Collaborative Theatre Flashcards
What have you learned about the stage?
The directions of the stage, the name of the stage areas, how the stage is used…
What is collaborative theatre?
When many people work together to put on a play, such as a director, actors, writers, costume designers, builders ext.
Describe the director’s vision?
The main point of the story that the director wants to share in the play.
What does it mean that theatre is the mirror of society?
Theatre reflects the culture of the writer, what they thought was important or interesting will be based on what was happening at the time.
How did theatre start a long time ago?
Before hunting or after hunting or to replay important moments of local history or as part of tribal religious ceremonies small plays were created and repeated.
Describe Egyptian Theatre.
There were plays that told of Osirus getting killed by his brother and avenged by his son and wife Isis, Greeks would watch the plays in Egypt then go back to Greece and make their own plays.
Do you remember Greek Festivals?
There was a festival dedicated to Dionosis the wine God, and sometimes to Demeter the agriculture Godess. The festival of Dionosis would last three days and different poets competed to win first place, there were three tragedies and one satyr play on each day, the same actor performed all the plays by themselves wearing different masks and a group of singers would sing songs on the side.
What is a tragedy?
A sad play.
Who was Thespis?
The first Greek actor who was officially paid as an actor.
What were Greek festivals like?
One person would pay for each poet, there were three poets who competed, judges would vote for a winner, actors would perform plays all day long alone.
Do you remember the Greek playwrights?
There were three and they portrayed mankind differently, one very well behaved, one as trying their best and one as flawed.
What do you remember about Oedipus Rex?
The king gets killed by his son, who replaced him, and marries his mother.
Do you remember any other Greek playwrights?
There was one who won first place writing about a grumpy character.
What was Greek Comedy like?
A day was added to the theatre festival, the City Dionosis to have comedies that were not the same as satyr plays.
What was the architecture of Greek Theatres like?
Seats circled the stage, the stage had a small covered area to store costumes, the seats rose on a hill or on benches made of stone. There were stairs for the actors to get on stage.
