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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
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