It's all GREEK to me!
Who is Dionysus?
This GREAT hero and conqueror of Rome disseminated Greek Theatrical tradition.
Who is Alexander?
Acting is ______.
What is reacting / playing?
Because of THIS country's 100+ years of war with France (and its own in-fighting), their renaissance didn't happen until well after the Italian Renaissance had already flourished.
Who/What is England?
HE wrote 38+ plays, resided in Stratford Upon Avon, and invented hundreds of phrases still used today.
Who is Shakespeare?
The first "actor" to step out of the chorus.
Who is Thespis
The Romans, being all serious, changed their style of comedy by removing all mention of THESE... by name.
What are politicians?
THIS is the area of a theater that frames the stage and separates the audience from the actors.
What is the proscenium arch?
"...Earthly life isn't just a vale of tears that might lead to heaven if you are good, but maybe worthy in and of itself;" was an idea, formulated during the Italian Renaissance, also known as this.
What is Humanism
Shakespeare's friends, John Hemings and Henry Condell, collected and published his works into a luxurious volume known as THIS.
What is the First Folio?
He gouged his own eyes out when he found out he accidentally fulfilled his prophecy.
Who is Oedipus?
Titus Maccius Plautus wrote metered rambunctious plays that one might even refer to as these
What are musicals?
What is an actor?
This was based on classical models that you had to be well-read to know
What is commedia erudita?
Paper printed on 8 sides & folded up to become 4 double-sided page booklets.
What is a quarto?
Theater "began" when worshippers of a certain god walked around with a giant phallus singing these
What are Dithyrambs?
Shakespeare used THIS Plautus play as inspiration for his Comedy of Errors.
What is "The Menaechmi?"
or
What is "The Menaechmus Twins"?
When used as a metaphor it means to have a prominent position. Actors want to be HERE in the true middle of the performing space in the spotlight.
What is Center Stage?
THIS was known as a comedy of players OR Artful comedy.
What is Commedia dell'arte?
Shakespeare put thesis and antithesis into a single character as part of his 'big' innovation regarding THESE.
What are tragic heroes?
When playwrights backed their stories into a corner, to which no character could possibly overcome, Divine Intervention was the only answer. Greeks showed this on stage using THIS, which an actor playing god would be lowered in from the skene.
What is a/the Deus Ex Machina
"Terence", the first known playwright of color, was born by THIS name.
What is Publius Terentius Afer?
A:"Darling, I would like to go to the movies with you."
B:"I don't know you!"
OR
B:"Captain, portside a warship!"
Are examples of THIS improv taboo
Actors were labeled vagrants, for going from town to town, and could be fined according to the law passed by THIS English Royalty
Who is Elizabeth I?
HE once wrote of Shakespeare, "The women were practical, impatient of words, clear-sighted towards the ends and the means, and they do not accept the premises to deny the conclusion or decorate the inevitable with imaginative endings."
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?