A small building in back if an acting platform where Greek actors changed their masks was called the skene.

The first known actor was Greek and his named was...

Primitive people used animal skins as costumes?

What were primitive people who oversaw the rituals called?

The Shaman's positions in the tribe was as the leader of the hunt.

Why was theatre banned for a short time in the Middle Ages?

Who were the only performers in the early Medieval era?

A set of cycles performed together was a trope.

How many people oversaw the rituals in primitive times?

A popular theory on how theatre was started is that the shaman created plays for the tribe to act out to pass time in the winter.

Who wrote Greek tragedies?

What specific type of play made fun of Greek legends?

Who wrote Greek comedies?

The Greeks built their theaters on hillsides.

What did Greek theater originally celebrate?

Which Greek playwright is known for his tragedies, including "Oedipus Rex"?

The period following the fall of the Roman Empire was known as the Middle Ages.

In what institution was theatre reborn?

The clergy turned the services over to the craft guilds due to a lack of time.

Where were tropes originally presented?

Theatre wagons were used to carry the players form one location to another so they can act in multiple locations.

What does Sophocles name mean in Greek?

What two things did Sophocles win prizes for as a young man?

Pericles was the most famous Greek political and military leader of Sophocles' time.

Heroditus was a famous historian and an enemy to Sophocles.

Who was Sophocles' teacher?

How many plays did Sophocles write?

What do many of Sophocles' plays teach?

How old was Sophocles when he died?

What book did Aristotle write about the theatre of his time?

In Greek theatre the actors changes masks to change characters.

15,000 people attended the yearly festival of honoring Athena.

Something performed repeatedly in exactly the same way is a ____?