Name That Play!
In this ten-minute play, Sarah believes she is turning into an endangered bird.
A Rare Bird, by Bella Poynton.
This genre generally moves from threat to disaster, with the central character's fortunes falling.
Tragedy
This equation describes theatre as a performer, an idea, and an audience divided over what?
Time
This term describes the meaning implied beneath a character's literal words.
Subtext
This production element creates a visual world for the action and provides space for physical action.
Scenery
This Sophocles tragedy follows a king determined to discover the truth about the plague affecting his city.
Oedipus Tyrannus
This style emphasizes subjective experience, internal thoughts, and invisible emotional realities.
Expressionism
This reading method asks you to consider the significance of the title, characters, setting, and playwright before reading.
How to Read a Play
This is a clever statement that inverts a traditional platitude or expectation.
Epigram
This is the imaginary wall that separates actors from the audience.
The fourth wall
This Oscar Wilde comedy satirizes upper-class respectability, marriage, and false identities.
The Importance of Being Earnest
This comedic form exaggerates, mocks, exposes, or parodies recognizable social behaviors.
Satire
Elinor Fuchs uses this metaphor to encourage us to examine a play's entire dramatic world.
Planet
This character opposes the central character's objective or point of view.
Main Oppositional Character (MOC)
This stage configuration places the audience on one side of the stage, often separated by an arch.
Proscenium stage
This Sophie Treadwell play uses expressionism to reveal a woman's oppressive experience of modern life.
Machinal
In this acting style, the actor embodies a character realistically and generally preserves the illusion of reality.
Representational acting
Barbara Clayton identifies seven of these, including scenery, acting, lighting, sound, and audience.
The elements of theatrical production
This character differs sharply from the central character and reveals the central character's qualities.
Foil
This structure builds toward a climax with relatively few locations, characters, and events.
Climactic structure
This Javaad Alipoor production investigates the murder of Iranian pop star Fereydoun Farrokhzad through theatre, documentary, podcast, and multimedia.
Things Hidden Since the End of the World
This theatrical form makes the performance itself central, often using direct address, multimedia, and a disrupted fourth wall.
Postdramatic theatre
Aristotle's six elements are plot, character, thought, language, music, and this final element: what we see.
Spectacle
In tragedy, this describes the purging of pity and fear through drama, ideally producing emotional renewal.
Catharsis
This form of theatre draws attention to the fact that an audience is watching performers create a theatrical world.
Metatheatre