Types of Theatre
Theatre that began around 1570. They were also used in the first London playhouses. They extend into the audience.
What is a thrust theatre?
A box filled with glass or shards for sound effects.
What is the crash box?
A person from the professional theatre, employed for a specified period to train others (usually university students) in acting or other theatre arts.
What is an artist in residence?
The auditorium or where the teachers, and peers sit.
What is the house?
Lights programmed in a computer.
What is intelligent lighting?
A large, round, open-air theatre that is 400 years old.
What is the globe theatre?
A place on the top of the balcony where a technician controls the sound.
What is the sound booth?
No longer used. The fire or fireproof or safety curtain.
What is the asbestos curtain?
The balcony closest to the stage floor.
What is the mezzanine?
A quick increase in light intensity.
What is a bump up?
A theatre where a frame or arch separates the stage from the auditorium.
What is a proscenium stage?
What are tweeters?
Originally a male performer in a play.
What is an actor?
The areas of a theatre that are not part of the house or stage.
What is back stage?
Light used to soften deep shadows in a scene.
What is a fill light?
The advantages of an open theatre.
What is the opportunity to have audience participation?
A set of loudspeakers flown in a performance space.
What is an array?
Having no current acting engagement, out of work, available for casting.
What is at liberty?
The frame around a proscenium stage.
What is the proscenium arch?
A low level fill light.
What is a wash?
The disadvantages of a black-box theatre.
What is the audience can see everything, even during blackouts?
A device that converts electrical energy into acoustical signal energy that is radiated into a room.
What is a loudspeaker?
Facility available on larger sound mixing desks allowing channel muting or even fader moves to be taken under the control of a computer to ensure accurate and repeatable mixing.
What is automation?
Performance space in which the stage floor is slanted upward toward the back of the stage.
What is raked?
A feature used to magnify and reduce the size of the lit area on stage.
What is zoom?