Greek Theatre

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  1. 2. Euripides - a Greek playwright who wrote tragedies, including Medea
  2. 4. Sophocles – a Greek playwright who wrote tragedies, including Oedipus
  3. 6. Scene (pronounced SKAY-nuh) – was a temporary enclosure with
  4. 7. Paradoi – were aisles that actors would use to enter if they were
  5. 11. Greek Theatre Machines – were used during the performances. They
  6. 12. Over time, the Koilon was built, first of wood, then stone.
  7. 14. Theologion – the flat roof of the scene, reserved for actors playing gods.
  8. 18. Performers would get into masks and robes in the scene and
  9. 20. “Gods” would often appear at the end of a play to resolve
  10. 22. kept inside the scene.
  11. 23. 534 B.C. He was also the first to have a member of the chorus
  12. 25. was done because Greek theatre never showed a murder or
  13. 26. – an actor. The term was created from Thespis’ name.
  14. 28. be rotated to change scenes during the performance
  15. 30. to be coming from outside (not the temple or palace).
  16. 31. step away from the group and speak lines as a solo
  17. 32. rehearse their own plays.
  18. 34. the leader of the chorus (koryphaios) would stand.
  19. 35. festival. This is important to us because the festivities
  20. 36. a competition for the best play. Playwrights would write
Down
  1. 1. Thymela – originally an altar on the orchestra, this became the spot
  2. 2. Aeorema – a crane that lifted the “gods” from the scene onto the
  3. 3. - a Greek playwright who wrote comedies, including The
  4. 4. Ekeclema – platform carrying “dead bodies” that was wheeled on.
  5. 5. audience just sat on the slope of the hill, looking down to the
  6. 7. Deus Ex Machina – literally “god from the machine”. This is the term
  7. 8. Proscenion – the area directly in front of the scene where the actors
  8. 9. perform. NOTE: the proscenion gradually became the acting
  9. 10. on stage.
  10. 11. Periactoi – two prismatic pillars, one stage left, one stage right. These
  11. 13. was the Greek stage.
  12. 15. Aeschylus - a Greek playwright who wrote tragedies, including The
  13. 16. Diazoma – upper and lower levels of the Koilon (auditorium).
  14. 17. a play’s conflict being solved by a supernatural power.
  15. 19. – a round floor on ground level at the bottom of a hill. This
  16. 21. Thespis, then, is credited with being the first actor.
  17. 24. – the first playwright to win the contest at the Dionysian festival
  18. 26. conflict.
  19. 27. through the doors, which represented the temple or palace.
  20. 29. (or Theatron) – the auditorium of the Greek theatre. Originally,
  21. 32. – the original acting area was the orchestra.
  22. 33. – Greek God of wine and fertility that was honored in an