Greek Theatre

This ensemble of people in identical, plain masks performing in unison

• Greek Singers

• Large Chorus

• Greek Salad

• Greek Chorus

How do actors show that they are playing multiple characters?

• Stand at different levels

• Face different directions

• Change their mask

• Announce their new character name before speaking

________ was the first actor.

• The Rock

• Theopin

• Thespis

• Theatre guy

Beginning of the play, provides exposition

• Prologue

• Stasimon / Ode

• Proskene

• Episode

A speech/song performed by the chorus at the end of the Episode

• Exodos

• Parados

• skene

• Choral Ode / stasimon

Tragedies caused an emotional cleansing for the audience, called a

• catharsis

• skene

• in medias res

• strophe

Tragedy gets its name from the Greek practice of:

• Writing sad plays: Tragedy means sad

• All the actors crying during the play

• The sacrifice of chickens to honor Zeus

• Sacrificing goats before the play to honor Dionysus

What was Deus ex Machina?

• God out of the machine- when the hero was in danger, a god would be lowered in a crane to solve the problem.
• A stage device involving a trap door for appearing and disappearing
• An Athenian acting troupe
• Latin words that have nothing to do with the Greeks

The Greek word for theatre (theatron) translates to the:

• Performance space

• Acting place

• Seeing place

• Performance place

The final chorus chant at the where the moral of the tragedy is discussed.

• Exodos / Epilogue

• Episode

• Parados

• Prologue