Ancient Greece
The circumstances in which they performed theatre in Ancient Greece.
What are festivals?
The biggest playwright we talked about during this time period.
Who is William Shakespeare?
The country in which musicals were created and popularized.
What is the United States?
The title of someone who writes a play.
What is a playwright?
What they hoped to gain by holding these festivals.
What is abundant and fertile crops?
The name of the theatre Shakespeare did most of his work at.
What is The Globe Theatre?
Currently the biggest city in the world for theatre.
What is New York City?
The difference between monologue and dialogue.
What is that monologue means 1 speaker and dialogue means 2 or more?
The group of actors who help tell the story, in addition to the main characters.
What is a Greek Chorus?
What brought much of the Renaissance, especially theatre, to an end.
What is the Black Plague?
The time period in which musicals became popularized.
What are the 1920's-1940's?
The reason we use the terms "upstage" and "downstage."
What are slanted stages?
The Greek God that these festivals were held for.
Who is Dionysus?
The other word for The Renaissance.
What is Rebirth?
The American playwright who wrote plays such as Fences, Jitney, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Who is August Wilson?
The form of Japanese theatre popularized in the 17th-19th century, where they often wore masks.
What is Kabuki Theatre?
The biggest playwright we talked about during this time period.
Who is Sophocles?
The type of poems Shakespeare turned to writing after theatre came to a halt.
What are Sonnets?
The reason Oklahoma! was an important shift in theatre.
What is because it was the first show to tell a story through dance?
The difference between a play and a musical.
What is that the music moves the story along?