Home of the ancient theatrical form called Sanskrit Drama.
What is India?
100
This man wrote the first western theatre critic, known as "The Poetics," in which he defined the element of drama and tragedy.
Who is Aristotle?
100
This theatre came out of the Civil Rights Movement and advocated for justice, equality, and voting rights in the South. A very popular play of theirs is "In White America."
What is The Free Southern Theatre?
100
This is the blueprint for the dramatic experience. It is what the overall performance is based around.
What is the script?
100
This play is written by Shakespeare and deals with the Prince of Denmark seeking revenge upon his mother and uncle. It provides a good example of a play-within-a-play and subplot.
What is Hamlet?
200
A popular Japanese form that replaced Noh theatre in popularity. It is the theatre of the people, not the nobility.
What is Kabuki?
200
This group was made up of 12-50 people who represented the ideal spectator or moral voice.
What is the Greek Chorus?
200
This kind of theatre rejects conventional spaces and seating and places the audience in the middle of the action.
What is Environmental or Alternative theatre?
200
We have empathy for the characters and are drawn into the world of the play.
What is Emotional Involvement?
200
This play is an Absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco that deals with a middle class couple having a conversation and being interrupted by another middle class couple. Eventually they argue and the argument escalates until the second couple replaces the first.
What is The Bald Soprano?
300
The dominant theatrical form in China, in which music is an integral part
What is the Opera or Jingxi?
300
This kind of stage was influenced by Elizabethan stages and is designed to minimize the distance between the actors and the audience.
What is a thrust stage?
300
This theatre was founded by Ariane Mnouchkine and was modeled around a commune. They were heavily influenced by Eastern Theatre and their productions grew out of improvisation, discussions, and group study.
What is Theatre Du Soleil?
300
This person shapes a vision into an organized, meaningful whole. The express an aspect of human behavior and are considered to be 'builders.'
What is the playwright?
300
This play is a tragicomedy written by Anton Chekov in which siblings sit at home and dream of a life in the city. It is Chekov's most preformed play.
What is The Three Sisters?
400
An ancient Japanese theatre form that is passed down from generation to generation. Created as a theatrical form of the nobility and only men are allowed to perform.
What is Noh?
400
The area in which the Greek chorus stood.
What is the dancing circle or orchestra?
400
This theatre was founded in NYC by Peter Schumann. Their motto is that "Theatre should be as basic as bread."
What is The Bread and Puppet Theatre?
400
This tool of the playwright must be believable, multifaceted, and complex.
What is the character?
400
This play is a Tragicomedy by Samuel Beckett in which two men wait for someone who never shows up.
What is Waiting for Godot?
500
A dance drama of rural India that is based on passions of Hindu gods and demons.
What is Kathakali?
500
The two different kinds of stages during Medieval times.
What is the fixed stage and the moving/processional stage?
500
This man believed that the theatre's essentials are the actor, audience, and a bare space. He saw theatre as a semi-religious act. He is also the founder of The Polish Laboratory Theatre.
Who is Jerzy Grotowski?
500
This kind of writing pushed back against Eastern stereotypes during the 1960's. A good example of this writing is M.Butterfly by David Henry Hwang.
What is Asian American Writing?
500
This play is a good example of Epic Theatre and a play-within-a-play in which two families fight over a plot of land. The inner play is a story of two mothers fighting over the same child. The playwright is Bertolt Brecht.