This province is the birthplace of Canadian theatre.
What is the province of Nova Scotia?
100
Which two people first translated Les Belles Soeurs into english?
Hint: Look at your books
Who are Bill Glassco and John Van Burek?
100
This is the year where Les Belles Soeurs was first PERFORMED.
What is 1968?
100
Name the part of the play that happens before the play has started (Hint: It's synonymous to the preface of a book)
What is the prologue?
100
He was the owner of the first francophone theater in Canada.
a) Antoine Fucher
b) John Van Burette
c) Pierre Francais
d) David French
Who is Antoine Fucher?
200
This city was at the heart of ancient Greek theatre.
What is Athens, Greece?
200
This was the Greek God of Wine.
Who is Dionysus?
200
This century foreshadowed a boom in Canadian theater construction.
What is the 19th century (1800s)?
200
This was the name of the group of people in Greek Theatre that spoke in unison.
What is The Chorus?
200
This translation of Les Belles Soeurs is most commonly spoken by Jewish communities.
What is Yiddish
300
This was where the Greek Gods lived in Greece.
What is Mount Olympus?
300
Name one of the three major Ancient Greek tragedy writers
Who are Aeschylus, Sophocles or Euripides?
300
This is the year that Michel Tremblay wrote his first play, Le Train.
a) 1964
b) 1955
c) 1967
d) 1959
What is 1959?
300
This festival, formed in 1932, was used to promote Canadian theatre by setting up amateur theatre competitions throughout Canada.
What is the Dominion Drama Festival (DDF)
300
This is the name of the humorous genre of theatre.
What is comedy?
400
This was where the first English performance of Les Belles Soeurs took place
a) St. Lawrence Centre
b) Tarragon
c) Soulpepper (the Yonge Centre for Performing Arts)
d) The Bluma Appel Theatre
What is the St. Lawrence Centre?
400
Who were the first people to introduce theater into North American culture?
Who are the Aboriginals?
400
The year 1967 is also known as...
What is the Centennial Year?
400
This is a literary element in which one undergoes a purification of emotions.
What is catharsis?
400
This dialect used in Les Belles Soeurs was considered by some to be a "horrific bastardization of French".
What is Joual?
500
These religious institutions, specifically, were not supportive of theater in Canada.
What are the Catholic and Protestant churches?
500
Who directed the first Les Belles Soeurs?
a) Michel Tremblay
b) Ms. Anklesaria
c) Andre Brassard
d) Bill Glassco
Who is Andre Brassard?
500
These are the years greek tragedy was at its peak.
(Hint: Their sum adds up to half of 22)
a) 11 BCE and year 0
b) 8 and 4 BCE
c) 6 and 5 BCE
d) 2013 and 2014
When is 6 and 5 BCE?
500
This is the identity of Canadian theatre.
What is .....?
psych!
500
These two European countries greatly influenced Canadian theater
Hint: Think historical! (ie. x colonized y)