Play
This is a perceived action.
What is a play?
This is the time for an actor to experiment and make discoveries.
What are rehearsals?
This term comes from a Greek term meaning "seeing place".
What is "theatron"?
These are the two fundamental notions/approaches of acting.
What are internal and external?
This is the name for a person who constructs and composes a play as a wheelwright makes a wheel.
Who is a playwright?
This is background information, presented within the play.
What is "exposition"?
This is the director's central idea which focuses his or her interpretation.
What is the concept?
This term comes from the Greek "dran", which means "seeing place".
What is "drama"?
This is the unspoken agreements between the audience and the actor, which includes a whole set of traditional understandings surrounding the theatrical event.
What is convention?
This is the term used for the technical skills needed for professional acting, focusing primarily on the voice and body.
What is virtuoso?
This is the name for the visual aspect of the play.
What is spectacle?
This is the director's determination of the most important images, ideas, and emotions that will give the production meaning, but do not directly come from the text.
What is a high concept?
The playwright's skill at condensing a story that may pans many days or years of chronological time into a theatrical time frame is called this.
What is compression?
This is the mode of performance acknowledges the audience—as in the case of the nightclub performer who sings, dances, jokes, and responds overtly to applause.
What is the presentational mode?
This is the core element of every play.
What is the theme?
This is the name for the unraveling or untying of the complexities of a plot.
What is denouement?
This did not exist until the nineteenth century in theatre.
What is a director/stand-alone director/independent director?
The role of teacher-director reached its historical pinnacle of influence during these two classical periods of theatre.
What is the ancient Greek period and heightened Realism period?
This is the type of performing that asks the actor to experience the life of the character.
What is internal acting?
These are the two fundamental tools with which the playwright works.
What are the dialogue and physical action?
These ae plot, character, theme, diction, music, and spectacle.
What are Aristotle's 6 elements of drama?
This person is considered the first modern theatre director.
Who was Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen?
These are the three stages of an actor's routine.
What are audition, rehearsal, and performance?
This is a realistic style of acting derived from the Russian actor-director Konstantin Stanislavsky's self-proclaimed system and made popular by Lee Strasberg in New York.
What is The Method?
A play possesses this if it deals with an issue of serious and lasting significance in humanity's spiritual or intellectual life beyond the mere attempt to imitate profundity.
What is gravity?