What is Theater? Crash Course 1

Who is the Greek god of theater?

• Hermes

• Dionysus

• Apollo

• Odin

What does the word "theater" mean in Ancient Greek?

• The Seating Place

• The Playing Place

• The Drama Place

• The Seeing Place

To be a "theater," a theater must have what?

• nothing and anything

• a stage

• a roof

• 4 walls

A familiar definition of theater is that ____.

• "it was written to be performed"

• "It has words"

• "it has one actor and one audience"

• "it is dramatic"

Fill in the blanks: Theater is a deliberate performance, created by live actors for a __________. typically making use of scripted language.

• playwright

• king or queen

• live audience

• television show

What is a shibboleth?

• a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.

• an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.

• a single television production featuring well-known performers and characterized by elaborate sets, costumes, staging, etc.

• an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound,

Which is the more common spelling outside the United States?

• theater

• theatre

Which word means "mediating between the natural and the supernatural, serving to enact or re-enact significant events the natural or supernatural world?"

• ribald

• rites

• rivals

• ritual

Which of these famous men help contribute to the beginning understanding of ritual theater?

• James Blunt

• James Cromwell

• James Frazer

• James Franco

Which word means that the idea involves a distinctly European idea of the world instead of a more worldly view of other cultures.

• epcot-centric

• euro-centric

• western centric

• Ukian