Modern and Contemporary
A form of theatre where the audience is the center of a piece of the performance.
What is the Theatre of Cruelty?
This imaginary barrier was constructed between the stage and the audience.
What is the fourth wall?
Who were not allowed to perform during the Elizabeth era of the Renaissance?
Who were women?
Who were Miracle plays dedicated to?
What are Saints?
An amphitheatre
What is a type of outdoor theatre built into a hillside?
This form of drama pushes theatre to the extremes and questions what reality/unreality looks like (far more nightmarish than funny).
What is Theatre of the Absurd?
This play by Henrik Ibsen was widely banned for its feminist themes.
What is A Doll's House?
What theatre was William Shakespeare known for hosting his plays in?
What is The Globe Theatre?
What did passion plays teach the populace about?
What is Christianity?
Two characters that masks helped Greek actors portray on stage
Who are women and gods?
Theatre that values the body of the actor and its relation with the spectator and does away with costumes, decor and music.
What is Poor Theatre?
Who is Tennessee Williams?
Where did the Renaissance originate in Europe?
Where is Florence, Italy?
The longest running currently-performed Passion Play
What is the Oberammergau Passion Play?
Who serves as a narrator to the drama in Greek theatre
What is the chorus?
Form of theatre that refers to an era of theatre-making that has (recently) passed?
What is Modern Theatre?
These longtime staples of theatre that require an audience to set aside real-world truths to enjoy a play were discarded by realist playwrights.
What are dramatic conventions?
What is Elizabethan Theatre?
What was s style of English theatre performance which was popularized during the reign of Elizabeth I and continued with her successors.
The most popular form of theater in the middle ages
What are Mystery Plays?
The wall at the back of a Roman Theatre
What is Scanae Frons?
This form of theatre intends to be events as a part of life (as any other event), discarding the idea of theatre as a representation of life. The outcome of a play might change from performance to performance.
What is Post-Modern Theatre?
This development redefined the role of the common man in Europe and was a major factor in the shift to realism in theatre.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
What were three types of plays performed during Renaissance?
What were contemporary poetic dramas based on ancient texts, Latinized versions of Greek dramas, the works of Seneca, Terence, and Plautus
The plays about St.Mary regularly involve her in the role of
Who is deus ex machina?
The earliest Greek performances occurred at a play festival honoring this god
Who is Dionysus?