Vocab
A character's plans or procedures to get desired results.
What are Tactics?
The brightest point of illumination from a single lighting instrument.
What is a hot spot?
He invented method acting.
Who is Stanislavski?
A type of theatre which usually has dreamlike sets and nonsensical dialogue.
What is Surrealism?
Amplifying the range of any sound through the cavities of the mouth.
What is projection?
Movement a performer takes to adjust the movement of another actor.
What is a counter cross?
A stage that is slanted, either to increase visibility or to produce false perspective.
What is a Raked Stage?
Known as the “father of realism”.
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
A type of theatre which usually has dreamlike sets and nonsensical dialogue.
What is Theatre of the Absurd?
The fee that must be paid when using a copyrighted work.
What are royalties?
A character’s thoughts spoken aloud directly to the audience, but not heard by the other characters on stage.
What is an Aside?
A technical drawing that indicates the position of scenery and set props on stage.
What is a Floor Plan/Ground Plan?
He wrote My Children! My Africa!
Who is Athol Fugard?
In this form of theatre, actors wear a base of white make up highlighted by stylized bright colors.
What is Kabuki Theatre?
This replaces the sound of an actual punch during stage combat.
What is a knap?
Verse that does not follow a fixed pattern, such as iambic pentameter.
What is a Free Verse?
A metal pattern that, when placed inside an
ellipsoidal spotlight, throws a shadow
pattern on the stage
What is a Gobo?
This playwright wrote a play for every decade of the 20th century.
Who is August Wilson?
A visually violent form of theatre created by Antonin Artaud.
What is Theatre of Cruelty?
This is located at the furthest point downstage on a proscenium stage.
What is the apron?
The young, innocent, female character. (usually the love interest.)
What is the Ingénue?
A long metal pipe from which lighting fixtures, theatrical scenery, and theater drapes and stage curtains may be hung.
What is a Batten?
He wrote Saint Joan
A type of theatre created to keep the audience from becoming emotionally attached to the characters.
What is Epic Theatre?
The quality of voice, involving tone and resonance.
What is timbre?