What is?
What are the WINGS?
Wings -Offstage areas on the side of the stage that are hidden to the audience.
Quad points (that means x4): In Medieval Times, what was the thing that actors would get thrown into if they were cast as the sinner that night?
H E L L M O U T H
Double Points: How many tragedies did competing playwrights have to present?
Extra 100 points if you can tell me what came after these tragedies.
3 Tragedies + A Satyr Play
STEAL 300 POINTS: What is the body position called when you are facing all the way to either stage right or stage left?
Profile
or
Left Profile
or
Right Profile
What is the Orchestra Pit?
This just in, Orchestra found in Orchestra Pit, more at 11.
Double Points: What is BLOCKING?
&
What is COMEDY?
BLOCKING- The precise placement and movement of actors on stage.
COMEDY - A play that uses humor or satire almost always ends happily.
Greek AMPHITHEATERS were built into what?
STEAL 200 POINTS FROM ANYONE: Who was the first actor?
Thespis
Double Points: What was a raked stage?
A slopped stage, a slanted stage
Where are the WINGS of a stage?
On the left and right side, or stage right and stage left.
What is a TRAGEDY?
A serious play about human flaws and fate, often ends sadly.
STEAL POINTS FROM ANYONE: During what period of time did we get the PROSCENIUM ARCH?
The Renaissance, a time when all arts flourished.
Dionysus is the Greek god of what?
Wine
Theater
Harvest
Joy/Party
Yes bro was the og party boi
What is the movement called when a director tells you to leave the stage?
Exiting
Double Points: What 2 ways can the Grand Drape open and close?
Guillotine Style (Up and down)
Traveler Style (Left and right
What is an AMPHITHEATER?
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What is the APRON?
AMPHITHEATER - A large, open-air, Theater built into a hillside for public performance.
APRON - The very front edge of the stage, closest to the audience.
In Medieval Times, who banned theater because they didn't like being made fun of?
Churches, Kings, and Queens.
Somebody clearly couldn't take a joke amirite?
Double Points: What was the prophecy that was given to Oedipus Rex in the play Oedipus Rex?
That he would kill his father and marry his mother.
kill dada, marry mama :o
If you were a director and you told an actor to exit stage right, are they moving to your left, or your right?
Where are the Catwalks located AND what are they used for?
High above the stage/audience. This is where they keep the lighting instruments.
What is the CHORUS?
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What is a PROSCENIUM ARCH?
CHORUS a group that sings, speaks, and moves together to comment on the story.
PROSCENIUM ARCH is a stage framed like a picture with audience on one side.
What was the show that Abraham Lincoln was watching when he got assassinated?
Our American Cousin
"but apart from that, how was the show, Mrs. Lincoln?"
What was City Dionysia?
A week long festival for theater. Playwrights would compete for most tragic story.
Abbreviate this blocking note: Cross to down stage right.
XDSR
Where is the booth located AND who is in it?
Located at the back of the theater, behind the audience. Stage Manager, Light Tech, Sound Tech