Greek Theatre
This is the word for the collection of singers that would help tell the story through song and dance.
What is a Chorus?
What is iambic pentameter?
The theater forms of Bunraku, Noh, and Kabuki were created in this country.
What is Japan?
Henrik Ibsen is best known for creating this play about protagonist Nora's proto-feminist awakening.
What is A Doll's House?
This is the first rule when it comes to improvisation.
What is "always say yes (or yes and)?"
Greek actors often wore these to help portray their characters
What are masks?
This form of theatre from Renaissance Italy was created by traveling groups that performed largely improvised comedies.
What is a Commedia Dell'Arte?
Danny Hoch, John Leguizamo, and Anna Deveare Smith are some of the best known creators of this kind of theater.
What is solo performance work (or one person show)?
This playwright is known for many plays about the Black American experience. His most well-known, Fences, focuses on the Maxson family.
Who is August Wilson?
This numbered term describes the imaginary wall between actors and audience.
What is the Fourth Wall?
What is Orchestra?
Romeo & Juliet is entirely written using this poetic form of alternating pairs of rhyming lines.
What are couplets?
Eugene Ionesco, Edward Albee, and Samuel Beckett are some of the best known playwrights of this style of theater that emerged post World War II.
What is Absurdism?
This French playwright joins other mononym artists like Beyonce and Adele, and is best known for creating satires.
Who is Moliere?
This job title is given to the writer who creates all of the sung words in a musical.
What is a lyricist?
According to legend, a Greek man named Thespis became the first one of these.
What is an actor?
The title character of this play is spurred to revenge based on a vision of the ghost of his recently dead father.
What is Hamlet?
In Western-European theater, women were traditionally not allowed to perform onstage or work in the theatre until this period.
What is The Restoration?
Irish playwright Oscar Wilde created this comedy about the importance of telling the truth.
What is The Importance of Being Earnest?
Brrrr. It can feel like ice with this term that describes an unrehearsed reading of a script by actors.
What is a cold reading?
Their rules for a good play defined that plays should all take place in one location, occur in real time, and focus on one plot (time, place, action) also known as the 3 this.
What are unities?
Actors in Commedia Dell'Arte would typically have comedic physical routines that were better known by this term.
What is a lazzi?
The medieval play Everyman is one of the best known examples of this type of theater, largely used by the church during the Middle Ages.
What are Morality Plays?
Playwright Ntozake Shange is best known for this long-titled, experimental show that was recently revived on Broadway.
What is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide...When the Rainbow is Enuf?
This person in a production is responsible for researching the context of a play to help the actors understand the given circumstances.
What is a dramaturg?