The Audience
This is the most important component of theatre; without it, it's just a bunch of people playing around onstage.
What is the audience?
This type of theatre has the audience on just one side.
What is a proscenium?
This person created the first acting technique, and is considered the father of modern-day acting.
Who is Stanislavski?
Physical or psychological elements that stand in a character's way.
What are obstacles?
This symbol of the play reveals the truth and often symbolizes change; quite a role for simple pen and paper.
What are letters?
Theatre is always about this subject; one of the reasons it's so compelling.
What are people?
This type of theatre has the audience on three sides.
What is a thrust?
This element is the hardest to master; it brings you into the circumstances of the play.
What is concentration?
This is the arrangement of events, or the selection and order of scenes of the play.
What is the plot?
This idea becomes a theme of the play when Nora realizes she's never truly had a sense of it.
What is freedom?
This is the subconscious expectation set up by the theatre's environment.
What is psychological priming?
This type of theatre has the audience on all four sides.
What is an arena?
The actors greatest resource; the fuel for it is observation.
What is imagination?
The main character of a play, and the character who opposes them.
What are the protagonist and antagonist?
At a masquerade ball, Nora performs this dance, a symbol of deceit and agitation.
What is the tarantella?
The physical or psychological barrier between the audience and the performers, necessary for the audience to enjoy the show.
What is aesthetic distance?
This type of theatre is smaller, more intimate, and has flexible seating.
What is a blackbox?
These elements stand for what a character wants, and how they get what they want; they always go hand in hand.
What are objective and action?
When opposing forces are at a crucial moment which affects the direction of the plot, the play has reached one of these conventions of playwriting.
What is a crisis?
When compared between Nora and Torvald, and Christine and Krogstad, this connection becomes a theme of A Doll's House.
What is marriage, or relationships
This is required by both the audience and the actors; without it, theatre can't happen.
What is imagination?
This is the invisible barrier between the actors and the audience that can be broken.
What is the fourth wall?
These are two kinds of daily acting.
What are imitation and roleplay?
These are three limitations of theatre that playwrights use to put their characters under pressure; they might make you think of Aristotle.
What are space, time, and plot?
Nora and Torvald's marriage falls apart due in part to their belief in which societal convention; also a theme of the play.
What are gender roles?