Primitive Theatre
These were a visual form of storytelling.
What are Cave Drawings?
Has male actors only.
What is Kabuki and Noh?
The festival of Dionysus was also known as...
What is Greater Dionysia?
These types of plays were stories about moral behavior.
What are Morality Plays?
Shows had to be performed in the daytime for this reason.
What is No Electricity?
The first and most widespread mode of human communication.
What are Oral Traditions or Orality?
Only for the wealthy.
What is Noh?
This told the audience various bits of information and/or represented a group of people.
What is The Greek Chorus?
These types of plays were biblical stories.
What are Mystery Plays?
These classes of people watched plays.
What is Rich and poor people alike?
Cave drawings gave us clues into this.
What is what primitive groups found important and what they wanted to archive.
Uses face paint.
What is Kabuki?
The festival of Dionysus was...
What is A festival to celebrate and honor Dionysus, god of theatre?
These were the precursor, or the things that came before, to parade floats.
The reason plays were subject to censorship by the crown.
What is so that nothing could cause people to go against the country?
Rituals are...
What are a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order?
Comes from traditional Japanese dance traditions.
What is Kabuki?
Masks were used for this reason.
What is To allow the audience to better see the characters, to allow actors to change characters?
These are character types that show up often.
What are Stock characters?
These types of mythology influenced works.
What is Greek and Roman mythology?
Oral traditions were especially important to these groups around the world.
What are the indigenous peoples and West Africa?
Small gestures and movements.
What is Noh?
Theatres were considered "open air" because of this reason.
What are Theatres were outside with no roof?
Commedia dell’arte was formed in this period.
What is the LATE Medieval period?
The result of Sumptuary Laws.
What is it was illegal to wear certain items that were set to indicate high rank or status?