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Theatre Basics
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1. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Nietzsche
Aristotelian
Noh drama and Kabuki
2. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Oscar Wilde
The Student Prince
rock musical
Melodrama
3. First part of a Noh Play - usually a chance meeting between two characters - introductions are made and the characters engage in a question-and-answer sequence that reveals the protagonist's concern
Bertolt Brecht
Jo
women could legally appear on stages in England
Kordian (1962)
4. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Happenings
Ki
Opera
5. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Bunraku movements
Melodrama
Operetta
Characters in the Peking Opera
6. 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
Existentialism
Dadaism
Voltaire
The Origin of the Cakewalk
7. 'The Father of Realism'; was initially a Romantic writer and his early plays were verse dramas largely based on Norwegian history and folk literature; plays presented complex - sometimes distrubing - views of human society; A Doll's House (1879) - Gh
The Interpretation of Dreams
Henrik Ibsen
Bertolt Brecht
Kafkaesque
8. Type of theatre that grew out of ritual - incorporated acting - music - storytelling - poetry - dance - costumes - and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama
Shavian Comedies
Precolonial African Theatre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Natyasastra
9. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Ballad Operas
Operetta
The Communist Manifesto
10. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
musical
Man and Superman (1903)
Minstrel Show Structure
Avant-Garde
11. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Andre Antoine
Operatic Musicals
Sentimental Comedies
Melodrama
12. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Africa
Wole Soyinka
The Student Prince
Shakuntala
13. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
non-Western Theatre
Lorraine Handsberry
Burlesque
Expressionism
14. 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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15. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Sean O'Casey
Bunraku movements
Noh drama
Dadaism
16. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Fatalist Absurdism
Man and Superman (1903)
Nell Gwynn
Alienation Effect
17. Earliest form for photography
Sean O'Casey
Maxim Gorky
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Daguerreotype
18. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Total Theatre
Operatic Musicals
19. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Librettist
Book
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Gotthold Lessing
20. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Realism
Natyasastra
Minstrel Show
Highly Stylized Gestures
21. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Painted-face roles
Non-Western Drama
Aphra Behn
22. 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
The Jazz Singer
Japanese Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
Henrik Ibsen
23. 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
The Student Prince
The Adding Machine (1923)
Oscar Wilde
Reprise
24. Book - music - and lyrics
Beaumarchais
Revue (Musical Review)
3 components of Musical Scripts
Romantic Playwrights
25. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
onnagata
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Regional Theatre
26. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Maxim Gorky
John Millington Synge
William Fox Talbot
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
27. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Shimpa
Andre Antoine
Hilarious Absurdism
Western Drama
28. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Book
Operatic Musicals
Ballad Operas
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
29. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Ken Saro-Wiwa
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Jean-Paul Sartre
30. 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)
Kathakali
Verfremdung
Shimpa
Kabuki
31. Known for life-like sets that used hand-painted screens and gas-powered lighting effects to stage realistic sunrises and storm clouds; invented the DAGUERREO-TYPE - which was an early form of photography
Islamic Culture
Louis Daguerre
well-made plays
Straight Plays
32. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Ballad Operas
Friedrich Nietzsche
Painted-face roles
33. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Romantics
Man and Superman (1903)
Realism
Kordian (1962)
34. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Samuel Beckett
Shavian Comedies
Chinese Theatre
Islamic Culture
35. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Dance of the Forest
Opera
Avant-Garde
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
36. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
Existentialism
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Beaumarchais
37. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Avant-Garde
Symbolism
Harold Pinter
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
38. 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
Jo
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Absurdism
39. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Kathakali
Bread and Puppet Theatre
The Interpretation of Dreams
Hilarious Absurdism
40. Plays without music
Lyricist
Straight Plays
The Adding Machine (1923)
box set
41. 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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42. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Voltaire
Blaise Pascal
John Millington Synge
Jo
43. 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
Anton Chekhov
Shavian Comedies
Vaudeville
Minstrel Show Structure
44. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Andre Antoine
The Jazz Singer
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Minstrel Show Structure
45. 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
Vaudeville
musical
Minstrel Show Structure
46. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Eugene Ionesco
The Enlightenment
Fourth Room
Showstopper
47. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Natyasastra
Ha
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
48. 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
Goethe
Avant-Garde
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Adding Machine (1923)
49. 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
Mie pose
The Black Crook
Kyu
Das Kapital
50. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Naturalism