Ritual
Ritual is a type of __________.
Storytelling
The first actor
Who is Thespis?
These performers were not allowed on stage at this time
Women
First form of Improv (Italian)
The idea that an audience can look through an imaginary wall and see into the lives of characters in a play
The actors and leaders in the rituals.
What is an elder or priest?
A hero of high status, a fatal flaw, and suffering
What are the elements of Tragedy?
This type of play teaches a lesson of right vs. wrong and the struggle of good and evil
What is a Morality Play?
A style of Theater showing life as it really is, or "a slice of life"
What is Realism?
Story being shown and not told
What is Pantomime
The process of releasing or providing relief from emotions
What is a Catharsis?
Theater was kept alive by these actors who performed on wagons.
What is a travelling troupe?
A comedic bit that could be performed at any moment in a performance
Lazzi
Created "The System" of Acting and demanded psychologically real reactions from his actors
(In Egyptian ritual) Religious plays about the deceased king's soul and ressurection
What is a Pyramid play?
Theatrical festival was held in honor of this Greek God and is the origin of Greek Theater.
Who is Dionysus?
In this year theater was officially banned by the church and is marked as the end of ancient Theater and the beginning of the Medieval period.
What is the year 692?
Shakespere's indoor theater that gave the rich seats in the balconies and the poor standing room as groundlings.
What is The Globe Theater?
What is music?
Rituals can explain what four elements of primal life?
Tradition, tribal history, religion, and why things happen in nature.
a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play.
In the year 925 this small play (or trope) was performed in the church as an Easter celebration and marked the beginning of liturgical drama.
What is Quem Quaeritis?
French renaissance plays followed this rule for their plot lines; time, place and action had to be one location and 24 hours or less.
The Unities
Wrote "A Doll's House" used theater to challenge social norms of his time.
Henrik Ibsen