THEA 241 - Exam #1 - Carlsen (UD) questions and answers all are correct

What is theatre? - Answer-Communication, subjective, live storytelling, conflict and resolution, education, course, transfer of information, entertainment, business, collaborative art form, interactive, building, holding mirror, scope (theatre of war), soapbox, human experience, opinion, place to see live performance, career, improvisation Theatre started with _____ first & _____ second - Answer-Greeks, Romans Greatest influence for western theatre - Answer-Greeks, Elizabethan Renaissance, and 20th C. Building Gobekli Tepe, 9600 BC - Answer-people came to ritualize it Early Greek Farmers - Answer-plowing the farming circle early greek theatre started with - Answer-poets writing for religious ceremonies - people were there and they built the place where the people were Homer - Answer-stories go back to him Thespis - Answer-stood on a cart, first to use one actor won the first contest 534 BCE Aeschuylus - Answer-small circle theatre, gave us the second actor Sophocles - Answer-gave us this actor, that was it for the Greeks Euripides - Answer-larger circle theatre Greek Theatre Tragedy - Answer-Gods, Catharsis, Flaw, Universal truthsDionysus - Answer-God of fertility, wine, sexuality, and patron of theatre Choral odes - Answer-50 performers all MALE Thrashing circle to religious ceremonies - Answer-think rites and rituals, became dancing circle 534 BC - Answer-Athens first dramatic festival once a year 495-420 - Answer-Pericles Golden Age at one point made theatre free to all amphitheatre (greek) - Answer-entire theatre structure theatron (greek) - Answer-area of seating, "seeing place" orchestra (greek) - Answer-"dancing circle" thymele (greek) - Answer-altar skene (greek) - Answer-stage house and our word scenery proskene (greek) - Answer-front of stage and our word proscenium