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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Existentialism
Theatre of Cruelty
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Maxim Gorky
2. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Aphra Behn
Intermezzi
Noh drama
Jo
3. 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
Oscar Wilde
Peking Opera
Fatalist Absurdism
4. What western theatre is often called:
The Adding Machine (1923)
First Public Opera House
Expressionism
Aristotelian
5. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
Realism
The Living Theatre
Reprise
6. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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7. 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
Noh drama
Performance Art
Ha
Burlesque
8. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Living Theatre
overture
Theatre of Cruelty
Burlesque
9. 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)
Ki
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Non-Western Drama
10. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
Kyu
Alienation Effect
11. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Ha
musical
The Interpretation of Dreams
Precolonial African Theatre
12. Form of theatre that mixed traditional African ritual theatre and Western-style drama; encouraged African nationalism - glorified Africa's past - and advanced African customs - rituals - and culture; also dealt with serious political themes and appla
Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Western Drama
Total Theatre
13. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Off-Off-Broadway
Japanese Theatre
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Sentimental Comedies
14. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
Opera
Happenings
Eugene Ionesco
15. 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
Burlesque
Shimpa
overture
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
16. 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
Opera
Restoration
Kafkaesque
Aphra Behn
17. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
Variety Show
Intermezzi
Faust
18. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Opera
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Goethe
19. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Jean-Paul Sartre
Henrik Ibsen
Natyasastra
book musicals
20. A sudden - striking pose (often with their eyes crossed - chin sharply turned - and big toe pointed towards the sky) in Kabuki accompanied by several powerful beats of wooden clappers
Absurdism
Verfremdung
Mie pose
Peking Opera
21. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Kafkaesque
Bertolt Brecht
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
22. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Noh drama
Book
Comedy of Manners
23. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Precolonial African Theatre
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Realism
24. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Opera
Nickelodeons
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Variety Show
25. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
The Student Prince
Kordian (1962)
Revue (Musical Review)
26. Form of theatre that mixed traditional African ritual theatre and Western-style drama; encouraged African nationalism - glorified Africa's past - and advanced African customs - rituals - and culture; also dealt with serious political themes and appla
Total Theatre
Nell Gwynn
Showstopper
Eugene Ionesco
27. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Andre Antoine
Natyasastra
well-made plays
Communists took control
28. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Kabuki
Comic opera
Non-Western Drama
Showstopper
29. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
box set
Communists took control
Daguerreotype
30. Plays without music
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Straight Plays
Eugene Ionesco
Romantic Playwrights
31. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Ziegfield Follies
John Millington Synge
Minstrel Show Structure
32. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ritual Theatre
dance musicals
Minstrel Show
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
33. 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
The Enlightenment
The Jazz Singer
Minstrel Show Structure
Naturalism
34. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Naturalistic Plays
Kabuki
35. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Western Drama
The Living Theatre
Ki
Vaudeville
36. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Regional Theatre
Vaudeville
Fourth Room
Noh drama and Kabuki
37. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Hilarious Absurdism
Early European travelers and missionaries
women could legally appear on stages in England
38. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Surrealism
Fatalist Absurdism
Wole Soyinka
39. Writes the book
Noh drama
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Librettist
40. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Music
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
musical comedy
Minstrel Show
41. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Comedy of Manners
Andre Antoine
Book
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
42. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Wole Soyinka
Romantic Playwrights
Naturalism
Painted-face roles
43. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
The Student Prince
Composer
Blaise Pascal
Librettist
44. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Early European travelers and missionaries
Painted-face roles
box set
Existentialism
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
The Student Prince
Peking Opera
The Living Theatre
Friedrich Nietzsche
46. 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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Realism
Comedy of Manners
Kabuki
47. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Naturalism
Broadway Shows
Jean-Paul Sartre
48. 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
Showstopper
Off Broadway
A Trip to Coontown
Naturalism
49. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Friedrich Nietzsche
Vaudeville
well-made plays
50. 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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