Orchestra
The area where the chorus dances and sings/ interacts with actors
What was the orchestra?
The area where spectators sat and watched
What is the Theatron?
The use of the skene
What is a storage/backstage area?
Passageways
What does Parados translate to?
Where the proskenion was located
What is in front of the skene?
The name of the altar dedicated to Dionysus
What is Thymele?
The shape of the theatron
What is a circle?
Location of the skene
What is "directly behind the stage"?
When would the audience use the parados?
Before and after performances
The proskenion consisted of different levels of...
Stages
The greek god of wine and food
Who is Dionysus?
True or false: the theatron took up most of the theatre.
True
True or false: The skene was used only for actor's props
False
Where the parados was located.
On either sides of the theatre
The stages in the proskenion were the...
High stages and stages on either side
The material used for the floor of the orchestra
What is marlble?
What 4th century theatrons were made out of
What is marble?
What the skene could be decorated for
What is the setting?
The actors would use the parados as...
exits and entrances
It included a...
decorated supporting wall
Dancing place
What does the orchestra translate to?
What 5th century BC spectators would have sat on
What are cushions or boards?
Why was there access to the roof?
To have characters appear as Gods
The groups of people who would have walked through the parados
What is all groups? (audience, actors, chorus, etc.)
"Proskenion" translates to
What is "something set up before the skene"?