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Stage Business
It's all Greek to Me
Theatre 101
Purely Medieval
100
A frozen, silent picture created with the body.
Tableau
100
The stage area closest to the audience.
Downstage.
100
This means "dancing place". It's the area of the amphitheatre where the chorus sang and danced.
Orchestra
100
Acting without words.
Pantomime
100
During the Medieval period, theatre was reborn in________
The church
200
The moment of greatest tension in the play or story.
Climax
200
This is a type of stage that is on a slope. Hint: It was used during Shakespeare's time.
Raked Stage
200
Known as the first actor.
Thespis.
200
Acting without a script.
Improvisation
200
The three (M) types of play during the Medieval period were:
Morality, Mystery and Miracle
300
A group of actors working together on a production.
Ensemble
300
The type of stage that has an audience completely surrounding it (on all 4 sides).
Arena Stage
300
Greek genre of theatre that was highly sexual and crude in nature and ridicules the gods and heroes.
Satyr Play
300
To speak loudly and clearly, so you may be heard from the audience.
To Project.
300
A short biblical scene.
A Trope
400
The bad guy. The Villain. On the "anti" side of struggle.
Antagonist
400
All stage directions are from the_________ perspective
Actors
400
Hymns sung to honor Dionysus.
Dithyrambs
400
To turn your body towards the audience to be easily seen.
to Cheat out.
400
A group of biblical scenes.
A cycle.
500
The location of the theatre where the audience sits.
The House
500
The type of stage that has audience ONLY in the front and has an arch framing the stage.
Proscenium stage
500
Greek God of wine, fertility, ecstacy and theatre.
Dionysus
500
A frozen, silent picture made with the body.
Tableau
500
The morality play we read in class that tells the tale of a man who is being called to judgement by Death and his journey along the way.
Everyman
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