Roman Theatre

Roman Plays used masks

• True

• False

What is the name of this building?

• Circus

• Colosseum

• Theatre

Greeks did not influence Roman plays or festivals.

• True

• False

Who were the two major writers of Roman Comedy

• Terrence and Phillip
• Terrence and Platus
• Oedipus and Medea
• Sophecles and Aeschelus

All of the following were popular Theatre themes in Rome except

• Comedies

• Violence and death

• Tragedies

Romans typically stayed at the theater all day.

• true
• false

The actors performed on the stage, in the playing space in front of the__________ , called the proscaenium (proscenium).

• scaenae frons

• cavea

• auditorium

Roman stages had trap doors.

• true

• false

All of the following is true about the Theatre of Pompeii except;

• Rome's first stone theatre

• Was started in 100 BCE

• Where Caesar was killed

• Included gardens

The Roman Colosseum was not the largest theatre built.

• True

• False