History
What is Greece?
Traditional theatre masks represent these two genres of story.
What are Comedy and Tragedy?
Who is Thespis?
Theatre is ALWAYS this.
What is Live?
A spoken speech delivered by a single character in a play.
What is a monologue?
The century in which theatre began.
What is the 6th?
Conversation or spoken lines between at least two characters in a play.
What is dialogue?
Thespis was considered to be the __________ of theatre.
What is father?
Theatre work must be ____________, which requires the efforts of many people working together.
What is collaborative?
The convention of an “invisible” wall separating the stage from the audience.
What is Fourth Wall?
The first plays were performed for them.
What are Gods?
Short comments (sometimes directly to the audience) that reveal a character’s inner thoughts.
What are asides?
Considered the greatest playwright or dramatist of all time?
Who is William Shakespeare?
These two things are needed to make theatre happen.
What are an actor(s) and an audience?
What is Hamlet?
The country that conquered Greece and adopted theatre.
What is Rome?
Lengthy speeches by a single character where the individual reveals their state of mind or innermost feelings.
What are soliloquies?
In the early years of theatre, female roles were mostly played by these people.
Who are young boys?
Theatre is ____________, which means that no performance can ever be totally duplicated or captured.
What is ephemeral?
Story style that emphasizes inspiration and ideals.
What is Romanticism?
What is playwriting?
The capacity to identify emotionally with the characters on stage.
What is empathy?
He was known as the God of Theatre.
Who is Dionysis?
The combination of many ideas and efforts to form a process, product, or theory.
What is synthesis?
The world-famous Globe Theatre was built in this year.
What is 1599?