Terminology "F"
WHO WROTE THESE?
THEATRE HODGEPODGE
ALL THINGS GREEK
IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME
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Acronym FBO
What is fade to blackout?
100
Tartuffe, Don Juan, The Misanthrope, The Learned Ladies
Who is Moliere?
100
Egyptian Passion plays generally centered around this central god.
Who is Osiris, the god of the underworld.
100
The father of Greek tragedy.
Who is Aeschylus?
100
This style of Greek Theatre evolved from the celebration of the god Dionysus.
What is Greek Old Comedy?
200
Gradual increase or decrease in the level of light or sound.
What is a fade?
200
The Lover's Caprice, Clavigo, Egmont, Stella, Iphigenia in Taurus, Torquato Tasso, Faust
Who is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
200
A figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration for dramatic effect.
What is hyperbole?
200
The Oresteia is comprised of these plays.
What is Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides?
200
Greek Middle Comedy differed from Greek Old Comedy in this way.
Greek Middle Comedy diminished the use of the chorus.
300
Design technique that makes the set appear larger than it really is.
What is false perspective?
300
The Rivals, The Critic, A Trip to Scarborough, The School for Scandal
Who is Richard Brinsley Sheridan?
300
The feeling a work provokes in an audience, sometimes confused with tone.
What is mood?
300
According to Aristotle, Aeschylus was responsible for changing the ancient form of tragedy by doing these three things.
What is adding a second actor, diminishing the participation of the chorus and focusing on the dialogue?
300
Greek Old Comedy was known for these characteristics.
What is crude language and lack of restriction?
400
Light used to compensate for the shadows created by key lighting.
What is fill light?
400
Bus Stop, Absolute Signal, Wilderness Man, Between Life and Death, Dialogue
Who is Gao Xingjian?
400
3 of the 6 properties of stage lighting.
What is intensity, color, direction, distribution, texture and movement?
400
Sophocles was best known for this work.
What is Oedipus the King?
400
This form of Greek theatre largely focused on the idea of unrequited love.
What is Greek New Comedy?
500
A flat piece of scenery that contains a fireplace.
What is a fireplace flat?
500
Eufemia, Medora, Amelia
Who is Lope de Rueda?
500
The three most famous of the Greek tragedians.
Who are Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles?
500
Euripides was the first playwright to permit this.
What is allowing women to act in tragedies?
500
Unlike Old Comedy, that used characters likened to public figures or heroes, the characters of Greek New Comedy were this.
What are common people with everyday problems? (The mercenary soldier coming home from war.)
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