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Showboat was the first book musical.

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The Theatre of Cruelty is aimed to grab the audiences attention put them in the middle of the scenario, forcing them to engage mentally.

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Constructivism is the uncovering of how the world we know is socially constructed, generated from knowledge and meaning from interactions between experience and ideas.

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Expressionism is the distorting and exaggerated angles, intense color, and a sense of terror or foreboding.

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It grew out from ritual festivals connected to ancestor worship.

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was light opera with small amounts of spoken dialogue, comedic, and had people with trained voices.

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The big difference between symbolism and surrealism is surrealism isn't supposed to make sense, while symbolism has meaning behind everything.

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Was centered around fallibility of define truth

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West African storyteller

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Theatre used in Africa to educate small

communities.

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aka "pop opera", characterized by having little or no spoken dialogue.

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Catchy songs were put in the play, but didn’t necessarily help the plot, these songs became immensely popular, and were later known as the American Songbook.

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The name of travelling theatre groups of the Yoruba people, largely in Nigeria, Africa. Their style grew out of ritual observances of the dead.

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The songs and dances are an integral part of the plot.

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Nigerian playwright who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote Death and the King’s Horseman.

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Most of the evidence we have of theatre-like activities comes from European accounts and Christian and Islamic missionaries.

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Dramatizations of the authors’ inner sense of the absurdity and futility of existence. Plays with circular plot.

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Represented fractured, abstracted versions of life. Geometric shapes.

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Brecht plays are episodic, with narrative songs separating the segments and large posters or signs announcing the various scenes.

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Originally a comic variety show for mixed audiences, became overwhelmingly a male entertainment.

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Romantic Plays tended to appeal to emotions rather than intellect. Used in theatre artistically with a deeper meaning.

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Theatre in Africa is mostly influenced by European accounts and Christian and Islamic missionaries because of the European colonization of Africa.

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Is a type of multi- act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches.

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Operetta, Vaudeville, Burlesque, Revue, Book musical, Integrated musical, American musical.

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Based on a collection of popular songs written by a well-known composer or associated with a particular singer or musical group.

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Is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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The Protagonist’s distorted perception of the world. Distorted sets.

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form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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The subconscious was the main source of truth. Dream-like plays.

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The use of symbols to represent different meanings.

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Chapter 12

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Chapter 11

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A large west-African ethnic group that shares a common religion and cultural practices

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Chapter 10