Greek Geek!
This essential theatrical tool allowed actors to play multiple roles.
What is Masks.
Unlike it's successor, Medieval Theater, Ancient Roman Theater focussed heavily on this.
What is Entertainment.
What religion was the foundation of medieval life and inspiration for many medieval plays?
What is Christianity. (not Catholicism, as it was not yet distinguished from Christianity)
In what city was the Globe Theater Located?
What is London.
In this fast-paced exercise, two or more players perform a scene where every new line of dialogue must begin with the next sequential letter of the alphabet, starting from A and working all the way to Z.
What is the Alphabet Game or the ABC Game.
Ancient Greek theaters were built using this natural georgraphic feature.
What is: Hill, hillside, or slope.
The Romans dramatic style of buffoonery and horseplay made of improbable situations is called this.
What is Farce.
Medieval theater existed from what year to what year OR from what specific invasion in England to what era?
What is 1066 to 1450 OR the Norman Invasion to the Renaissance.
What famous play involved a king, a thane, and an evil wife covered in blood that would not wash away?
What is Macbeth.
In the classic theater warm-up and improv game "Zip, Zap, Zop," name one reason a participant would be deemed "out".
What is: hesitating, missing, passing to the person immediately to your left or your right, or passing back to the person who just passed to you.
This popular greek play, involving the prediction of a King's misfortune, became so popular it even coined a term in Freudian Psychology.
What is Oedipus Rex
This famous Ancient Roman playwright wrote 45 plays to entertain and several major playwrights, from Shakespeare to Rodgers & Hart, ‘borrowed’ plot lines from his plays.
Who is Seneca.
What group ordered the closure of and banning of English Theater making it illegal from 1642?
Who are the Puritans.
What feast day was William Shakespere born on and died on?
What is St. George's Feast Day.
The golden rule of improv is "******.". This means you fully accept whatever reality your scene partner creates ("***") and add new information or details to keep the story moving forward ("***").
What are "Yes, and..."
This Greek God had the privilege of having theater festivals thrown in his honor.
Who is Dionysus.
This uninterrupted ellipse (oval) which housed Roman plays was built from the ground up.
What is: Amphitheater or The Colosseum or Cavea
What was the type of blank verse popular in Renaissance plays?
What is Iambic Pentameter
What monarch’s reign coincided with the “golden age” of Renaissance theatre?
Who is Queen Elizabeth the first.
In improv, and in theater in general, one must never have their back...."** *** ********".
What is to the audience.
These are the three genres in Greek Theater.
What are Comedy, Tragedy, and Satire.
When Roman Theater was taking its reign, Greek gods were adopted and given Roman names. What name Roman name was given to the Greek god of theater, Dionysus?
Who is Bacchus.
Jacobean Renaissance plays were staged during the reign of which monarch?
Who is King James the first.
What was the name of the place actors were to go to rest, rehearse, and prepare before shows and between scenes?
What is the tiring house or green room.
What improve game consists of writing a disgruntled letter to a company where four participants are split into two opposing cross-functional pairs, one pair representing a customer and the other representing the company?
What is a "One-Word-at-A-Time" Complaint Letter game. Or Complaints and Responses.