General
Theatre is everywhere. Name three examples of where you can experience theatre outside of the traditional stage.
Musical performances, amusement parks, museums, religious events, Las Vegas, sporting events, digital media, cosplay, and virtual reality.
What is the role of the critic, blogger, and reviewer?
Assists audience understanding the performance.
What is a traditional director?
A director who focuses on faithfully translating the playwright's original script and intentions to the stage without radically altering the text, time period, or core meaning.
What is a Proscenium theatre space?
What we typically see for productions, a Proscenium is set up like a picture frame.
What is the main plot of "Trifles"?
Drama about the murder of farmer John Wright and the secret investigation conducted by the women in his kitchen while their husbands search for a motive.
Name three of the variety of venues theatre uses today.
Commercial theatre, nonprofit professional theatre, college and university theatre, amateur theatre, and children’s theatre.
What are the three categories of art?
Literary, visual, and performing
What is a postmodern director?
Instead of acting as a traditional storyteller who guides an audience toward a single, clear message, a postmodern director acts as a deconstructor, provocateur, and architect of complex meaning.
What is an arena theatre space?
Audience surrounds all sides of the stage.
What are the two basic forms of structure?
Episodic and climactic.
Name at least 4/6 types of theatre that are available today.
Classic, traditional, experimental, avant-garde, diverse, and global.
The visual arts exist primarily in space; ___ exists in time rather than space, and ___ (along with dance and opera) exists in both time and space.
music, theatre
What is an auteur director?
A director whose personal artistic vision, distinct style, and recurring themes run consistently through all of their plays. Ex: Specific lighting styles, shots, colours, etc.
What is an alley theatre space?
Performance area is a narrow, central space with the audience seated predominantly on two opposing sides facing each other.
What is the difference between plot and story?
The plot is the chronological or causal sequence of events in a narrative (the "what happens"), while the story is the broader experience that includes the plot along with character growth, emotional stakes, settings, and themes
Who and X amount of years ago established tragedy and comedy?
2500 years ago by the Greeks
There are six main elements of theatre.
Audience, performer, script, director, theatre space, and design elements.
What do producers of stage productions do?
Oversee all non-artistic, financial, and logistical operations required to bring a theatrical production from an initial idea to the stage.
What is a thrust theatre space?
Stage extends (“thrusts”) outward into the auditorium so that the audience surrounds it on three sides.
What are the four types of drama?
Tragedy, heroic drama, bourgeois (domestic) drama, and melodrama.
How many community theatres are in the USA?
7000
Important characteristics of the performing arts include the need for three things.
Interpreters, the need for a live audience, and that they are ephemeral.
What are the four designers of the production the director is responsible of coordinating?
Scene, costume, lighting, and sound designers.
Name the seven types of theatre spaces.
Proscenium, arena, found space, outdoor, thrust, alley, and black box.
What are the six aspects of a play that a playwright must think about?
Subject, focus, purpose, dramatic structure, characters, and establishing point of view.