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WorksheetsWhat is Theater? Crash Course 1
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 12mins
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....
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 __________, created by ________ for a __________. typically making use of ________.
Deliberate performance
live actors
live audience
scripted language
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
The idea that everything is just going to get better and better all the time is?
pessimism
negativism
positivism
optimism
The idea that myths and therefore theater were designed to explain some part of the world at large is called....
functionalism
hedionism
nihilism
fractionism
Theater can be seen as a way of explaining
entertainment
religion
gravity
ourselves
What does mimetic impulse mean?
Humans must become mimes
Humans must mimic to learn
Humans are attracted to other humans
Humans micromanage each other.
According to Shelly, the highest purpose of drama/theater is to teach the human....
brain
experience
heart
relationship
Bonus Question: What Broadway show did the presenter NOT mention ???
Hamilton
Dear Evan Hanson
West Side Story
Cats
