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Theatre Basics
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1. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Problem plays
Kyu
Fourth Room
Off-Off-Broadway
2. A dialogue that captures the incoherence - broken language - and pauses of modern speech; usually marked by surreal distortion and impending danger; from writing of Franz Kafka
Kafkaesque
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Happenings
box set
3. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
George Bernard Shaw
Avant-Garde
Vaudeville
The Living Theatre
4. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Japanese Theatre
Verfremdung
Melodrama
Ki
5. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Anton Chekhov
Operatic Musicals
Kyu
Existentialism
6. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Kordian (1962)
Opera
Beaumarchais
Bunraku movements
7. Attacked the evils and restrictions of society; tried to reveal the higher reality of the unconscious mind with fantastic imagery and contradictory images; performances were often violent and cruel as they tried to shock the audience into the realiza
The Enlightenment
Surrealism
Alienation Effect
Dance of the Forest
8. 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
Antonin Artaud
musical
box set
William Fox Talbot
9. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Highly Stylized Gestures
Naturalistic Plays
Characters in the Peking Opera
Aphra Behn
10. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Beaumarchais
Book
Comic opera
Wole Soyinka
11. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Problem plays
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Painted-face roles
Characters in the Peking Opera
12. 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)
Reprise
Shimpa
Henrik Ibsen
musical
13. 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
Emile Zola
Das Kapital
Wole Soyinka
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
14. 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
Realism
Minstrel Show
Denis Diderot
Shakuntala
15. 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
Anton Chekhov
Expressionism
Gotthold Lessing
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
16. Light opera - differs from 'grand opera' because it has a frivolous - comic theme - some spoken dialogue - a melodramatic story - and usually a little dancing; The Mikado (1885)
Western Drama
Composer
Operetta
George Bernard Shaw
17. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Oscar Wilde
Operetta
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
18. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
box set
Ki
Kafkaesque
Absurdism
19. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
rock musical
Librettist
Kordian (1962)
Wole Soyinka
20. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
onnagata
Librettist
Voltaire
Maxim Gorky
21. The sung words
Shadow Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
Romantics
Lyrics
22. Attacked the evils and restrictions of society; tried to reveal the higher reality of the unconscious mind with fantastic imagery and contradictory images; performances were often violent and cruel as they tried to shock the audience into the realiza
Broadway Shows
Surrealism
Shakuntala
The Jazz Singer
23. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Off-Off-Broadway
Happenings
24. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
The Adding Machine (1923)
Nell Gwynn
musical comedy
non-Western Theatre
25. 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)
The Black Crook
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Samuel Beckett
Revue (Musical Review)
26. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
The Koran
Ken Saro-Wiwa
box set
Jean-Paul Sartre
27. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Jukebox musicals
Aphra Behn
A Trip to Coontown
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
28. 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
Regional Theatre
Shakuntala
The Koran
Revue (Musical Review)
29. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Jo
Problem plays
Kathakali
Bunraku movements
30. First part of a Noh Play - usually a chance meeting between two characters - introductions are made and the characters engage in a question-and-answer sequence that reveals the protagonist's concern
Mie pose
Jo
William Fox Talbot
Henrik Ibsen
31. Writes the music
Composer
Operatic Musicals
First Public Opera House
Aphra Behn
32. 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)
The Black Crook
Naturalistic Plays
Characters in the Peking Opera
Samuel Beckett
33. 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
Kathakali
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Expressionism
Kyu
34. The men who play female roles are called:
Verfremdung
Surrealism
Existential Absurdism
onnagata
35. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Existential Absurdism
Alienation Effect
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Kabuki
36. The sung words
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lyrics
Hilarious Absurdism
Henrik Ibsen
37. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Fatalist Absurdism
Jukebox musicals
Off-Off-Broadway
38. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Shadow Theatre
Nell Gwynn
Variety Show
women could legally appear on stages in England
39. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
Gotthold Lessing
Africa
Revue (Musical Review)
40. Light opera - differs from 'grand opera' because it has a frivolous - comic theme - some spoken dialogue - a melodramatic story - and usually a little dancing; The Mikado (1885)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Kordian (1962)
Existential Absurdism
Operetta
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
Romantic Playwrights
Precolonial African Theatre
Operatic Musicals
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
42. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Voltaire
Eugene Ionesco
Restoration
Variety Show
43. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Characters in the Peking Opera
dance musicals
Shavian Comedies
book musicals
44. 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'
Harold Pinter
Bunraku movements
Anton Chekhov
Problem plays
45. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Broadway Shows
Highly Stylized Gestures
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
46. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Japanese Theatre
Lyrics
Shakuntala
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
47. 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
Maxim Gorky
Bertolt Brecht
Theatre of Cruelty
Painted-face roles
48. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
book musicals
Naturalism
Lorraine Handsberry
Eugene O'Neill
49. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Realism
musical comedy
The Communist Manifesto
Eugene Ionesco
50. 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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