European Theatre
American Theatre
Asian Theatre
Musical Theatre
Miscellaneous
100
This is a form of Italian improv from the 1500s.
What is commedia dell'arte?
100
This is the date that the first theatre was built in America.
What is 1716?
100
In Asian theatre, makeup is not realistic; instead, it's...
What is symbolic?
100
This is the year when "musicals" started to develop.
What is 1850?
100
This is the name for a comedy with exaggerated characteristics.
What is a farce?
200
This is the capital of Greek theatre.
What is Athens?
200
What two advances in technology led to the re-emergence of American theatre in the 19th century?
What is electricity and the railroad?
200
This type of Asian theatre may be about conflicts of the heart.
What is Kabuki theatre?
200
This is the name for the words in an opera.
What is a libretto?
200
This is the type of printing that has 4 pages to one piece of paper.
What is a quarto?
300
This is the name of Shakespeare's company.
What is Lord Chamberlain's Men/King's Men?
300
This is how minstrelsy attempted to stay popular.
What is added more performers?
300
These are the two functions of a Peking opera.
What is to inform and entertain?
300
This is the name for a mid-range female voice.
What is a mezzo?
300
This is the Greek god of wine and entertainment.
Who is Dionysis?
400
This is the name of the meter that Shakespeare often wrote in.
What is iambic pentameter?
400
This is the Hollywood equivalent for vaudeville.
What is the Palace Theatre?
400
This is the name for the stage piece that extends into the audience during a Kabuki theatre performance.
What is a footbridge?
400
This is the official name for "talk-singing."
What is recitative singing?
400
This is the process of determining the meter of a poem.
What is scansion?
500
This is the maximum number of actors in a Greek theatre performance.
What is 4?
500
This is the type of content that American theatre contained starting in the 19th century.
What is realism and/or melodrama?
500
These are the two types of Peking operas.
What are martial and non-martial operas?
500
These are the three things necessary for opera singing.
What is projection, endurance, and language?
500
This is the name of the play referenced throughout the Greek theatre videos.
What is Persians?
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