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Theatre Basics
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1. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Jukebox musicals
Verfremdung
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Kabuki
2. 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
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
box set
Eugene O'Neill
Kafkaesque
3. Plays without music
William Fox Talbot
book musicals
Straight Plays
Daguerreotype
4. 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 Adding Machine (1923)
Lyrics
Existentialism
Operatic Musicals
5. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
Intermezzi
Librettist
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
6. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Poetic Realism
Jo
Communists took control
Shavian Comedies
7. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Nell Gwynn
Shakuntala
Man and Superman (1903)
Faust
8. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Peking Opera
Japanese Theatre
Absurdism
Dance of the Forest
9. Most famous surrealist and was a French writer and director; studied Asian religions - mysticism - and ancient cultures; declared theatre should should wake the nerves and heart; argued that proscenium arch theatres create a barrier between the audie
The Jazz Singer
Domestic Tragedies
Antonin Artaud
Ziegfield Follies
10. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
musical comedy
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Western Drama
11. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Little Theatre Movement
well-made plays
overture
12. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Samuel Beckett
Poetic Realism
Precolonial African Theatre
William Fox Talbot
13. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Happenings
Beaumarchais
Minstrel Show
Revue (Musical Review)
14. 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
Islamic Culture
Expressionism
dance musicals
Gotthold Lessing
15. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Absurdism
Avant-Garde
The Black Crook
The Student Prince
16. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Harold Pinter
Naturalistic Plays
Das Kapital
Little Theatre Movement
17. 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
Restoration
Domestic Tragedies
Chinese Theatre
Harold Pinter
18. 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
Characters in the Peking Opera
rock musical
Opera
Wole Soyinka
19. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Happenings
Ki
Shimpa
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
20. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Living Theatre
Happenings
Vaudeville
Book
21. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Japanese Theatre
Islamic Culture
Louis Daguerre
Problem plays
22. The men who play female roles are called:
Dadaism
Broadway Shows
onnagata
A Dream Play (1902)
23. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Alienation Effect
Lyricist
musical
Painted-face roles
24. 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
Hilarious Absurdism
Regional Theatre
Kyu
Ballad Operas
25. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
John Millington Synge
Louis Daguerre
First Public Opera House
26. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Wole Soyinka
Theatre of Cruelty
Ziegfield Follies
Denis Diderot
27. The men who play female roles are called:
William Fox Talbot
Daguerreotype
onnagata
Realism
28. Writes the book
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Avant-Garde
Librettist
Vaudeville
29. 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
Hilarious Absurdism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Early European travelers and missionaries
30. 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
Lyrics
Composer
Expressionism
Peking Opera
31. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Happenings
Friedrich Nietzsche
Kordian (1962)
Opera
32. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Ziegfield Follies
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Existentialism
Noh drama and Kabuki
33. Proclaimed 'God is dead...and we have killed him.'; felt taht absence of God was a tragedy - but believed human beings needed to accept the tragedy and move forward in a world that was unjust and meaningless
Happenings
A Trip to Coontown
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Friedrich Nietzsche
34. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Verfremdung
Oscar Wilde
Painted-face roles
Wole Soyinka
35. 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)
George Bernard Shaw
Shimpa
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Bunraku movements
36. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
The Adding Machine (1923)
Noh drama and Kabuki
Aristotelian
Ken Saro-Wiwa
37. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
non-Western Theatre
Emile Zola
Revue (Musical Review)
Natyasastra
38. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Symbolism
Restoration
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Harold Pinter
39. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Lorraine Handsberry
Painted-face roles
Minstrel Show
Verfremdung
40. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Symbolism
Lorraine Handsberry
The Interpretation of Dreams
Shimpa
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
Precolonial African Theatre
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
overture
Ballad Operas
42. 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)
Goethe
William Fox Talbot
Jo
43. Writes the music
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Composer
The Student Prince
Shadow Theatre
44. Studied the history of class conflict
Bunraku movements
Regional Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
William Fox Talbot
45. 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
Shimpa
Highly Stylized Gestures
The Student Prince
Dadaism
46. 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
Showstopper
Existential Absurdism
Hilarious Absurdism
Regional Theatre
47. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Variety Show
Opera
Romantics
Fatalist Absurdism
48. 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
Natyasastra
The Student Prince
dance musicals
The Interpretation of Dreams
49. 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
Kathakali
The Koran
Problem plays
Kyu
50. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Maxim Gorky
Burlesque
Friedrich Nietzsche