Stage Terminology
This role in the theatre is in charge of storytelling through lights.
What is the Lighting Designer
The city that is the origin of theatre
What is Athens?
This institution was the reason that Roman and Greek theatre was declared too pagan and banned.
What is the Catholic Church?
Shakespeare was christened on this day
What is April 26, 1564
The restoration of which English Institution is the "Restoration Theatre Era" is named.
What is the Restoration of the English Monarchy?
Moving toward the audience moves you in this direction
What is downstage
The area of a greek theatre where the orchestra would perform
What is the Orchestra?
Utilizing gladiatorial matches and naval battles, this type of visual event eventually led to the decline of theatres in the Roman Empire
What is Spectacle?
This type of play dramatizes major historical events in England.
What is a history play?
This type of Victorian Theatre utilizes over-the-top comedy.
What is a farce?
The role in the theatre in charge of producing several productions in a season.
What is an artistic director?
The protagonist of a Greek Tragedy.
What is a Tragic Hero?
This Empire kept Greek and Roman Theatre alive.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
This Playwright inspired William Shakespeare.
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
Theatre was utilized as propaganda during this nation's fight for Independence from England.
What is the American Colonies?
The role in the theatre in charge of fundraising.
What is the development manager?
The idea is that primitive hunter-gatherers would tell each other the story of the hunt.
What is the Theory of the Origins of Theatre?
This type of medieval play utilized allegory and personification in order to spread good morals and actions.
What is a Morality Play?
The form of carriage and movement present in Commedia del'Arte.
What is Lazzi?
This type of Victorian play uses intense technical elements.
What is a Spectacle?
While facing the audience, moving towards the audience and then to the audience's left.
What is downstage right?
The City Dionysia
What is the Athenian Festival to Dionysus?
The Catholic Nun who is credited with the creation of the first musical story in the Medieval era?
Who is Hildegarde of Bingen?
Commedia del Arte was solidified this year in this country.
What is Italy in the 1550s
The increase in theatre as an art form is due to three primary reasons: the boom of theatre building, the rise of colonization, and this major shift in the economy
What is the Industrial Revolution?