Conventions
Used to differentiate between characters and amplify sound
What are Masks?
Origin of the word "scene", the two story structure at the back of the theater where the actors changed masks and costumes
What is Skene?
Opening scence, with backgroung usually done by a single actor
What is the Prologue
The Greek god of wine and theater
Dionysus
Chorus was dressed as half-men/half-goat, very crude and comical plays
What are Satyr plays
Body stockings, wigs, and masks were used to help the make actors portray who?
What are women/ female characters
Where is chorus sang, danced, and performed
What is the Orchestra?
Plot developed through action and dialogue with second actor
What is an Episode
The chorus leaders and sponsors
What is the choregoi
Wrote Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
What is the Chorus?
The name for the seating area where the audience was
What is the theatron/cavea
What is the final action of a Greek Tragedy
What is the Exodos
How many plays did a playwright present?
4 total: 3 tragedies, 1 comedy
What is the name of the play we talked about in class. Extra points if you can name the author
Platform/ high-heel shoes used to make actors appear taller
What are Cothurns
The rotating set piece that would show different backgrounds
What is the periacktoi
The entrance of the chorus
What is the Parados
an ancient Greek hymn, often crude and comical, sung and danced in honor of Dionysus. Often sung in a procession
What is a Dithyramb
the only surviving trilogy, written by Aeschylus
What is the Oresteia
Ancient Greeks used _____ ______ _______ gestures in their acting style
what is large simple physical gestures
"behind the skene"; where actors made entrances out of the skene
What is the paraskenia
What is the Stasimon
The tragic down-fall of a hero
What is a Tragic Flaw
The playwright with the most surviving plays
Who is Euripides