Types and Parts of the stage
Theatre History
Prominent Figures
General Knowledge
Name that Play/Musical
100
What is the most common type of stage in the world
Proscenium
100
What group of people popularized theatre?
The Greeks
100
Who was known as the "first actor"
Thespis
100
What do we say in theatre instead of Good Luck
Break a Leg
100
A vicar’s wife, a bunch of people with questionable identities, and approximately 47 doors participate in the world’s most aggressively British game of “wait, who is that?”
See How They Run
200
What is the name of the metal pipe used in order to hang scenery in a theatre.
A Batten
200
What is the name of the Italian based Theatre movement that focused on stock characters, physical slapstick comedy, and improvisation.
Commedia Dell'Arte
200
Who invented Method Acting?
Konstantin Stanislavski
200
Stage Directions are always given from whose perspective?
The Actors
200
Two teenagers fall in love, their families are extremely unhelpful about it, and everyone makes several catastrophically bad decisions over the course of one weekend.
Romeo and Juliet
300
What is the name of the area on stage that is directly in front to the main curtain in a theatre that is typically used for transitional scenes.
The Apron
300
When were women allowed to start performing on stage?
1660 The Restoration Period
300
How many plays is Shakespeare credited with writing?
38/39
300
What is the longest running play on the west end?
Agatha Christies The Mouse Trap
300
Two college roommates become best friends, have wildly different career trajectories, and one of them gets blamed for a weather-related public relations disaster.
Wicked
400
What is the name of the large piece of Muslin fabric hung across the extreme upstage area used to represent the sky, and projections in recent times?
The Cyclorama
400
This 1879 play, about a seemingly perfect marriage that begins to unravel, is considered one of the landmark works that brought realism and contemporary social issues to the modern stage. What is the play?
A Dolls House
400
This American playwright created some of the most psychologically intense characters in American drama, including Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski, and Amanda Wingfield.
Tennessee Williams
400
What is the difference in meaning between TheatRE and TheatER
Re- Is the act of doing theatre
Er - Is representative of the building itself.
400
A linguistics experiment accidentally becomes a makeover show, and everyone learns that changing how someone talks is apparently a reasonable way to change their entire life.
My Fair Lady
500
What is the oldest known fixed type of staging?
The Thrust stage
500
This 20th-century theatrical movement broke away from traditional realistic storytelling and often used fragmented scenes, absurd situations, and unconventional characters to reflect the uncertainty and anxiety of the modern world.
Theatre of The Absurd
500
Who was the first professional female playwright?
Aphra Behn
500
What particular piece of equipment is traditionally left on when everyone leaves a theatre. Ironically, its original purpose had less to do with spirits and more to do with preventing someone from taking an unexpected trip into the orchestra pit. Name it.
Ghost Light
500
Two men have a remarkably uneventful day while discussing life, death, memory, vegetables, and whether they should go somewhere else.
Waiting for Godot