The Audience & Theatre
This component of theatre is its most important; without it, a play is just a bunch of people having fun on stage.
What is the audience?
This type of venue finds the audience sitting on all four sides of the stage.
What is an arena, or theatre in the round?
He was the first person to create an acting technique, and is considered the father of modern acting.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavski?
This is the arrangement of events, or the selection and order of scenes of the play.
What is a plot?
It was common for Scandinavian people to take holidays to warmer climates to recover from illnesses, like this country that Nora and Torvald travel to.
What is Italy?
Theatre is always about this subject, one of the reasons it's so compelling.
What are people?
This type of theatre finds the stage protruding into the audience, with the audience sitting on three sides.
What is a thrust?
This element of the Stanislavski technique is considered the hardest to master.
What is concentration?
Throughout a play, a character faces these; they may be physical or psychological.
What are obstacles?
At a masquerade ball, Nora performs this dance, a symbol of deceit and agitation.
What is the tarantella?
When we attend theatre, we experience it in these two ways, simultaneously.
What are as individuals, and as a group
This type of theatre space is known for the arch that separates the audience from the stage.
What is a proscenium?
This limitless element is the actor's greatest resource; it's fuel is observation.
What is imagination?
When opposing forces are at a crucial moment which affects the direction of the plot, the play has reached one of these conventions of playwriting.
What is a crisis?
How Krogstad discovers Nora's deception; always make sure to double check your work.
What is mis-dating the loan note?
Audiences can be involved in theatre in these two ways.
What are as observers and participants?
This is the term for the invisible separation between the actors and the audience; to address the audience directly is to "break" it.
What is the fourth wall?
These are two kinds of acting we partake in every day.
What are imitation and role play?
These are two characters in a play; one is the main character, the other opposes the main character.
What are the protagonist and antagonist?
This symbol of the play reveals the truth and often symbolizes change; quite a role for simple pen and paper.
What are letters?
Every person involved in a theatrical production--from pracititioner to audience member--needs this in order for theatre to be successful.
What is imagination?
This type of theatre space is small, intimate, and usually accommodates productions with a smaller budget; its seating arrangement is very flexible.
What is a blackbox theatre?
These two terms stand for what a character wants, and how that character gets what they want.
What are objective and action?
These are three limitations of theatre that playwrights use to put their characters under pressure; they might make you think of Aristotle.
What are space, time, and plot?
Nora and Torvald's marriage falls apart due in part to their belief in which societal convention; also a theme of the play.
What are gender roles?