History
This is recognized as the first play, from Egypt.
This is the area where the band may play, in modern theaters.
What is the Orchestra Pit?
Considered the most influential playwright from the English Renaissance.
Who is Shakespeare?
This is the back wall of a Greek performing area.
What is the Skene?
What is the Roman Empire?
This is the person who is credited with stepping out of the chorus to become the first actor.
Who is Thespis?
This is the area of the playing space that extends past the proscenium.
What is the apron?
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
This is the performing area in a Greek theater.
What is the Orchestra?
The rise of this institution restarted theater as a religious tool.
What is the Catholic Church?
This is the modern country often cited as the birthplace of Western Drama.
What is Egypt?
This is the system of ropes, lines, and pulleys that raises and lowers equipment on stage.
What is the counterweight fly system (fly system).
This is the company in which Shakespeare was a shareholder, and that is credited with building the Globe Theater.
Who are the Lord Chamberlain's Men?
This is where the audience sat in a Greek Theater.
What is the Theatron?
This type of play celebrated the works of saints.
What is a Mystery play?
This is the oldest traditional Japanese theatrical form, slow and deliberate in movement, using masks and dance to tell a story.
What is Noh?
DAILY DOUBLE
This is the Lighting Designer who pioneered professional lighting design and is considered the founder of lighting design.
Who is Jean Roenthal?
The Globe is this type of theater, defined by an audience on three sides.
What is 3/4 round, or thrust stage?
This is the geographic feature where Greek theaters were mostly built.
What is the side of a hill?
This is a group of plays, performed in sequence, often by a traveling troupe.
What is a cycle play?
This is the wagon, used in Greek theater, that would bring dead bodies or other things onto the stage.
What is the ekkyklema?
This was the role Jean Rosenthal began as.
What is a Stage Manager?
A stock character in the Italian Commedia dell'Arte tradition, this character is a greedy old man.
Who is Pantalone?
DAILY DOUBLE
This is the author who wrote Medea.
Who is Euripides?
This is the cart that troupes would use to travel from one area to the next to perform.
What is a Pageant Wagon?