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Theatre Basics

Subject : performing-arts
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling






2. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers






3. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene






4. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear






5. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism






6. 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)






7. 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)






8. The men who play female roles are called:






9. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre






10. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years

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11. 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






12. 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






13. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life






14. What western theatre is often called:






15. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays






16. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts






17. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs






18. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway






19. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera






20. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic






21. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)






22. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)






23. Form of drama that dominated theatre in India for a thousand years; named for the ancient Indian language in which its plays are performed; combine the natural and the supernatural - the believable and unbelievable






24. The men who play female roles are called:






25. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:






26. 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






27. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa






28. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern






29. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence






30. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts






31. 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






32. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism






33. 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






34. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language






35. Studied the history of class conflict






36. Book - music - and lyrics






37. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights






38. 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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39. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki






40. 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'






41. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect






42. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual






43. 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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44. 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






45. 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






46. Feature the work of a director-choreographer






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






48. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources






49. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered






50. 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