Chinese and Japanese drama include this in early plays (background):
What is chorus/singing?
100
Suragaku
What is "Noh" Theater?
100
Beginning of Japanese Theater.
When is 1207?
200
A well known dramatist of Huaju plays
Who is Tian Han (T’ien Han) (1898–1968)?
200
Cao Yu (Ts’ao Yü) best known plays
What are Sunset, Thunderstorm and Desert?
200
Chinese and Japanese Theater both develop music from chorus to this effect:
What is orchestration/instrumentation?
200
The beginning of Kabuki Theater
When is 1603?
200
One of the most important figures in the whole history of the Japanese drama, and completely identified with the marionette theater.
Who is Chikamatsu Monzaemon?
300
Offical who set the guidelines for the Communist theater and proclaimed complete party control over the arts, a policy which reached its nightmarish culmination during the Cultural Revolution in 1966–1976
Who is Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) ?
300
Author of the play about the prime minister of an ancient state, who commits suicide by drowning himself.
Who is Guo Moruo?
300
Both Chinese and Japanese drama have these types of drama:
What are spoken (huaju) and song (geju)?
300
Two forms of Kabuki Theater
What are Popular and Aristocratic?
300
Short, full of delicate humor, and given in the language of the time without the chorus.
What is Kiogen?
400
So-called “Hundred Flowers Period”
What is "a rather liberal time?"
400
Stanislavsky’s method
What is actors should try to express psycho-realistically the “inner truth” of the individuals portrayed?
400
Drama development that Japanese theater had that Chinese did not as much.
What is employment of puppets.
400
Included in Marionette Theater
What are puppets?
400
Basic plot of a "Noh" play.
What is includes a traveler, a ghost appears, the traveler prays for the ghost, and the play ends with a song in praise of the ruling sovereign?
500
Drama that premiered in 1957
What is "The Precious Lotus Lamp"?
500
Björnson, Strindberg, Ibsen and Chekhov
Who are western dramatists?
500
Both cultures used actors to influence society, fashion (to each their own extant), and perform ideas in stylistically unique ways. What performance dress/wear/technique was used by Chinese more than Japanese?
What are mimes/painted-face/unspoken drama?
500
List two features(body parts) of puppets as they became more developed.
What are eyeballs and eyebrows could be moved, lips would seem to whisper or talk, and fingers would grasp a fan?