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Theatre Basics
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1. Most popular type of theatre during the Restoration; often featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification - bedroom escapades - and humankind's unrefined nature when it comes to sex
John Millington Synge
Early European travelers and missionaries
Poetic Realism
Comedy of Manners
2. 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
The Koran
John Millington Synge
Ken Saro-Wiwa
3. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Antonin Artaud
The Jazz Singer
Denis Diderot
dance musicals
4. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Intermezzi
well-made plays
Domestic Tragedies
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
5. 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
The Living Theatre
Emile Zola
Problem plays
Wole Soyinka
6. 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
Absurdism
Minstrel Show
Verfremdung
Chinese Theatre
7. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Dadaism
Nell Gwynn
Off Broadway
8. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Theatre of Cruelty
Ta'ziyeh
Sentimental Comedies
Samuel Beckett
9. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Dadaism
Vaudeville
Ki
Characters in the Peking Opera
10. 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
Chinese Theatre
box set
Verfremdung
Romantic Playwrights
11. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Problem plays
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Africa
Reprise
12. 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
The Student Prince
Blaise Pascal
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man and Superman (1903)
13. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Fatalist Absurdism
Shakespeare's King John
Man and Superman (1903)
Peking Opera
14. 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
Composer
Ki
Minstrel Show Structure
The Origin of the Cakewalk
15. 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'
Early European travelers and missionaries
Andre Antoine
Operetta
Problem plays
16. 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
Sanskrit Drama
Shadow Theatre
musical comedy
Symbolism
17. 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
Hilarious Absurdism
Happenings
Little Theatre Movement
Expressionism
18. Term used to describe performances that mix theatre - visual arts - music - dance - gesture and rituals; often use multimedia effects - sounds and lighting effects to make a point and allow the audience to understand its deeper implications; often re
Jo
Performance Art
Realism
Showstopper
19. 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
Off-Off-Broadway
Samuel Beckett
Existentialism
20. 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)
George Bernard Shaw
Avant-Garde
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Ken Saro-Wiwa
21. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Broadway Shows
Dadaism
Fatalist Absurdism
Showstopper
22. Writes the lyrics
Eugene O'Neill
Existentialism
Daguerreotype
Lyricist
23. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
The Jazz Singer
Kafkaesque
musical comedy
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
24. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Samuel Beckett
Emile Zola
Painted-face roles
Noh drama and Kabuki
25. 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)
Shimpa
Noh drama
Beaumarchais
Shakespeare's King John
26. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Librettist
box set
Wole Soyinka
Existential Absurdism
27. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
Western Drama
Henrik Ibsen
Ritual Theatre
28. Writes the book
Noh drama and Kabuki
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
rock musical
Librettist
29. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Restoration
Kafkaesque
Highly Stylized Gestures
30. Greatest of the Sturm und Drang playwrights; was also a critic - journalist - painter - biologist - statesman - poet - novelist - philosopher - scientist - and the manager of the Duke of Weimar's playhouse
Peking Opera
Goethe
Samuel Beckett
Dadaism
31. 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
Opera
Naturalistic Plays
Louis Daguerre
Natyasastra
32. 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
The Adding Machine (1923)
Avant-Garde
Librettist
33. Built in Venice in 1637
Showstopper
First Public Opera House
Melodrama
Sanskrit Drama
34. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
Western Drama
Friedrich Nietzsche
book musicals
35. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Broadway Shows
Symbolism
Fatalist Absurdism
Nell Gwynn
36. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
The Enlightenment
Gotthold Lessing
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Comedy of Manners
37. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
The Living Theatre
Islamic Culture
Kafkaesque
38. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Shakuntala
Noh drama and Kabuki
Burlesque
Poetic Realism
39. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Eugene Ionesco
Man and Superman (1903)
Harold Pinter
Operetta
40. Only cost a nickel
rock musical
Jukebox musicals
Existential Absurdism
Nickelodeons
41. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Sentimental Comedies
non-Western Theatre
Nell Gwynn
Operatic Musicals
42. 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
Surrealism
Librettist
Problem plays
43. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Opera
Naturalism
Existential Absurdism
Minstrel Show Structure
44. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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45. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Lorraine Handsberry
Maxim Gorky
The Student Prince
Harold Pinter
46. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Faust
Performance Art
The Living Theatre
Japanese Theatre
47. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
Alienation Effect
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Sean O'Casey
48. Three parts of a Noh play
overture
Composer
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
onnagata
49. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dadaism
Noh drama
Aristotelian
50. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Sentimental Comedies
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Book
John Millington Synge