African Theatre

Theatre, along with human civilization, almost certainly began in..............?

• Asia

• Africa

• Canada

• Antarctica

African Theatre Is Based On And Influenced By What Two Aspects?

• Comedy & Tragedy

• Singing & Dancing

• Rituals & Storytelling

• Eating & Drinking

_____________ is A Collective Ceremony, Performed By Members Of A Society.

• Impersonation

• Ritual

• Origin

• Storytelling

Rituals Arose To Commemorate __________ _______________. ex. births/deaths, marriages etc.

• Life events

• Olympic games

• Dance parties

• Royal families

Which Is NOT a Modern Rite/Ritual

• Bat Mitzvah

• Weddings

• Baptism

• 1st day of school

__________________ is Recounting daily adventures in order to pass down info through generations.

• Improvisation

• Stand-up

• Storytelling

• Rites

A west African storyteller is known as a __________

• Yoruba

• Alarinjo

• Ritualist

• Griot

T/F: Northern Africa (the area roughly bordering the Mediterranean Sea) used written language before sub-Saharan Africa.

• True

• False

T/F: Yoruba performing groups called Alarinjo grew out of rituals of ancestor worship.

• True

• False

T/F: Among African countries where Islam dominates, the earliest country to allow theatre was Egypt.

• True

• False