Definitions
How and Why Study Theatre?
Dionysus' Wild Cards
Final Jeopardy
100
What does the word ephemeral mean?
It lasts only a short time
100
What are some reasons to study theatre?
It tells us about theatre today, it educates future artists, and it provides insights into the past
100
What is role playing? 👀
Judges choice whether answer is acceptable
100
What two things helped the Greeks live as long as they did?
Wine and women
200
What is methexis?
Group sharing
200
Why is it difficult to determine what constitutes significance in theatre history?
What is valued now may not match what was valued in the tradition's own time
200
What are the four visual elements of theatre?
Sets, costumes, lights, and props
300
What does efficaciousness mean?
Intended to achieve results
300
To understand audiences in theatre history, scholars ask questions about _______, __________, and ______.
Gender, race, and class
300
Dionysus Daily Double!
Because Islam prohibits the personification of God, there is no theatre in places where Islam is practiced
400
What is a revisionist historian?
Someone who points out biases in how we interpret history and challenges how history has been presented
400
Postmodernism questions that there is an objective reality and ...?
The divisions between high and low art
400
Theatrical elements can also be found in __________ activities
Therapeutic
500
What does a semiotician study?
Symbols
500
Which are thought to be the three possible origins of theatre?
Imitation, role playing, and storytelling
500
What group from Elizabethan England was a religious group that opposed the theatre?
Puritans