Greek Theatre
Acting Around the World
Shakespeare
Musicals
Theatre Terms
100
Theatre began as a festival to which god/goddess?
Dionysus
100
Which style of theatre includes cypress wood masks?
Noh
100
Medieval plays focused largely on what?
Religion
100
What is an overture?
An instrumental piece at the opening of a show
100
What are the sections of a play called?
Acts
200
Who was known as the “Father of Tragedy”?
Aeschylus
200
Which style of theatre is famous for “stock characters”?
Commedia dell’Arte
200
Name a theatre during the Elizabethan period
The Globe
The Rose
The Swan
The Theatre
200
What show is considered the first complete musical on Broadway?
Show Boat
200
What stage is sloped, with the back raised higher than the front.
Raked Stage
300
What major series of works did Aeschylus write?
The Oresteia
300
Which style of theater combines mime, drumming, and dance?
Yoruba
300
What play was the first Shakespearean play to be produced?
Henry VI
300
What city is declared the home of musical theater?
New York
300
What is when an actor turns their back to the audience to speak to another actor.
Upstaging
400
Name of a play Sophocles wrote.
Electra, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
400
In what country is Kathakali performed?
India
400
Who wrote realistic emotion and extreme acts of cruelty?
Christopher Marlowe
400
What is a Finale?
The last scene in a musical before taking bows.
400
A type of stage where the audience surrounds the acting area.
Arena
500
What is the oldest form of story-telling?
Shadow puppets
500
Which type is the Japanese style of acting involving song and dance numbers done by men only in heavy costumes and monotonous poetry?
Noh
500
Who had an “appetite for controversy”?
Ben Jonson
500
What was the first long-run opera on Broadway?
50-show run of the Elves in 1857
500
Name the parts correctly