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Theatre Basics
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1. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Vaudeville
dance musicals
Communists took control
Existentialism
2. Book - music - and lyrics
Problem plays
3 components of Musical Scripts
Chinese Theatre
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
3. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Realism
Emile Zola
Opera
Painted-face roles
4. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Ballad Operas
William Fox Talbot
Antonin Artaud
Book
5. 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
Jo
overture
Naturalism
Ballad Operas
6. 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
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kyu
Harold Pinter
Theatre of Cruelty
7. Three parts of a Noh play
Ballad Operas
Kyu
3 components of Musical Scripts
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
8. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
First Public Opera House
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Kordian (1962)
9. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Comic opera
Shadow Theatre
Fatalist Absurdism
The Student Prince
10. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Denis Diderot
Mie pose
Broadway Shows
Natyasastra
11. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Islamic Culture
Louis Daguerre
Daguerreotype
Africa
12. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Minstrel Show Structure
Peking Opera
Sanskrit Drama
13. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Happenings
Faust
Denis Diderot
14. 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
Noh drama
Realism
Reprise
Aristotelian
15. 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)
Operetta
rock musical
Ziegfield Follies
Sentimental Comedies
16. 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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17. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Gotthold Lessing
Surrealism
Music
18. 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
Verfremdung
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Nell Gwynn
Realism
19. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
The Living Theatre
Jo
Ballad Operas
Opera
20. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Gotthold Lessing
Domestic Tragedies
Islamic Culture
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
21. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Revue (Musical Review)
Faust
Existentialism
book musicals
22. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Ha
Early European travelers and missionaries
Composer
Ki
23. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Naturalism
Bunraku movements
Western Drama
Opera
24. Wrote 'high comedies' which were cerebral socially relevant plays that had an intellectual scope so vast they forced audiences to reassess their values; Man and Superman (1903) & The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Kyu
Little Theatre Movement
George Bernard Shaw
Antonin Artaud
25. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
rock musical
Ritual Theatre
Off Broadway
Faust
26. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
The Communist Manifesto
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Showstopper
27. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Performance Art
Variety Show
Surrealism
Ziegfield Follies
28. 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
Non-Western Drama
Mie pose
Naturalism
Shakespeare's King John
29. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Comic opera
Shakuntala
Anton Chekhov
Jean-Paul Sartre
30. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
box set
Sanskrit Drama
Problem plays
The Communist Manifesto
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
Operetta
Problem plays
Minstrel Show Structure
Surrealism
32. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Maxim Gorky
Das Kapital
Librettist
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
33. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Jukebox musicals
Noh drama and Kabuki
dance musicals
Gotthold Lessing
34. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
musical
Voltaire
Comic opera
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
35. One of the most important French philosophers of the Age of Reason - wrote and edited the first encyclopedia; was also a dramatist who penned books on the techniques of acting; authored The Paradox of Acting - a book that attached the pompous declama
Sentimental Comedies
Jo
Denis Diderot
onnagata
36. 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
Antonin Artaud
Verfremdung
Total Theatre
Maxim Gorky
37. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Reprise
Naturalistic Plays
Jo
38. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Ki
Denis Diderot
Natyasastra
39. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Broadway Shows
Ha
Reprise
Kathakali
40. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Symbolism
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kyu
Wole Soyinka
41. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Chinese Theatre
Shakespeare's King John
Bunraku movements
Eugene O'Neill
42. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
Africa
Peking Opera
Ziegfield Follies
43. Earliest form for photography
Performance Art
Kabuki
Reprise
Daguerreotype
44. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Japanese Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
Shavian Comedies
Africa
45. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Andre Antoine
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Harold Pinter
Ballad Operas
46. Attacked the evils and restrictions of society; tried to reveal the higher reality of the unconscious mind with fantastic imagery and contradictory images; performances were often violent and cruel as they tried to shock the audience into the realiza
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
well-made plays
Surrealism
musical
47. 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
The Living Theatre
Regional Theatre
overture
3 components of Musical Scripts
48. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Restoration
Shakespeare's King John
Dance of the Forest
Off Broadway
49. 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
Domestic Tragedies
Painted-face roles
First Public Opera House
Eugene O'Neill
50. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
Off Broadway
box set
Burlesque
Bread and Puppet Theatre