Realism/Naturalism
This is the name of the type of set that included flats representing walls inside a room doing away with seeing into the wings.
What is a Box Set?
Although Avant Garde translated literally to "front guard", these artists were said to be this.
What is "Ahead of their time?"
This phrase coined by Martin Esslin was attached to the meaning of "Absurd" Theatre.
What is "Without meaning"?
This term for a European blending of song and theatre that emerged in the late 1800's with an opera style of singing with dialogue between the songs.
What is an Operetta or Light Opera?
This was the type of musical where the story came first and was told by a combination of book, song and dance.
What is Integrated musical?
What famous Psychologist made an impact on the type of complex character we saw in Psychological Realism?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Name one objection to Realism shared by Avant Garde artists.
What is it was dull, language was boring, characters were flat, not a lot of action, or it wasn't theatrical?
This was the name of the movement following the fall out of World War II where writers like Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre asked bigger questions about our reasons for surviving and out of which Absurdism evolved.
What is Existentialism?
This composer and lyricist team flourished in London in the late 19th century with witty, satirical shows that featured patter songs found in such productions as THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE.
Who are Gilbert and Sullivan?
This was the name of the sequence of dance in Rodgers and Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA that changed the way in which dance told the story in musicals.
What is the dream ballet?
He was known as the father of Modern Drama and included stronger female characters, such as Nora in a Doll's House.
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
This aspect of Brechtian Theatre jarred the audience into thinking about watching a play to prevent a passive experience.
What is The Alienation effect?
This play by Samuel Beckett often described as an Absurd play, features characters wearing bowler hats passing the time in a post apocalyptic waste land.
What is WAITING FOR GODOT?
This was the name of the signature musical revue that Florenz Ziegfeld popularized on Broadway with lavish sets and a chorus line of exotically dressed girls.
What are The Follies?
This was the type of musical popularized in the late 1960's and early 1970's that was based on an idea rather than plot.
What is a Concept musical?
Characters in Naturalistic plays such as Strindberg's MISS JULIE were often in these kinds of confining situations.
What is being trapped or inherited products of their environment?
This Brechtian technique was an exaggerated action which demonstrates the imbalance of power and relationships within the class structure.
What is a Social Gest?
This Romanian Absurd playwright wrote RHINOCEROS.
Who is Eugene Ionesco?
This is the type of romantic musical comedy that was written for the stars of the early 20th century where music came first with not much story other than a boy meets girl, boy loses girl approach.
What is a Book Musical?
Name 2 Sung-through musicals we discussed with grand spectacle that were featured in the 1980's.
What are LES MISERABLES, CATS, EVITA, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, or MISS SAIGON?
This Russian playwright had his works directed at the Moscow Art Theatre by Stanislavski and wrote such plays as THE SEAGULL and THE CHERRY ORCHARD.
Who is Anton Chekhov?
Name two examples of Brechtian staging techniques that let the audience know they were watching a play.
What is use of technology onstage such as multi-media, exposure of the bare stage or lighting and other equipment; sign cards that introduced the setting, character or plot points; breaking into song; or breaking the fourth wall.
This is the name of the mythological figure characterized by Albert Camus who was said to be the quintessential absurd character.
Who is Sisyphus?
This was the subject matter that took place over an 8-minute period without any music in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's landmark 1927 musical, SHOW BOAT.
What is Miscegenation (a white man married to a mulatto woman)?
This is the musical style that distinguished Lin Manuel-Miranda's HAMILTON from most other musicals in recent years.
What is Rap/hip hop?