the "narration" at the beginning of a story or play
What is a prologue?
100
what the written language of Egypt is called
What are Hieroglyphics?
100
The person who gets paid to stand in the audience and laugh at the jokes in a play
What is a claque
100
the Emperor of Rome who cleared out a section of the crowd to be put in the arena
Who is Caligula?
200
the number of men in the collection of statues of the Olmec tribe
What is sixteen men?
200
the book about a man tormented by the devil for his love of God.
What is the Book of Job?
200
directions for dying
What are the Pyramid Plays?
200
the three sided set piece that can show different locations by rotating them all together
What is a periaktoi?
200
the Emperor who had an angel next to him in his statue
Who is Caesar Augustus?
300
Storytelling, Rite of Passage and Imitation
What are the three reasons for theatre with Primitive man?
300
spelling of the name of the book of poetry.
What is P-s-a-l-m-s?
300
the celebration of a ruler's 30th year on the throne
What is a Hebsed?
300
the number of days in the Greek Festival of Tragedy, the years of the Greek Golden Age and the number of tragedy plays presented on day two of the Festival
What is seven (7), 500-400 b.c., zero (0)?
300
the emperor who married his niece, had a limp
Who is Claudius?
400
the five bits of evidence that the Olmec statues are theatre
What are Audience, Actor, Set, Costume and Plot?
400
sums up the play at the very end
What is an epilogue?
400
the story of Set, Isis, Osiris and Horace
What is the Abydos Passion?
400
the spelling of the name of the Greek god of Wine, Party and Fertility.
What is D-I-O-N-Y-S-U-S?
400
the name of Augustus' third wife
What is Livia?
500
the spelling of the South American Tribe's name
What is O-L-M-E-C?
500
the last two lines in the epilogue of Romeo and Juliet
What is "never was there a story more full of woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo"?
500
the name of Cleopatra's son
What is Cesarian?
500
the name of the War where the Romans conquered the Greeks
What is the Peloponnesian War?
500
the gutter type system that carried water from the mountains into the city of Rome