Parts of the Theater
This is the name for the rounded seating area that surrounded the stage in Greek theaters.
What is a theatron?
This element is made up of the events that occur during the story.
What is plot?
This action by Jason caused Medea to be in great distress.
What is leaving her for another wife?
In Greco-Roman theatre, this type of play was known for being low brow and featuring many licentious acts.
What is mime?
This was a small group of people in Greek tragedies who served to voice the thoughts of the townspeople, Greek culture, or occasionally move the plot.
What is the chorus?
This was a device used to lower characters onto the stage, usually gods.
What is the machina?
This element is the use of language; Euripides favored mixed use of high and low language.
What is diction?
This is the city in which the action of Medea tales place.
What is Corinth?
This was generally worn by the sole actors in a pantomime play.
What are two-sided masks?
One of this famous star's works is the silent film, The Dentist.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
Introduced in the play The Oresteia, this was a temporary structure built at the back of the stage to add different stage entrances and usually had a roof or second floor.
What is a skene?
This element is comprised of the musical score and the songs sung by the chorus.
What is song?
This is the problem for which the king of Athens seeks counsel from the Oracle at Delphi.
What is infertility?
These plays originally featured songs and dances, along with some dialogue.
What are mime plays?
Early Greek theatre competitions were a part of festivals worshipping this god.
Who is Dionysus?
These characters usually performed their scenes on the roof or second story of the skene.
What are the gods?
What is spectacle?
This scene is the major turning point in the plot of Medea.
What is the conversation between Medea and the king of Athens?
Who is Emmett Kelly?
These types of plays were shorter than tragedies, were meant to stand alone, and generally featured people rather than gods or mythology.
What are comedies?
These were often in the center of the orchestra area.
What are altars?
This element is comprised of the reasoning and motivations seen from the characters' speeches and dialogue.
What is thought?
The ending of Medea, in which Medea is swept away in the chariot of the sun god Helios is an example of this type of ending.
What is Deus ex machina?
This country is considered to be the birthplace of the most celebrated modern-day mime artistry.
What is France?
These plays popular in the Victorian era were plot-less epilogues to the main pantomimes and featured stock characters.
What are Harlequinade plays?