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Theatre Basics
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1. Writes the book
Librettist
William Fox Talbot
overture
Off-Off-Broadway
2. History plays about major political events of the past - domestic plays about the loves and lives of merchants and townspeople - and dance-dramas about the world of spirits and animals
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Shakespeare's King John
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Mie pose
3. 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)
Comedy of Manners
Opera
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Shimpa
4. Built in Venice in 1637
Sentimental Comedies
Voltaire
First Public Opera House
A Trip to Coontown
5. 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
Operetta
dance musicals
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sean O'Casey
6. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Bertolt Brecht
Antonin Artaud
7. 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
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Henrik Ibsen
Ta'ziyeh
8. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Melodrama
Regional Theatre
Communists took control
Kathakali
9. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Non-Western Drama
Eugene Ionesco
Off-Off-Broadway
10. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Opera
Ki
Islamic Culture
Fatalist Absurdism
11. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
rock musical
Vaudeville
Early European travelers and missionaries
William Fox Talbot
12. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Early European travelers and missionaries
The Jazz Singer
Peking Opera
Hilarious Absurdism
13. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Fourth Room
Problem plays
Ziegfield Follies
Operatic Musicals
14. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Lorraine Handsberry
Dadaism
musical comedy
Bunraku movements
15. Built in Venice in 1637
Wole Soyinka
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Henrik Ibsen
First Public Opera House
16. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
The Living Theatre
Alienation Effect
musical
Ha
17. 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
Surrealism
Romantics
Problem plays
Realism
18. 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
Comedy of Manners
Jean-Paul Sartre
Wole Soyinka
The Black Crook
19. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Little Theatre Movement
Aristotelian
Absurdism
Eugene O'Neill
20. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
The Student Prince
Sentimental Comedies
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Africa
21. No spoken dialogue - entirely sung; comes from the Latin word 'work' and may have originally meant 'works in music' or 'musical works for the stage'; first operas were in Italy in late 1500s
Jean-Paul Sartre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Opera
Noh drama
22. 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
Goethe
Realism
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Symbolism
23. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Naturalism
Lyrics
Kathakali
24. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Opera
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Living Theatre
25. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
box set
Bertolt Brecht
Voltaire
Little Theatre Movement
26. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Sanskrit Drama
Highly Stylized Gestures
Shimpa
Non-Western Drama
27. 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
Communists took control
Man and Superman (1903)
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
The Origin of the Cakewalk
28. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Ta'ziyeh
book musicals
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
29. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Characters in the Peking Opera
Variety Show
well-made plays
Opera
30. 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
Early European travelers and missionaries
Harold Pinter
A Dream Play (1902)
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
31. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Eugene O'Neill
The Jazz Singer
The Communist Manifesto
The Living Theatre
32. A repetition of the song - sometimes with new lyrics - sometimes with the same lyrics but with new meaning or subtext in order to make a dramatic point
Shakespeare's King John
Reprise
Minstrel Show
Faust
33. 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)
The Student Prince
Operetta
Kordian (1962)
Lyricist
34. The orchestrated melodies
Music
Africa
Man and Superman (1903)
Performance Art
35. Most famous surrealist and was a French writer and director; studied Asian religions - mysticism - and ancient cultures; declared theatre should should wake the nerves and heart; argued that proscenium arch theatres create a barrier between the audie
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Realism
Sentimental Comedies
Antonin Artaud
36. 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
Noh drama
Precolonial African Theatre
Chinese Theatre
Denis Diderot
37. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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38. The men who play female roles are called:
The Interpretation of Dreams
onnagata
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Sean O'Casey
39. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Nell Gwynn
Shakuntala
Das Kapital
Existentialism
40. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Goethe
Sanskrit Drama
Das Kapital
41. Grew up in poverty and put himself through medical school and set up free clinics in Russia to help the poor; The Seagull (1896) - Uncle Vanya (1899) Three Sisters (1901) & The Cherry Orchard (1904); placed on stage the lazy chaos of lives crushed by
Happenings
Realism
Anton Chekhov
Total Theatre
42. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Romantics
Domestic Tragedies
Noh drama
Kyu
43. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
Vaudeville
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Avant-Garde
44. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Das Kapital
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Painted-face roles
Western Drama
45. 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
A Dream Play (1902)
Comedy of Manners
Shadow Theatre
Domestic Tragedies
46. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
dance musicals
Shimpa
Emile Zola
Operetta
47. 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)
Precolonial African Theatre
Operetta
Wole Soyinka
Aphra Behn
48. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
box set
Ken Saro-Wiwa
William Fox Talbot
The Enlightenment
49. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Sentimental Comedies
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Dadaism
William Fox Talbot
50. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
rock musical
Domestic Tragedies
Shakuntala
Communists took control
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