Ancient Egypt
Stage Types
Sanskrit Drama
Indigenous Storytelling
Theatre Vocabulary
100
This is a series of actions performed with gestures, words, actions, or objects in a specific order and is usually performed in religious ceremonies.
what is a ritual?
100
This type of stage has a runway that goes out into the audience and is commonly used for runway shows.
What is a THRUST stage?
100
This is known as the origin of all languages.
What is Sanskrit?
100
This is a narrative story that explains the beginning of a character, organization, or concept.
What is an ORIGIN STORY?
100
This is a person who performs onstage.
What is an ACTOR?
200
These religious figures performed the stories in Ancient Egypt.
Who are priests?
200
this stage is a classic style where the audience sits on one side.
What is a PROSCENIUM Stage?
200
This is the "drama manual" to guide how Sanskrit drama should be performed.
What is the Nāṭya Śāstra?
200
This is the type of narrative story that explains the formation of the universe or how humans came to be.
What is a CREATION STORY?
200
This live "picture" is a way to tell stories by freezing in a pose.
what is a TABLEAU?
300
These are the three things that are important to ancient Egyptian stories. (you get points for each one you answer right)
what is character, story, and audience?
300
this stage has the audience sitting on all four sides
what is an ARENA stage?
300
according to the Nāṭya Śāstra, the purpose for theatre was for this group of people to have an enjoyable experience.
Who is the AUDIENCE?
300
This is a narrative story that details the events and influences that shape a character's traits, beliefs, values, and motivations.
What is a CHARACTER ORIGIN STORY?
300
The sides of the stage got its name from the set pieces and curtains that "fly" in.
what are the WINGS?
400
This is the Egyptian god of chaos and storms.
Who is SET or SETH?
400
This invisible line is what the actor can "break" when they step over it to be closer to the audience and sometimes even interact with them.
What is the PROSCENIUM LINE or the 4TH WALL?
400
These are the emotions that the actors represent in their performance. You will get 400 bonus points for naming three of the emotions.
what are the bhavas?
love, mirth, sorrow, anger, courage, disgust, wonder, and fear.
400
This is the name of the tribe that resides in the Northeast that involved a great spirit, dreams, and a giant turtle named Tolba
who is the Abenaki tribe?
400
This type of theatre is when the narrator reads the story and the actors act alongside.
what is READER'S THEATRE?
500
The papyrus plant was what the Egyptians used to create the first type of this.
What is PAPER?
500
This type of small theatre can change has flexible seating and it's name describes how it looks.
what is a BLACK BOX theatre?
500
this is the aesthetic that was created and experienced by the audience. 500 bonus points if you can name three of them.
What is the rasa?
Love, Laughter, Pity, Courage, Fear, Disgust, Wonder, Rage, and Peace