Defintion
What is acting space behind the proscenium arch?
What is the stage?
Who is the 'Father of Realism'?
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
What is audience seating area?
What is the house?
Who wrote the Origin of Species?
Who is Charles Darwin?
List three absurdist playwrights?
Who is..
Samuel Beckett
Eugene Ionesco
Harold Pinter
Jean-Paul Sartre
What are the the areas directly to the side of the stage?
What are the wings?
Whose main influence is in Epic Theatre?
Who is Bertolt Brecht?
What are set of seats above the orchestra called?
Who wrote the Seagull?
Who is Anton Chekov?
List three expressionist playwrights?
Who is...
August Strindberg
Elmer Rice
Eugene O'Neill
What is the area above the stage that allows scenery to be flown in?
What is the fly loft?
Who was the one of the earliest and most famous of the commedia dell’arte companies?
Who was iGelosi?
What is the seating area that is a smaller balcony between the orchestra and balcony called?
What is the mezzanine?
Who was the human theorist that brought forth ideas of the human conscience as well as self preservation and procreation?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
List the four main theatre spaces?
What is...
Proscenium
Thrust
Arena
Alley
Black Box
Found Space
What is any work that is experimental, innovative, or unconventional?
What is Avant-Garde?
Who were the two types society that commedia dell'arte influenced by?
Who were scholarly society and street performers?
What is the picture frame through which the audience watch the show called?
What is the proscenium arch?
Which playwright put forth the ideas of the Theory of the Grotesque?
Who is Victor Hugo?
List the four main changing influences of Realism?
What/Who are...
Photography
Lighting
Sigmund Freud
Charles Darwin
What is the seats in their own sections for just a few people (This started as a VIP section, but realized the view is not great!)?
What are box seats?
Who founded the Moscow Art Theatre?
Who are Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Dranchenko.
What is acting space in front of the proscenium arch?
What is the apron?
Who wrote Pygmalion (My Fair Lady)?
Who is George Bernard Shaw?
List the four theatres that were producing realism and naturalism.
Who are...
Theatre Libre -Free Theatre
Freie Buhne- Free Stage
The English Independent Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre