This theatrical form rejects conventional seating and includes the audience as part of the performance space.
What is Environmental Theatre?
100
Theatre mirrors this.
What is life?
100
The country where Western Theatre is said to have begun.
What is Greece?
100
A Chinese theatrical tradition in which music is integral to the performance.
What is the Opera or Jingxi?
100
A cleansing or purging of strong emotions.
What is catharsis?
200
These two men are the forerunners of environmental theatre and are noted for removing stage curtains and exploring different acting areas.
Who are Vsevelod Meyerhold and Max Reheinhardt?
200
Actor, Space, and Audience.
What are the three basic components of theatre?
200
Consisted of 12-50 men and acted as a spokesman for the plays society.
What is the Greek chorus?
200
The Japanese puppet theatre.
What is Banraku?
200
The blueprint for the dramatic experience. This is not considered complete until it is performed.
What is the script?
300
This theatre, created by Jerzy Grotowski, stripped theatre down to its bare essentials of actor, audience, and bare space.
What is The Polish Laboratory Theatre?
300
Relates to life experiences, Familiarity, Collective Response, Preparations and decorum, Centrality to theatrical event.
What are audience expectations?
300
The area where the Greek Chorus stood.
What is the Orchestra?
300
The Japanese theatrical tradition that is highly stylized and is passed down from generation to generation.
What is Noh?
300
The three essential tools of the playwright.
What is the plot, character, and language?
400
This person created the Bread and Puppet theatre and believed that theatre is as essential as bread.
Who is Peter Schumann?
400
The illusion of reality that theatre creates, the idea that for a short time we forget that we are in a theatre and are consumed by the world of the play.
What is the suspension of disbelief?
400
A type of stage that allowed for the wing and groove scenery. The first theatre to have this kind of stage was the Teatro Farnese Parma.
Who is the Proscenium Arch?
400
A form of Indian dance drama.
What is Kathakali?
400
What characters must be to maintain the audience's interest.
What is believable, multifaceted, and complex?
500
This theatre was heavily influenced by Chinese Opera, Noh, Kabuki, and Kathakali.
What is Theatre Du Soliel?
500
This is a liability for theatre because it makes it impossible to reach mass audiences, but it is also what makes theatre unique. Also known as the 'here and now.'
What is immediacy?
500
Plays that are based around Biblical events from the Medieval Era.
What are Cycle plays?
500
A popular Japanese theatrical tradition that is for the common people and is less restrained than Noh.
What is Kabuki theatre?
500
A type of writing that emerged in the '60's, became popular in the '80's, and introduced sexual orientation as an acceptable dramatic subject.