Greek
the art form that is created when people perform
What is TheatRE?
Most plays performed in this time period came from this book.
What is the Bible?
The definition of Reniassance.
What is the revival or rebirth of art?
Where the musicians play during a show.
What is the Orchestra Pit?
The stage direction CLOSEST to the audience.
What is downstage?
The Greek God for Theatre
Who is Dionysus?
Plays that had a moral lesson for the audience.
What is a morality play?
The Queen during this time period.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
The Part of the stage that extends past the proscenium arch.
What is the Apron?
What is the Stages used to be slanted?
The first recorded actor
Who is Thespis?
The several small, temporary, hut-like houses that were each decorated differently to represent a different location.
What is a mansion?
He was allegedly a government spy.
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
The picture frame for the stage that separates the stage and the audience.
What is the Proscenium Arch?
The reason stage directions can be confusing.
What is they are the opposite for the audience? (always actor's POV)
Any play with a happy ending and most people alive at the end.
What is Comedy?
The central acting area in front of the mansion in Medieval Theatre.
What is a Platea?
The playwright of Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
A large, white or light-colored backdrop at the rear of the stage.
What is the Cyclorama (Cyc)?
What is 9?
The person who wrote Antigone
Who is Sophocles?
The main characters who represented everyone's name.
Who is Everyman or Mankind?
He famously killed another actor in a duel.
Who is Ben Johnson?
A series of ropes, pulleys, and counterweights that is used to raise and lower curtains, lights, and scenery.
What is the Fly System?
This is the FURTHEST from the audience.
What is Upstage?