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A person, male or female, who performs a role in a play or an entertainment.
What is actor?
The conversation between actors on stage.
What is dialogue?
The overall structure or shape of a work that frequently follows an established design. Forms may refer to a literary type (e.g., narrative form, short story form, dramatic form) or to patterns of meter, line, and rhymes (e.g., stanza form, verse form).
What is form?
A character's goal or intention.
What is objective?
The middle part of a plot consisting of complications and discoveries that create conflict.
What is rising action?
The planning and working out of the movements of actors on stage.
What is blocking?
Children's creation of scenes when they play pretend.
What is dramatic play?
Theatrical events in honor of the god Dionysus that occurred in Ancient Greece and included play competitions and a chorus of masked actors.
What is Greek theatre?
Acting without words through facial expression, gesture, and movement.
What is pantomime?
The written text of a play.
What is script?
The point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action.
What is climax?
The final few rehearsals just prior to opening night in which the show is run with full technical elements. Full costumes and makeup are worn.
What is dress rehearsals?
A comedy with exaggerated characterizations, abundant physical or visual humor, and, often, an improbable plot.
What is farce?
Any elaborate street presentation or a series of tableaux across a stage.
What is a pageant?
Memories of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures. It is used to help define a character in a certain situation
What is sense memory?
A reading of a script done by actors who have not previously reviewed the play.
What is cold-reading?
The theatre of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and often extended to the close of the theatres in 1640.
What is Elizabethan theatre?
Theatre that focuses on public performance in front of an audience and in which the final production is most important.
What is formal theatre?
The placement and delivery of volume, clarity, and distinctness of voice for communicating to an audience.
What is projection?
Theatrical movement beginning in the 1950s in which playwrights created works representing the universe as unknowable and humankind's existence as meaningless.
What is theatre of the absurd?
A professional form of theatrical improvisation, developed in Italy in the 1500s, featuring stock characters and standardized plots.
What is commedia dell'arte?
The final resolution of the conflict in a plot.
What is denouement design?
Cosmetics and sometimes hairstyles that an actor wears on stage to emphasize facial features, historical periods, characterizations, and so forth.
What is makeup?
Almost anything brought to life by human hands to create a performance. Types of puppets include rod, hand, and marionette.
What is puppetry?
Noncompetitive games designed to develop acting skills and popularized by Viola Spolin.
What is theatrical games?