CLASSIC PLAYS AND OPERA

Cards (45)

  • What does Theatre mean?
    Place of Seeing
  • Who writes the script in a Theatre?
    Playwright
  • Who rehearses the performers in a Theatre?
    Director
  • Who produces props?
    Designer and technical crew
  • Who performs on stage in a theatre?
    Actors and Actresses
  • When did Greek Theatre begin?
    700 BC
  • Began with festivals honoring many gods
    Greek Theatre
  • A city where festivals and competitions were usually performed
    Athens
  • “Experience Travel — these are as education in themselves”
    Euripides
  • “Always desire to learn something useful”
    Sophocles
  • “Memory is the mother of all wisdom”
    Aeschylus
  • Compound of two Greek words “Tragos” and “Ode”
    Tradegy
  • Greek word meaning “Goat”
    Tragos
  • Greek word meaning “Song”
    Ode
  • The most admired type of play in Greece
    Tragedy
  • The first actor of Tragedy who introduced the use of masks in Greece
    Thespis
  • He was called “The Father of Tragedy”
    Thespis
  • Derived from imitation
    Comedy
  • Who wrote most of the comedy plays?
    Aristophanes
  • Out of the 11 plays, what play survived?
    Lysistrata
  • An adventurous comedy written by Euripides
    Cyclops
  • Contains comic elements
    Satyr
  • Was a short, light-hearted, tailpiece performance
    Satyr
  • Ancient Greek form of tragic comedy
    Satyr
  • Featured half man half goat characters that were usually drunk, awful and ridiculous
    Satyr
  • A half man half goat
    Satyrs
  • A half man half goat
    Satyrs
  • What was Ancient Greek theatre called?
    Theatron
  • A large open air structure constructed on the slopes of a hill
    Theater
  • What are the three elements of a theater in Greece?
    Orchestraskeneaudience
  • A large circular or rectangular area where acting took place in ancient Greece
    Orchestra
  • Viewing place on the slope of a hill
    Theatron
  • Exit or entrance in a Greek Theater
    Paradon
  • The stage that were usually uses as a background
    Skene
  • When did the theater of Rome begin?
    3rd Century BC
  • This theater varied interesting art forms like street theater, acrobatics, tragedies of Seneca
    Roman Theater
  • This encouraged the development of Latin Literature
    Roman Culture
  • Were the first experienced theater in a Roman Theater
    Etruscan Actors
  • When did Roman Drama begin?
    240 BC
  • Roman Drama began with the plays of…
    Livius Andronicus