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General Theater Trivia
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
03/10/2009

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Thespis of Attica
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Guy who invented actors. Grecian. 5th century B.C.
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Skene
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where actors changed costumes in ancient Greece
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3
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number of actors (besides the chorus) on-stage in Grecian theater
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Periaktoi - plural and Periaktos - singular
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Triangular prisms which could be pivoted to reveal three different backgrounds
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eccyclema
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a wheeled platform containing mangled, bloody bodies of actors that fought off-stage
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deus ex machina
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assisting human characters in solving their problems by divine intervention. (god from machine)
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Aeschylus
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Father of Greek Tragedy. Wrote the Oresteia trilogy
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Agamemnon
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first play of the Oresteia trilogy in which the lead returns from 10 years of fighting war and acts with hubris and is killed by Clytemnestra, his wife.
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Sophocles
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Added third actor to Grecian theater. Wrote Oedipus Rex about the king who saved the city of Thebes but killed his father and married his mother.
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Antigone
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written by Sophocles about a girl who tried to properly bury her dead brother but is killed by Creon in the end
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Euripedes
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youngest and least popular of the three great writers of tragedy. Wrote Medea, about the sorceress who helped Jason win the Golden Fleece
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The Trojan Women
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A powerful anti-war play written by Euripedes
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Aristophanes
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Writer of the Old Comedy, in which he poked fun at Socrates (The Clouds) and Euripedes (The Frogs)
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Lysistrata
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Play about women ending the 21-year Peloponnesian war. Written by Aristophanes
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Menander
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Writer of New Comedy. He wrote The Curmudgeon.
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