Theatre History

What was the purpose of the skene?

What did Greek Theatre originally celebrate?

The first actor was Oedipus.

Theatre History is important for us to know

More than 20,000 people attended the yearly festival of Dionysus.

Shorter morality plays that included more humorous characters and incidents were

Theatre was outlawed for a period of time.

Greek actors showed that they had changed to a different role by...

Theatre never fully recovered after the middle ages.

Plays about right and wrong were

Plays based on bible stories, usually biblical history were...

In what institution was theatre reborn?

Besides the chorus, how many actors were in Greek plays?

The period following the fall of the Roman Empire is known as..

Who wrote Greek Comedies?

What is the orchestra in Greek Theatre?

What types of plays were becoming popular by the end of the middle ages?

Miracle plays were plays about the...

The Passion Play addresses the two weeks of whose life?

The Greeks built their theatres on hillsides

The original Medieval plays were short question and answer scenes performed during Easter were called what?

The only performers at the beginning of the middle ages were the priests.

Aristotle wrote a book of poems.