Theatre is Everywhere
Films, Television, and electronic modes of expression have challenged live theatre over the past century in this broad category.
What are other dramatic media?
Theatre, dance, and opera all exist in both of these dimensions, unlike music or the visual arts.
What are time and space?
What is imitation?
Who is the director?
Also called a picture-frame stage, this theatre type has the audience facing the stage directly.
What is the proscenium stage?
Unlike interior decorating, a stage set isn't complete until it's occupied by these people.
Who are the performers?
Theatre has survived competition from screens chiefly because of this: the audience and these performers share the same physical space.
What are live actors?
The performing arts need interpreters and a live audience, and they're described by this word meaning they vanish once the performance ends.
What is ephemeral?
In everyday life, the acting out of a particular role by copying the expected social behavior of that position.
What is role playing?
Fitting performers into roles.
What is casting?
With the audience seated in a circle or square around the playing area, this stage is economical and intimate.
What is the arena (circle) stage?
Line, mass, composition, texture, color, rhythm, and movement are all these.
What are elements of design?
Broadway shows that run to turn a profit belong to this venue category.
What is commercial theatre?
Because audience, performers, text, director, theatre space, and design must all be coordinated, theatre is called this kind of art.
What is a collaborative art?
Imitation and role playing are examples of this, which all humans do in everyday life.
What is acting?
Pattern and arrangement of performers' movements onstage with respect to each other and to the stage space, usually set by the director.
What is blocking?
This platform stage has seating on three sides, with entrances and exits made at the rear.
What is the thrust stage?
Scenery, lighting, costumes, props, or sound that seem highly unusual or miraculous are known as these.
What are special effects?
Regional companies like those in LORT, which rely on donations and grants, fall under this venue type.
What is nonprofit professional theatre?
Audience participation in theatre is described by this word, even though the audience stays mentally and emotionally active.
What is vicarious?
This Russian director developed a system to help actors believe in the "truth" of what they say and do.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavski?
In American usage, the person responsible for the business side of a production, including raising the necessary money.
Who is the producer?
An open, adaptable room that can be configured into many stage-audience arrangements goes by this two-word name.
What is a black box?
This person supervises construction of scenery and oversees load in and load out.
Who is the technical director?
Along with college and amateur theatre, this venue serves young audiences.
What is children's theatre?
This person, whether critic, reviewer, or blogger, can help audiences understand a play and its performance.
Who is the theatre critic?
Stanislavski's tool of imagination, which asks an actor to act as though a situation were real, goes by this two-word name.
What is the "magic if"?
This type of director makes the text serve their own purposes rather than serving the text.
What is an auteur director?
Non-theatre buildings, street theatre, and immersive or site-specific spaces are all forms of this.
What is created or found space?
Working in tandem with the director and the playwright. This person creates the visual world in which a play unfolds.
Who is the scenic designer?
This type of theatre deliberately breaks conventions and pushes boundaries in form.
What is avant-garde (or experimental) theatre?
Art forms fall into three categories: literary, visual, and this one, which includes theatre.
What are the performing arts?
Also called the through line, this runs through a role from the beginning to the end of a play.
What is the spine?
These directors often "deconstruct" a text or rearrange its elements to create a new theatre piece.
Who are postmodern directors?
Besides the five basic arrangements, this configuration places the audience on two sides, facing each other.
What is an alley (traverse) stage?
What are the scenic designer's objectives?
Rock concerts, theme parks, sports events, and religious services all contain these.
What are theatrical elements?
The term we use to describe the audience's desire to believe in the reality of what is happening onstage.
What is the willing suspension of disbelief?
In his later work, Stanislavski flipped the order, arguing that this leads to emotion, not the other way around.
What is action (psychophysical action)?
A rehearsal that focuses on running through the production with scenery, props, lighting, costumes, and sound for the first time.
What is a technical rehearsal?
The proscenium's large backstage area and this overhead space allow for elaborate scene shifts.
What is a fly loft?
Broadly, an attempt to present onstage people, places, and events corresponding to those in everyday life.
What is realism?