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Theatre Basics
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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
George Bernard Shaw
Broadway Shows
Romantics
Bread and Puppet Theatre
2. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Variety Show
musical comedy
John Millington Synge
George Bernard Shaw
3. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Fourth Room
Islamic Culture
Comedy of Manners
Revue (Musical Review)
4. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Music
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
musical
Naturalism
5. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Shakespeare's King John
Blaise Pascal
Daguerreotype
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
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)
Shakespeare's King John
Burlesque
Samuel Beckett
Realism
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)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Shimpa
Kordian (1962)
Minstrel Show
8. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
A Dream Play (1902)
3 components of Musical Scripts
Librettist
9. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Living Theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
rock musical
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
A Trip to Coontown
The Koran
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
The Black Crook
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
Nell Gwynn
The Adding Machine (1923)
Theatre of Cruelty
Romantic Playwrights
13. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Painted-face roles
Western Drama
Regional Theatre
non-Western Theatre
14. What western theatre is often called:
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
box set
Aristotelian
Highly Stylized Gestures
15. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Aphra Behn
Sean O'Casey
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Ta'ziyeh
16. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Book
Friedrich Nietzsche
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Romantic Playwrights
17. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Jukebox musicals
Kathakali
Harold Pinter
overture
18. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Lyrics
Japanese Theatre
Africa
Ziegfield Follies
19. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Painted-face roles
Intermezzi
Dadaism
Theatre of Cruelty
20. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Naturalistic Plays
Operatic Musicals
The Origin of the Cakewalk
rock musical
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)
Lorraine Handsberry
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
rock musical
A Dream Play (1902)
22. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Surrealism
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Faust
musical
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
Das Kapital
Restoration
Sanskrit Drama
Opera
24. The men who play female roles are called:
Lorraine Handsberry
Louis Daguerre
onnagata
First Public Opera House
25. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Kathakali
Ballad Operas
Communists took control
well-made plays
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
Early European travelers and missionaries
Non-Western Drama
Voltaire
Characters in the Peking Opera
27. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Shakuntala
Aristotelian
Ken Saro-Wiwa
28. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sentimental Comedies
Jo
Ha
29. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Ritual Theatre
Africa
Western Drama
First Public Opera House
30. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
First Public Opera House
Happenings
Symbolism
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
Kafkaesque
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
First Public Opera House
Louis Daguerre
32. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Faust
Sanskrit Drama
Melodrama
Bread and Puppet Theatre
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
Existentialism
Emile Zola
Noh drama
Dadaism
34. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Kordian (1962)
Melodrama
John Millington Synge
Poetic Realism
35. Studied the history of class conflict
Emile Zola
The Communist Manifesto
Highly Stylized Gestures
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
36. Book - music - and lyrics
Romantic Playwrights
Friedrich Nietzsche
3 components of Musical Scripts
Straight Plays
37. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
A Trip to Coontown
Sanskrit Drama
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Alienation Effect
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
Happenings
Ki
non-Western Theatre
Verfremdung
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'
Domestic Tragedies
Problem plays
Wole Soyinka
Composer
41. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Variety Show
Verfremdung
Noh drama
Voltaire
42. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Japanese Theatre
Comic opera
Noh drama
Minstrel Show
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
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Friedrich Nietzsche
Surrealism
Realism
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
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Goethe
Jo
Off Broadway
46. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
dance musicals
Off Broadway
Daguerreotype
Intermezzi
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
Theatre of Cruelty
Bertolt Brecht
Highly Stylized Gestures
Off Broadway
48. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
William Fox Talbot
Fatalist Absurdism
Revue (Musical Review)
Off Broadway
49. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Nell Gwynn
Operetta
Happenings
Ki
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
Lyrics
The Koran
Gotthold Lessing
Nell Gwynn