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Theatre Basics
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1. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
A Dream Play (1902)
Absurdism
Operetta
Minstrel Show Structure
2. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Reprise
Naturalistic Plays
overture
The Living Theatre
3. Plays without music
Hilarious Absurdism
Straight Plays
Highly Stylized Gestures
Henrik Ibsen
4. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Non-Western Drama
Henrik Ibsen
3 components of Musical Scripts
5. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Sentimental Comedies
Islamic Culture
6. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Romantic Playwrights
Western Drama
Shimpa
Painted-face roles
7. The sung words
Total Theatre
Lyrics
Ki
Romantic Playwrights
8. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Composer
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
A Dream Play (1902)
9. Writes the music
Jean-Paul Sartre
Man and Superman (1903)
Vaudeville
Composer
10. Most famous of the absurdist playwrights; best considered a fatalist - although work is sometimes hilarious and can ask existential questions; Endgame (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1961); Waiting for Godot (1953)
Wole Soyinka
Samuel Beckett
dance musicals
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
11. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Dadaism
Vaudeville
Melodrama
Reprise
12. 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
Daguerreotype
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Romantics
13. 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
Lorraine Handsberry
A Trip to Coontown
Louis Daguerre
Samuel Beckett
14. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Broadway Shows
The Student Prince
Alienation Effect
Restoration
15. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Aphra Behn
women could legally appear on stages in England
Happenings
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
16. 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
well-made plays
Louis Daguerre
Africa
Total Theatre
17. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Hilarious Absurdism
onnagata
First Public Opera House
Jean-Paul Sartre
18. 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)
Samuel Beckett
George Bernard Shaw
First Public Opera House
Goethe
19. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bread and Puppet Theatre
musical comedy
Romantics
20. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Jukebox musicals
Lyricist
First Public Opera House
Minstrel Show Structure
21. 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
Bunraku movements
Minstrel Show Structure
Eugene O'Neill
Shadow Theatre
22. Built in Venice in 1637
First Public Opera House
Ha
Africa
Romantics
23. 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
Total Theatre
Kafkaesque
Natyasastra
Aristotelian
24. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Kordian (1962)
Naturalism
Comic opera
Sean O'Casey
25. Studied the history of class conflict
Regional Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
Naturalism
Domestic Tragedies
26. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Showstopper
Jo
A Dream Play (1902)
book musicals
27. 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
Louis Daguerre
Music
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
28. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Peking Opera
Lyrics
dance musicals
Goethe
29. 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
Problem plays
Samuel Beckett
Restoration
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
William Fox Talbot
Kordian (1962)
Avant-Garde
Wole Soyinka
31. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Alienation Effect
Blaise Pascal
Existentialism
32. 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)
Andre Antoine
Oscar Wilde
Shimpa
Ta'ziyeh
33. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
Man and Superman (1903)
Eugene O'Neill
Music
Non-Western Drama
34. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Samuel Beckett
Noh drama and Kabuki
Dance of the Forest
Africa
35. 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
Painted-face roles
Louis Daguerre
Beaumarchais
Noh drama and Kabuki
36. Most famous of the absurdist playwrights; best considered a fatalist - although work is sometimes hilarious and can ask existential questions; Endgame (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1961); Waiting for Godot (1953)
George Bernard Shaw
Samuel Beckett
Emile Zola
Restoration
37. 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
Melodrama
The Koran
Reprise
Showstopper
38. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kyu
Existentialism
William Fox Talbot
Operatic Musicals
39. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
musical
Bertolt Brecht
Aristotelian
Existential Absurdism
40. Only cost a nickel
women could legally appear on stages in England
Regional Theatre
Ha
Nickelodeons
41. 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
Louis Daguerre
Minstrel Show Structure
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sanskrit Drama
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
Precolonial African Theatre
The Interpretation of Dreams
Theatre of Cruelty
A Dream Play (1902)
43. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
rock musical
Existential Absurdism
The Interpretation of Dreams
Realism
44. 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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45. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
The Adding Machine (1923)
Aphra Behn
Blaise Pascal
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
46. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
musical comedy
Off Broadway
Non-Western Drama
Antonin Artaud
47. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
Realism
Communists took control
Book
48. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
Beaumarchais
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
rock musical
49. Writes the music
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
The Student Prince
Composer
Operetta
50. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Oscar Wilde
Reprise
Characters in the Peking Opera