Vocabulary
Genre
Plays/Musicals
Parts of a theater
Potpourri
100
a moment of blocking or dialogue that signals another actor to do something.
What is a cue.
100
Comedy which pokes fun at social convention.
What is Comedy of Manners?
100
Genre of "Grease"
What is Musical Theater.
100
Space where the audience sits
What is the house?
100
Mr. Callahan's favorite color.
What is Cerulean?
200
The material used to "skin" a flat.
What is muslin or plywood?
200
genre that focuses on a tragic hero and their flaw.
What is tragedy?
200
Genre of Oedipus Rex.
What is Greek?
200
area of the stage closest to the audience
What is downstage?
200
kind of cookies Anthony's mom was supposed to make for us.
What is/are root beer cookies?
300
Any area not seen by the audience.
What is backstage?
300
Physical comedy like the three stooges.
What is low comedy?
300
Genre of "The Glass Menagerie"
What is Contemporary Theater- post 1949
300
the bar that holds the scoops.
What is a light bar?
300
name of the protagonist in the play we read in January.
What is "Bang, Bang, you're dead"
400
The curved roof over the plaster line.
What is a proscenium arch?
400
theater which comments on social issues or problems.
What is a social drama?
400
genre of Shakespeare's "Othello"
What is Tragedy?
400
area where set pieces are stored during a performance.
What is/are the wings?
400
number of geese in a gaggle.
What is se7en- don't look in the box!!
500
The main curtain which is fire-retardant.
What is the grand drape?
500
genre characterized by a hero and heroine who are well-liked and a villain who is despised.
What is Sentimental Comedy?
500
genre of "The importance of being earnest"
What is Comedy of Manners?
500
area where light and sound technology is run during a performance.
What is the booth?
500
Style in which many of Shakespeare's plays are written.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
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