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Egypt Theatre
India Theatre
China Theatre
Japanese Theatre
100
What are the three types of plays?
Pyramid Plays, Religious plays, and Osirian mysteries (Passion Plays)
100
What is a form of folk theatre in India based on mythological story of a battle between Gods?
Ramlila
100
What origins seems to lie on religious rituals?
The birth year of chinese
100
What are the three different types of Japanese theatre?
Noh, Kabuki, and Banraku
200
Who specifically only performed in the plays?
Male elders and priest
200
Ramlila has history going back about how many years ago?
5000
200
What combines mime, stylised music, and a chorus?
Early Chinese Drama
200
What stage was often used that has a long catwalk made for entering and exiting during a dramatic scene?
Hanamichi
300
What is the first and most famous play in Egypt?
The Passion Plays of Osiris at Abydos
300
What are the types of elements that Indian theatre initiated as a narrative form?
reciting, singing, and dancing a crucial role
300
What were performed during the Shang Dynasty?
Imitation of animals
300
Women were allowed to perform in what?
Kabuki
400
What extent will the actors go to make the plays realistic?
They will receive wounds during onstage battles
400
The book Natya Shastra is attributed to who?
Sage Bharata
400
Chinese drama often utilized plots of what; and what do they include?
Famous novels, some masterpieces, and they included The Palace of Long Life
400
What started in the 17th century from the two traveling puppeteers whom later become an actual artform after setting up a theatre in Osaka ?
Bunraku
500
What are the earliest plays time period?
2000 B.C. through 2750 B.C.
500
What was one of India's very first book on drama and what time period was it written?
Natya Shastra, and was written between 200 A.D and 200 B.C.
500
What period did the Chinese theatre evolve?
Yuan Dynasty
500
What is the form of Japanese theatre using mask?
Noh