Ancient Greek
This is the name of the Ancient Greek theater (think the actual building)
What is an amphitheater!
True or False: traditional Japanese Theatre was highly stylized, with little use of music or movement.
This organization was responsible for theatre's return to society during the Medieval era.
What is the Christian Church?
This is the name of the theater in which Shakespeare's acting company performed
The Globe Theater
This famous writer and playwright pioneered modern realism onstage in Russia in the 19th Century.
Who is Anton Chekhov?
A group of performers who would comment on the action through speech or song
This style of theatre features highly detailed, hand-operated puppets and live narration.
This is the name of the movable Medieval stage structure that became very popular during its time.
What is a Pageant?
This genre of Shakespeare's plays dramatized real events, particularly from the British Monarchy
What are histories?
This famous director and actor developed acting techniques grounded in realism and imagination that are still used around the world today.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavsky?
These were the two primary genres of Ancient Greek drama.
What are tragedy and comedy?
This style of theatre featured slow, intentional movement, music, and themes of nature and spirituality.
What is Noh?
This style of theatre featured short, cyclical plays that retold and dramatized Bible stories.
What are Mystery plays?
What are comedies?
What is the Magic "If"?
This is the term for a series of four plays that would have been submitted for Greek theatre festival competitions.
What is a tetragos?
What is Kabuki?
This style of theatre featured short, cyclical plays that retold and dramatized the lives of the saints.
What are Miracle plays?
This genre of Shakespeare's plays featured higher-status characters, downfall from a fatal flaw, and (typically) lots of dead bodies.
What are tragedies?
This acting concept involves analyzing a character's want or goal in a scene or moment onstage.
What is Objective?
These were short, humorous, and raunchy plays that were intended to cheer the audience up after a series of tragedies
What are satyr plays?
These were shorter, comedic performances that were presented in intervals in Noh performances.
What are Kyogen?
This style of theatre featured allegorical stories that dealt with moral themes and lessons through personifying concepts like Death and Love.
What are Morality plays?
Name a Shakespeare play (any genre!).
What is... (check answers!)
This acting and performance concept, supported by both Chekhov and Stanislavsky, involved the actor trying to realistically express a feeling rather than "performing" a feeling onstage.
What is Emotional Memory?