Early/Renaissance
Where did the Renaissance start?
What is Italy?
USA's main contribution to drama and theater.
What is broadway?
Role of Greek Chorus
What is to narrate the play, interact with actors?
What is a play that takes a more realistic/down to earth approach to the problems that occur?
What is an example of low comedy?
What is your mom?
Who is recognized as the first actor in history?
What is Thespis?
the first professional theater company
What is the American Company?
A BLANK is a genre of drama or literature, originating in ancient Greece, that depicts serious, sorrowful events, focusing on a noble protagonist's downfall caused by personal flaws, moral failings, or fate.
What is tragedy?
Theater of absurd...
What is productions that are focus on how ridiculous human hope is, based on the randomness of the universe?
What are stock characters?
What is characters who are stereotypes and appear frequently across productions (brawny soldier)?
What is the name for the “small hut” at the back of the acting area?
What is skene?
Describe the different levels of the Globe Theater
What is the three different levels. Third level was for the musicians. Acting areas on all three levels. Heaven (above the third level) featured the "sky". Royalty would sit on the main stage in chairs. Groundlings, "the poor", stood on the ground.
What makes a character a tragic hero?
What is noble status, the reversal of wealth, a big weakness, or excessive pride or overconfidence?
In recent years BLANK has been especially popular amongst drama being portrayed towards younger audiences.
What is Puppet Theater?
What are two differences between tragedy and comedy?
What is comedy is predictably unpredictable? What is the protagonist ends in success/achieves their goal?
Renaissance means...
What is rebirth?
BLANK is the oldest genre of drama in the world. All actors are men acting out short, simple plots.
What is noh theater?
What are “The Humors” of the human body? Not specifically, but in general, what are they?
What is biles and balances inside of the body that, if there was an inbalance in humors, illness occurs.
In a BLANK, a crime (typically a murder) takes place, and one character takes the role of investigator. One person committed the crime, and are often trying to blame someone else.
What is whodunnit?
A plant...
What is something that you set up early in a production and come back to, turning it into a running gag?
The “Drama Masks” originate from where?
What is Greece? Or Greek Drama
BLANK is a genre of Japanese drama that utilizes wooden marionettes controlled by three people.
What is Bunraku?
Woah...
That's tragic?
What are the 5, or 6, or 7 parts that make up the plot? (Think plot diagram)
What is the exposition, (initial conflict), rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
What is the distinction between low, middle, and high comedy?
What is low comedy is cheap hits, but high comedy is high brow intellectual jokes?