restoration
7. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Avant-Garde
Noh drama and Kabuki
Variety Show
Alienation Effect
8. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Revue (Musical Review)
book musicals
Jo
Eugene Ionesco
9. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Straight Plays
well-made plays
Verfremdung
10. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Ha
Oscar Wilde
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
11. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Aphra Behn
Regional Theatre
Eugene Ionesco
The Black Crook
12. 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
Oscar Wilde
Painted-face roles
Nickelodeons
3 components of Musical Scripts
13. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Man and Superman (1903)
box set
Eugene Ionesco
14. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Denis Diderot
Chinese Theatre
Performance Art
musical
15. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Ziegfield Follies
Precolonial African Theatre
16. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
John Millington Synge
The Interpretation of Dreams
Ballad Operas
First Public Opera House
17. 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
Naturalism
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Music
Gotthold Lessing
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)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Opera
Off Broadway
19. 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)
Beaumarchais
Voltaire
George Bernard Shaw
Sanskrit Drama
20. 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
Kafkaesque
Beaumarchais
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
21. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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22. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
Minstrel Show
Henrik Ibsen
Jo
23. 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
Denis Diderot
John Millington Synge
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Existentialism
24. Earliest form for photography
Emile Zola
Daguerreotype
Peking Opera
Little Theatre Movement
25. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Lyrics
women could legally appear on stages in England
overture
Early European travelers and missionaries
26. One of the most valuable historical records of Indian theatre; an encyclopedic book of dramatic theory and practice; has 37 chapters and covers every aspect of classical Indian drama - also a treatise on dramatic theory and philosophy - states that t
women could legally appear on stages in England
Natyasastra
Romantic Playwrights
dance musicals
27. 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
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Revue (Musical Review)
Africa
Mie pose
28. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Harold Pinter
Intermezzi
Das Kapital
Ta'ziyeh
29. 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
Highly Stylized Gestures
Dance of the Forest
Shadow Theatre
Romantics
30. 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
Das Kapital
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
overture
31. 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
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Kabuki
Wole Soyinka
Little Theatre Movement
32. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Emile Zola
Dance of the Forest
Louis Daguerre
33. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Opera
The Interpretation of Dreams
Verfremdung
34. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
John Millington Synge
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Natyasastra
35. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Louis Daguerre
3 components of Musical Scripts
Romantics
The Living Theatre
36. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Lorraine Handsberry
Symbolism
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Naturalistic Plays
37. One of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment - French poet - essayist - and playwright whose writing often got him in trouble with the church; built a theatre on his own estate so he could freely present his plays
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Voltaire
The Communist Manifesto
Goethe
38. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
Anton Chekhov
Comedy of Manners
Romantic Playwrights
39. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Dadaism
Islamic Culture
Jukebox musicals
Shimpa
40. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Opera
Noh drama
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Eugene Ionesco
41. 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
Reprise
Fourth Room
Existentialism
Naturalism
42. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Absurdism
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Louis Daguerre
The Living Theatre
43. 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
Alienation Effect
Dadaism
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Samuel Beckett
44. Plays without music
Ki
Straight Plays
Nickelodeons
Sentimental Comedies
45. 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
First Public Opera House
The Origin of the Cakewalk
musical comedy
46. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Alienation Effect
women could legally appear on stages in England
Nell Gwynn
Painted-face roles
47. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Ki
Maxim Gorky
Eugene Ionesco
Africa
48. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nickelodeons
Denis Diderot
Opera
49. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Ritual Theatre
Nell Gwynn
Sanskrit Drama
Western Drama
50. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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