THEA 119 (Art Humanities and Theater) EXAM
1 LATEST UPDATED STUDY GUIDE CARLSEN UD.
What is theatre?
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
Greeks, Romans
Greatest influence for western theatre
Greeks, Elizabethan Renaissance, and 20th C.
Building Gobekli Tepe, 9600 BC
people came to ritualize it
Early Greek Farmers
plowing the farming circle
early greek theatre started with
poets writing for religious ceremonies - people were there and they built the place
where the people were
Homer
stories go back to him
Thespis
stood on a cart, first to use one actor
won the first contest 534 BCE
Aeschuylus
small circle theatre, gave us the second actor
Sophocles
, gave us this actor, that was it for the Greeks
Euripides
larger circle theatre
Greek Theatre Tragedy
Gods, Catharsis, Flaw, Universal truths
Dionysus
God of fertility, wine, sexuality, and patron of theatre
Choral odes
50 performers all MALE
Thrashing circle to religious ceremonies
think rites and rituals, became dancing circle
534 BC
Athens first dramatic festival once a year
495-420
Pericles Golden Age at one point made theatre free to all
amphitheatre (greek)
entire theatre structure
theatron (greek)
area of seating, "seeing place"
orchestra (greek)
"dancing circle"
thymele (greek)
altar
skene (greek)
stage house and our word scenery
1 LATEST UPDATED STUDY GUIDE CARLSEN UD.
What is theatre?
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
Greeks, Romans
Greatest influence for western theatre
Greeks, Elizabethan Renaissance, and 20th C.
Building Gobekli Tepe, 9600 BC
people came to ritualize it
Early Greek Farmers
plowing the farming circle
early greek theatre started with
poets writing for religious ceremonies - people were there and they built the place
where the people were
Homer
stories go back to him
Thespis
stood on a cart, first to use one actor
won the first contest 534 BCE
Aeschuylus
small circle theatre, gave us the second actor
Sophocles
, gave us this actor, that was it for the Greeks
Euripides
larger circle theatre
Greek Theatre Tragedy
Gods, Catharsis, Flaw, Universal truths
Dionysus
God of fertility, wine, sexuality, and patron of theatre
Choral odes
50 performers all MALE
Thrashing circle to religious ceremonies
think rites and rituals, became dancing circle
534 BC
Athens first dramatic festival once a year
495-420
Pericles Golden Age at one point made theatre free to all
amphitheatre (greek)
entire theatre structure
theatron (greek)
area of seating, "seeing place"
orchestra (greek)
"dancing circle"
thymele (greek)
altar
skene (greek)
stage house and our word scenery
