The first known scripted theatrical performance was in this place.
What is Greece?
100
This is the Greek word for actor.
Who is a thespian?
100
The Greeks used these to help the audience identify the characters and their emotions throughout the story.
What are masks?
100
Mystery Plays, Miracle Plays and Morality Plays are all examples of this genre from the Middle Ages.
What are Vernacular Dramas?
200
Vernacular Dramas were performed on wagons in this location.
What is a town square?
200
The Misanthrope is a French comedy from the Restoration period written by this playwright.
Who is Molière?
200
Liturgical dramas in the Middle Ages were performed by this group of people.
Who are clergy or who are priests?
200
This ethnic group created the proscenium stage.
Who are the Italians?
200
Characters in Restoration plays were often characterized in this fashion.
What is stereotypical?
300
This man is considered to be the father of the modern day acting method which emanated from the realism movement in theatre. He wrote "An Actor Prepares".
Who is Konstantin Stanislavski?
300
The Canterbury Tales is not a play, but a collection of stories from the Middle Ages that were written by this man.
Who is Chaucer?
300
The first professional acting troupe of paid actors was formed in this place.
What is England?
300
This ethnic group created the thrust stage.
Who are the English?
300
This style of early American theatre often used animal acts, physical abnormalities, and comedy.
What is Vaudeville?
400
This invisible wall separates actors from the audience in modern realistic plays.
What is the fourth wall?
400
This English dramatist, actor, and poet was commissioned to write plays for Queens and Kings of England.
Who is William Shakespeare?
400
At the end of every performance of Shakespeare in Elizabethan England, the actors would do this.
What is a jig?
400
Renaissance theatre used a lot of this in their performances.
What is music and dance?
400
This type of theatre has a hero, a villain, and a damsel in distress.
What is Melodrama?
500
This is the fate of the knight from the Canterbury tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale.
After he gives his wife the choice of staying old and true or young and untrue, he gets a wife that is both young and true.
500
This Greek playwright wrote the Oedipus cycle which includes the plays Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
500
This phrase from Vaudeville is now used to wish performers good luck.
What is "Break-a-leg!"?
500
This place was built by the Romans to watch gladiator contests, public executions, and mock sea battles.
What is the Colosseum?
500
This genre of theatre from the 19th century sought to bring real life to the stage and create plays which placed real people in every day situations.