Show:
Famous Actors
Our Theater Heritage
Spotlight on Terms
Focus on Facts
Spotlight on Terms II
100
Played "The Joker" in Dark Knight
Who is Heath Ledger?
100
30,000 years ago
When did theater begin?
100
A story written to be played out on stage.
What is drama?
100
Comes from a Greek word meaning "to act" or "to do".
Where did the name theater come from?
100
One who writes plays.
What is a playwright?
200
The voice of Shrek
Who is Mike Myers?
200
Myths and rituals performed by primitive people.
How did theater begin?
200
A written copy of the dialogue that actors speak.
What is a script?
200
The ancient Greek word "theatron"
Where does the work theater come from?
200
The conversation between actors on stage.
What is dialogue?
300
The voice of Woody in Toy Story
Who is Tom Hanks?
300
Primitive people told about what happened to them and they repeated it over and over. They focused on survival, pleasing the gods, understanding life, and learning about other people.
What are some of the basic needs primitive people may have acted out?
300
The personality an actor portrays in a scene or play that is different from his or her own personality.
What are characters?
300
A place for seeing
What is the definition for "theatron".
300
Preserved in a moving photograph.
What is filmed?
400
Voted the Funniest Male Stand-up Comic at the American Comedy Awards.
Who is Jerry Seinfeld.
400
Repeated action that becomes a custom or ceremony.
What is a ritual?
400
Males or females playing character roles.
What are actors?
400
The audience
What is the essential ingredient in live theater?
400
The special interactive and "live" relationship that exists between the performers and the audience, connecting and bonding them into a team.
What is player-audience relationship?
500
Star, director, and co-producer of Argo.
Who is Ben Afflek
500
This English Playwright felt that theater was such a true reflection of human behavior that it was "to hold as t'wer a mirror up to nature."
Who is William Shakespeare?
500
A story in dialogue form to be acted out by actors before a live audience.
What is a play?
500
The writing or performing of plays, and the building where plays are performed.
How will the term "theater" be used in this classroom?
500
Additional information provided by the playwright to help the actors know how to feel or what to do when certain lines are spoken.
What are stage directions?