Don’t Know Much About History
The Play’s the Thing
Element-ary, Dear Watson
Intelligent Design
Beautiful Mosaic
100
The place where western theatre began
What is Greece
100
In The Doll House this character is black mailing the protagonist.
Who is Krogstad
100
The Elizabethan and Greek theatre is an example of this kind of theatre space.
What is a thrust stage?
100
In costume design, these are first quick sketches the designer makes.
What are thumbnails OR thumbnail sketches?
100
This 1970s feminist theatre was known as WOW Café.
What is Womens’ One World (Theatre)
200
This british monarch is responsible for the first licensing laws
Who is Elizabeth I
200
In Angels in America, this character says he can’t have AIDS because he has clout (power).
Who is Roy?
200
This type of theatre space, while perfect for spectacles and musicals, is also associated with photographic realism with its box sets.
What is the proscenium arch stage?
200
This is a bird’s eye view of a set design drawn to scale.
What is a ground plan?
200
First play written and performed by African Americans in the US
What is King Shotaway?
300
The audiences in ancient Greece sat in the Theatron which means this
What is "The seeing place"
300
In Burial at Thebes, this “seer” acted as the voice of the Gods
Who is Tiresias?
300
All the money/expenses gathered and spent on producing a show up to and including opening night but not including any subsequent performances.
What are production costs?
300
The sounds heard of frogs croaking or crickets chirping to help establish a scene.
What are environmentals?
300
This Native American Group is also the oldest female theatre group.
What is Spider Woman Theatre Company?
400
This director is generally credited as being the first “director” in theatre history.
Who is Georg II, OR Duke of Saxe-Meiningen?
400
In Cyrano de Bergerac this Character woos Roxane using Cyrano’s words
Who is Christian?
400
This Russian actor and director, who worked closely with Anton Chekhov, created an acting method used for psychological realism.
Who was Constantin Stanislavski?
400
This Renaissance Designer created new and innovative ways to design using flying machinery, and also brought the proscenium arch stage to England
Who is Inigo Jones?
400
This prominent African American Playwright Wrote the Pittsburgh Cycle, which was to reflect the “African American” experience over a 10-year span
Who is August Wilson?
500
This Nun is said to be responsible for bringing theatre out of the “Dark ages” and perhaps out 1st female playwright
Who was Hrotsvitha?
500
In Trifles this character remembers watching a boy kill a kitten with a hatchet.
Who is Mrs. Peters?
500
This great Norwegian playwright is known as the “father of realism.”
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
500
This Designer is the father of “The New Stage Craft Movement”
Who is Robert Edmond Jones?
500
This major event was the catalyst in the GLBTQ movement
The Stonewall Riots
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