Greek Masks and Actors
Playwrights
Bonus: Oedipus Rex
Miscellaneous
Stage Terms
100
In plays, Greek actors wore these to portray multiple roles.
What are Masks?
100
He wrote over 123 plays but only 7 have survived in entirety.
Who was Sophocles?
100
Author of Oedipus Rex.
Who was Sophocles?
100
Type of stage used in Greek plays.
What is a 3/4 thrust?
100
1/2/3 4/5/6 Number 8 7/8/9
What is Down center?
200
___ is the number of actors in a Greek play after Sophocles introduced 1 more.
What is 3?
200
Author of Medea
Who was Euripides?
200
He killed his father and married his mother.
Who was Oedipus?
200
The name of the outdoor stage for Greek plays.
What is an Amphitheater?
200
These are used to hide props and actors off to the sides and are a type of stage curtain.
What are legs?
300
The number of people in a chorus in old Greek theater.
What is 12?
300
The comedy writer of the main four playwrights.
Who was Aristophanes?
300
The name of the third play in the series, also the name of Oedipus's daughter/sister.
What is Antigone?
300
This god was worshiped during festivals held in his name.
Who is Dionysus?
300
These stage curtains are used to hide multiple stage items that are above an audiences point of view.
What is a teaser?
400
The mouth shaped hole in masks has the same sound amplifying properties as this.
What is a megaphone.
400
The father of tragedy.
Who was Aeschylus?
400
How Oedipus's mother Dies.
What is hanging herself?
400
Dionysus was god of Wine, Theater, and this.
What is Fertility?
400
These can act as both a teaser and legs.
What are Full stage blacks?
500
The first known actor?
Who was Thespis?
500
The author of the only known satyr play in completion.
Who was Euripides?
500
The number of children/Siblings Oedipus had.
What is 4?
500
Two things you like and one thing you would change about your mask.
What is (Any acceptable answer defined by teacher)?
500
The type of fly system that used weights to balance out with items hanging on rods that can be lowered.
What is a Counterweight system?
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