Playwrights
Trivia
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Drama Class Trivia
100

What is the name of the Playwright that wrote The Three Musketeers?

Who is Alexander Dumas?

100

What is the most popular type of Romanticism?

What is melodrama?

100

Romanticism was the major literary and artistic from during most of the _____ century.

What is the 19th?

100

Where does the most important scenes on stage happen?

What is Downstage right?

200

Who wrote the famous play Faust?

Who is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

200

Where did Romanticism began?

What is Germany?

200

Alexander Dumas made play versions of his famous novels The Three Musketeers and The ______ of Monte Cristo.

What is Count?

200

What is the thing called that's in front of the stage that hides the orchestra?

What is the pit?

300

Who wrote about political and social issues of the time?

Who is George Bernard Shaw?

300

True or False. The hero in a melodrama always lost?

False. The hero in a melodrama always succeeded. 

300

The theatres showed fires, floods, eathrquakes, horse races, and even ________ on stage.

What is train crashes?

300

What is a stage that surrounds the audience by three sides, the fourth side serves as the background?

What is a Thrust Theatre?

400

Who wrote about the changing society of Russia?

Who is Anton Chekhov?

400

What was one of Ibsen's most important plays?

What is Hedda Gabler, An Enemy of the People and A Doll's House?

400

These heroes relied on _______ and feelings to guide them.

What is emotions?

400

What was one of the first dances we learned in class?

 What is September?

500

Who was the first major Realistic playwright?

Who is Henrik Ibsen?

500

Who created the new approach to the Realistic acting called "The Method".

Who is Constantin Stanislavsky?

500

Realism often dealt with _____problems.

What is social?

500

What is the stage called where the audience is placed on either side of the playing space?

What profile Theatres?

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