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What is a group of actors/crew working together cooperatively?
What is an Ensemble
100

This character tried to escape a prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother.

Who is Oedipus?

100
What is an acting technique that uses no words to tell a story?
What is Pantomime
100

Shakespeare's first name

What is William?

100

"That" is the question in Hamlet.

What is "To be, or not to be."

200
The section of the theatre where the audience sits is called...?
What is the House
200

This genre of theatre is often related to the mustache twirling villain, damsel in distress, and handsome hero.

What is melodrama?

200
The arrangement of incidents that take place in a play is called...?
What is the Plot
200
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination". True or False?
True
200

This duo is responsible for some of the most popular musicals in history. (Cinderella, Oklahoma, Sound of Music)

Who is Rodgers and Hammerstein?

300
A spontaneous style of theatre using unrehearsed and unscripted acting scenes is called...?
What is Improvisation.
300

This performer left a career in science/engineering to become one of the world's most renowned pantomime artists of this century.

Who is Mr. Bean?

300

Name 4 different crews for a theatre production.

Props, Sets, Lights, Sound, Costumes

300
Shakespeare, one of literature’s greatest figures, never attended university. True or False?
True
300
This type of theatre inspired shows like Saturday Night Live, All That, MADTv and In Living Color.

What is vaudeville?

400
Peoples unconscious habbits or peculiarities are called?
What are Mannerisms.
400
Actors never say "good luck" before a performance. Instead they say.....?
What is Break a Leg!
400

What is the imaginary space between the stage and the audience often called?

What is the 4th wall?

400
Shakespeare's wife.

Who is Ann Hathaway?

400

This is the name of Shakespeare's theater.

What is the globe?

500
What is a characters inner drive that causes them to act a certain way?
What is Motivation.
500

This happens by the end of Hamlet to pretty much everyone except Fortinbras.

What is death?

500
After the production the taking apart of the sets is called?
What is Strike.
500
Out of the 13 suicides in Shakespeare's plays name 2 of them.
It occurs in Romeo and Juliet where both Romeo and Juliet commit suicide, in Julius Caesar where both Cassius and Brutus die by consensual stabbing, as well as Brutus’ wife Portia, in Othello where Othello stabs himself, in Hamlet where Ophelia is said to have "drowned" in suspicious circumstances, in Macbeth when Lady Macbeth dies, and finally in Antony and Cleopatra where suicide occurs an astounding five times (Mark Antony, Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras and Eros).
500

Rent and Jesus Christ Superstar are examples of this type of musical.

What are rock operas?