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Actors/Chorus
Theater Structure
100
The two most popular types of Greek drama
What is comedy and tragedy?
100

Another word for actor.

What is Thespian?

100

The city that was the main center for the Greek drama festival.

What is Athens?

100
This group of men often represented the townspeople and commented on the action of characters in a Greek play.
What is the chorus?
100
The audience area in a Greek theatre.
What is the theatron?
200

Short plays performed between the tragedies. They made fun of the tragic characters.

What is a satyr play?

200

Who wrote Opedipus Rex?

Who is Sophocles?

200
The festival where everyone from all over Greece came to attend and banks were shut down. Prisoners are set free to come see the festival too.
What is Festival Dionysus?
200
This is one reason why actors wore masks.
What is: -Visibility and characterization - Sound assistance - Multiple roles - Disguising the actor
200
The passageways where chorus and audience made their entrances and exits.
What is the parados?
300

What is the use of a Satire?

What is to add humor to a piece of writing?

300

He added the third actor

Who is Sophocles?

300
What is Dionysus the God of?
What is Theatre and wine?
300
This is one purpose for the chorus.
What is -Gave background info -Commented on the action -Described offstage action -Provided society's perspective on the situation
300
The portion of the Greek Theatre where the chorus sang to the audience.
What is the orchestra?
400

What is a satyr?

What is a half man half goat?

400

What were the Greek Mask made of ?

Clay, stone, real hair, wood.

400

How long and when was the Festival of Dionysus?  

What is 6 days during spring (March/ April). 

400
Greek citizens who performed in the Greek plays.
What is men?
400

The portion of the theater that was used for actors to change and held the props used during the show.

What is the skene?

500

Give me the order of the structure of a Greek Comedy? 

What is a Prologue, Parados, Episode, Parabasis, and Exode. 
500

What was the name of the mechanism that helped elevate actors on stage? 




What is Crane?

500

What is the Myth of Dionysus? 

What is a god that was born from Zesus and a human. He was then sewn into Zesus thigh. When he was born he was sent with Hermes to live on a mountain where he was raised by Satyrs and learned to make wine out of grapevines. 

500

The first actor

Who is Thespis?

500

What is the name of the part of the theatre that separates the levels a Greek Theater?

What is a Diazoma?