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Plays were performed at these times only.
What are festivals?
100
The seating area.
What is the cavea?
100
An actor in Pompeii.
Who is Sorex?
100
The citizens' way of making the stone seats more comfortable.
What are cushions?
100
The amount of people the theater could hold.
What is 5,000 people?
200
These three things were carried to make the experience better for the spectator.
What are: cushions, food, and drink?
200
The stage.
What is the scaena?
200
Another Pompeiian actor, his name beginning with A.
Who is Actius?
200
A good way of making business on theater days.
What is bringing your slaves to the theater?
200
The amount of doorways the scaena frons had.
What is 3 to 5 doorways?
300
The best seats at the auditorium were reserved for these people.
Who were the town council and important citizens?
300
The building behind the stage.
What is the scaena frons?
300
A character after whom an ugly mask was formed.
Who is Manducus?
300
A way of insuring only the best sat in the best seats.
What are seat tokens?
300
A mixture of opera and ballet which was very popular at the Roman theater.
What is the pantomime?
400
Latecomers had to resort to sitting in these seats.
What are the "nosebleed" seats, or those that are at the edges of the auditorium?
400
The meaning and SHAPE of the Pompeiian "orchestrã".
What is an orchestra, in the shape of a horseshoe.
400
Playwrights in 200 B.C.
Who were Plautus and Terence?
400
A technique used to save the audience from boredom after a long play.
What is putting on a short comedic play?
400
The decorations for the scaena frons.
What is columns and niches?
500
A wealthy citizen paid for scenery, costumes, actors, etc for these reasons.
What are political popularity and the benefit of his citizens?
500
A "smaller, more elegant roofed theater."
What is the Odeon?
500
A Roman poet.
Who is Juvenal?
500
A way of saving your business while taking the day off.
What is closing your business the day of a festival?!!!
500
What the Pompeiian theater was modelled on.
What are the Greek?