Basic
A person's way of walking
What is gait?
This stock character has the lowest status among all characters.
Who is Zanni?
Theatre for Development and Playback Theatre are examples of this type of theatre.
What is Applied Theatre?
A theatre that requires a group of people create a new performance without an existing script.
What is Devised Theatre?
This character is a father who loves money.
Who is Pantalone?
Time, place, and environment in which a story unfolds
What is setting (of the scene)?
Repeated jokes used in Commedia Dell'arte
What are Lazzi?
Their goal is to find new solutions of the scene to change the world.
Who are Spect-actors?
The thing to start a devising process.
What is a stimulus?
It starts with one actor being seated on an imaginary bench, embodying a neutral role .
What is Park Bench?
The highest point of conflict
What is Climax?
They have fixed social status, personalities, plot functions, masks, and physicality.
What are stock characters of Commedia Dell'arte?
Their goal is to hold other people back, to provide real-life challenges
Who are the Actors in Forum Theatre?
They are challenges preventing a character from achieve their goal.
What are obstacles?
One actor sit in the center while others ask them questions. The actor in the center must respond as the character would.
What is Hotseating?
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
What is the Classic Plot Structure?
This term is used to call the old, merchant-type characters.
What is Vecchi?
No magical solution is allowed.
What is the rule for solution in Forum theatre?
Observe & Listen, add details, do not block.
What are the rules of improvisation?
He said "the aim of the forum is not to win, but to learn and to train".
Who is Augusto Boal?
Looking down from the sky / ceiling to see everything below
What is bird's eye view?
He has the highest status of the servants. He is normally portrayed as a store owner, innkeeper, or a valet. He is witty, humorous, and deceitful.
Who is Brighella?
The internal or external struggle between opposing forces or ideas.
What is a conflict?
This is what a character wants in a scene or throughout the play.
What is an objective?
This character's plot function is being the "Catalyst for Conflict".
Who is the Witch?