Plays
Theatre Thinkers
Alliteration
Theatre Movements
"M" Theories
100

An anthology series presented by Obsidian Theatre and CBC Gem

"21 Black Futures"

100

He believed theatre was too far removed from reality and should be banned

Plato

100

A better alternative to "colourblind casting"

Colour Conscious Casting

100

Defamiliarizes audiences in order to provoke political thought

Epic Theatre

100

The "Well-____ Play" is a common dramatic form originated by Eugene Scribe

Made

200

"what?... who?... no!... she!..."

"Not I"

200

He believed the perfect tragedy ends in "catharsis"

Aristotle

200

Theatre that is created with the location in mind

Site-Specific

200

Characterized by repetitive language, characters that lack individuality, and a vague sense of time/place

Theatre of the Absurd

200

Theatre that knows it is theatre

Metatheatre


300

Stars the playwright's actual mother

"A Brimful of Asha"

300

She asked that only BIPOC critics review her show "bug"

Yolanda Bonnell

300

The person who introduced the verfremdungseffekt to theatre

Bertolt Brecht

300

Characterized by peripety, discovery, and suffering

Aristotelian Tragedy

300

A more inclusive alternative to "code switching" is "code-____"

meshing

400

A Canadian play about grief, bullying, and hypocrisy

"Late Company"

400

She said, "the artist becomes the creator of the future through the violent act of articulation"

Anne Bogart

400

Toronto Theatre founded in 1979

Buddies in Bad Times

400

Emphasizes the internal objectives of characters

Psychological Realism

400

Another word for imitation

Mimesis

500

The playwright of this work called it "webtheatre"

"rhiannaboi95"

500

He used theatre as a metaphor to describe social interactions

Erving Goffman

500

Traditional understandings of theatre claim it requires liveness, ephemerality, and ______

Physical Presence

500

Characterized by sets that recreate real environments meticulously

Naturalism

500

A technique used in Stanislavski's system of acting

Magic-If

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