Greek actors wore these to show characters and amplify their voices.
What are masks?
100
The theatrical technique that most resembles "real life"
What is realism?
100
The most classic design, this style of stage has the audience seated on one side, viewing through the "arch"
What is a proscenium theater?
100
The first guideline of good improvisation, this encourages actors to take the given circumstances and keep the scene moving.
What is "yes and"?
100
He wrote "Romeo and Juliet"
Who is William Shakespeare?
200
This civilization enjoyed a style of theatre focused on entertainment, and included animal fights, sea battles, and chariot races.
Who are the Romans?
200
This theater style was developed as a reaction to the disillusionment of a post WWII world and depicted the strangeness of modern life.
What is theatre of the absurd?
200
This area, shielded from the audience by curtains, is used for actors to make changes and prepare for their entrances during a performance.
What is backstage?
200
The term for what a character wants in a scene.
What is objective?
200
The reigning monarch of England during the time Shakespeare wrote plays.
Who is Queen Elizabeth/King James?
300
This Greek philosopher described six elements of drama in his work "Poetics"
Who is Aristotle?
300
This Russian director was the developer of "The Method" of realistic acting.
Who is Constantin Stanislavski?
300
The area onstage furthest from the audience, so called for the rise in elevation when the stage is raked.
What is upstage?
300
These squares are used to make connections to, and powerfully display emotions.
What are RASABOXES?
300
This commedia dell'arte master was the foreigner in the play. He was a soldier and braggart but also a coward.
Who is El Capitano?
400
This Greek playwright wrote over 120 plays in his lifetime, including Antigone and the Oedipus Cycle.
Who is Sophocles?
400
This play features townspeople subjecting to peer-pressure and transforming into large, lumbering land animals.
What is Rhinoceros?
400
This style of stage has flexible audience seating, and frequently has views from 4 sides of the stage.
What is a black box theater/theater in the round?
400
This refers to a character's train of thought onstage. What they are thinking at all times.
What is inner monologue?
400
This theater, home to Shakespeare's plays, featured a large open area in front for the "groundlings"
What is the Globe?
500
He was the Greek God of fertility, wine, and later, the theater.
Who is Dionysus?
500
This playwright wrote "A Doll's House"- one of the earliest and most notable works of realism.
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
500
This is the area of a theater that the audience sits in, including the seats, box office, lobby, bathrooms, etc.
What is the house?
500
This technique uses an actors gestures and facial features to show an object onstage which is not actually there.
What is pantomine?
500
This Commedia Dell'Arte servant was very smart and capable of tricking other characters. She was an expert at flirting and flattery and often played an instrument.