Who is it?
Terminology
Dramatic Structure Elements
Common Categories of Theater
To Art or Not to Art
100

Who is the god of theatre?

Dionysus

100

What are the structure that the middle ages used to travel and create theatre?

pageant wagons

100

What is all the events that happen in the text called?

story

100

Big musicals as well as dramas and comedies that are for entertainment purposes only

commercial

100

Theater is what kind of art?

performing

200

Who was deemed the ‘Theatre Duke’

Georg II

200

What is a legal guaranteed granted by the government to authors, playwrights, composer, choreographers, inventors, publishers, etc. that allows them to maintain control and profit from their creative work?

copyright

200

What are the struggles and obstacles for the character(s) to overcome called?

conflict

200

Playwrights, directors, performers to express their personal opinions about current trends, issues, and politics

political

200

Skill, beauty, and what are all qualities of art?

Meaning

300

Who was known as Russia’s greatest playwright?

Chekhov

300

What is another name or term for the collective audience, mostly used in theatre called?

the house

300

What is the ordering or structure of the events that actually take place on stage called?

plot

300

Pushing the limits of theatre, experimenting with styles, themes, ideas, etc.

experimental

300

 A building in which you can see a form of performance art.

TheatER

400

Who was the first thespian?

Thespis

400

What are the payments made to playwrights or playwrights estate for their creative rights?

royalties

400

what is the point of highest emotional intensity called?

climax

400

Uses styles, themes, staging of particular time periods

historical

400

Blank is the only form of art where subject=medium.

TheatRE

500

Italians were the first ones to let this group of people act on stage, although this will not be on stage in England for another century?

Women

500

What are dramatized biblical stories of the Old and New Testaments, were one of the most important and popular forms of drama during the late Middle Ages and into the renaissance?

cycle plays

500

What is the resolution,  ‘un-knotting’ called?

denouement

500

Supports heritage, customs, and point of view of a particular people religion, class, country, or community

cultural

500

What is the government program called that funds the arts around the United States?

NEA 

(National Endowment for the Arts)

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