Walkway that allows actors to get close to the audience via a path beyond the proscenium arch into the orchestra pit.
What is the passarelle?
100
Created by Kwanami Kiotsugu, these plays were the dominant form of drama in the 14th Century.
What are Noh plays?
100
During this era, there was a strictly observed distinction between the warrior class and the common people.
What is the Japanese Edo Era?
100
Indian drama was born from this ancient tradition.
What is social and religious poetry being read at celebrations and feasts?
100
The father of Indian drama.
Who is Bhrata?
200
Lamp with a frosted finish that serves to diffuse light; used when soft light is needed.
What is a pearl?
200
Noh plays featured only this.
What is men? (who wore masks when playing women or gods.)
200
Kabuki theatre addresses this.
What is the injustices of the people who faced the harsh laws of the feudal system?
200
According to Indian lore, theatre has THESE origins.
What is mythical?
200
The way Indian plays opened and closed.
What is with a prayer? (in the beginning, the prayer was followed by narration of what was to come in the play.)
300
Lighting platforms located on the sides of a stage behind the proscenium.
What are the perches?
300
Noh plays always begin with this character who reveals this information.
Who is a traveler who reveals his name and the destinations to which he will travel throughout the course of the play?
300
Males who played female roles.
What is onnagata?
300
Indian culture believed man had ____ ages.
What is three? (each age growing more distant from the will of the gods.)
300
The majority of Indian plays occurred in THIS FORM that described and reflected upon these THREE VALUES.
What is prose, beauty, morality and wisdom?
400
Luminaire use to focus a small tight beam of light onto a specific area.
What is a pin spot?
400
Each place the traveler visits is inhabited by this character.
Who is the Spirit of the Place? (who tells a tale of suffering.)
400
Kabuki bagan as a production in which the majority of the players were THIS but because they were seen as garnering too much attention, the government banned them from appearing in performances.
What is female?
400
Pitying man's insatiable appetite, this god solicited the head god to create a spectacle so that man could satiate his appetite.
Who is Indra?
400
These WERE NOT part of Indian productions.
What are acts of violence and and displays of affection?
500
Refers to the area of a theatre in which the orchestra is seated.
What is the pit?
500
Noh plays end like this.
What is the traveler praying for the Spirit of the Place to find peace and then a song is sung to honor the gods?
500
Kabuki theatre is unique in that it combines several other types of Japanese theatre, including these.
What are Noh plays, Bunraku (puppet theatre) and the realist productions of the 19th Century.
500
The head god came up with the idea of Veda, or Veda of the Theatre. This is the fifth Veda.
What is drama? (the four earlier Vedas: dance, song, mimicry and passion.)
500
In Indian dramas, this was the subject of many performances.
What is magic? (featuring a character who changed into an animal and required the intervention of the gods.)