History
This is considered the first play, in the Western Dramatic Tradtion.
What is the Abydos Passion Play?
This is the place where the actors would perform on a greek stage.
What is the Orchestra?
This is the lighting position on the sides of the audience area.
What is the box boom?
This was Shakespeare's fathers profession...
What is a glover?
HE wrote A dolls House
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
The Abydos Passion play tells the story of these characters.
Who is Isis and Osiris?
This is the location a Greek theater would likely be built.
what is the side of a hill?
This is the entrance area from the audience area to the stage, from the Romans.
What is the Vomitorium?
This describes ideas which are opposites to one another in Shakespearean text.
He wrote The Seagull*
Who is Chekov
These are the stationary houses that would be constructed in the city center representing different locations.
What are mansions?
This technology, or building style, allowed the Romans to build their theater almost anywhere.
what is freestanding architecture.
This is often the furthest upstage curtain and used to help create lighting effects, and background images.
What is the Cyc, or cyclorama?
This is how many feet are in a line of Iamibic Pentameter.
What is five?
His theories of acting are still central and looked to.
Who is Stanislavski?
This is the a puppet theater out of Japan.*
What is Bunraku?
The fall of this civilization signaled the start of the medieval ages.
who are the Romans?
This is the device that a performer may use on stage to amplify their voice
What is a microphone?
this is how many syllables are in an iamb (foot) in Iambic Pentameter.
What is two?
This is the imaginary wall which actors pretend is present.
What is the Forth Wall?
This is the title given to theater performed from the pulpit, often in Latin.
What is liturgical drama?
this playwright wrote Medea (not the Tyler Perry movie).
Who is Seneca?
This is the area where a band may perform for a musical.
What is the orchestra pit?
This is what Brutus was.
What is an Honorable man.
This Russian theater, and school, was partially founded by Stanislavski and become a pillar of realism education.
What is the Moscow Art School?