Direction
This refers to actions, performers, or elements visible to the audience during a performance.
What is onstage?
A practice that is generally accepted in place of realistic depiction.
What is conventions?
This encompasses all behind-the-scenes, non-acting elements of a theatrical production, including set construction, lighting, sound, costumes, and rigging. It is also called technical theatre.
What is stagecraft?
The primary, ornate curtain hanging directly at the front of a theatrical stage, separating the stage from the audience.
What is a grand drape?
This color can arouse these emotions: passionate, angry, aggressive
What is red?
The areas of the stage that are to the actor’s left and right.
What is stage left and stage right?
This is the constructed environment on stage that creates the world of the play.
What is a set?
The front face of a building, especially the decorative or “public” side; in theatre, it can also mean a flat scenic piece that looks like a building front but is only a shallow, false front.
What is Facade?
The area where the audience sits.
What is the house?
This color can arouse these emotions: natural, youthfu, jealous
What is green?
Stage right is the performer’s right and the audiences'...
What is left?
How the set reflects or influences characters’ personalities and emotions (e.g., cluttered, oppressive, whimsical).
What is psychological environment?
The ancient Greek word for a theatrical devices consisting of revolving triangular prisms, each side bearing a different painted scene
What is a periaktoi?
The areas just off stage left or stage right, not seen by the audience.
What are the wings?
This color can arouse these emotions: childlike, romantic, feminine.
What is pink?
The area of the stage that’s farthest away from the audience. When an actor moves here it means that they move away from the audience.
What is upstage?
By examining the physical surroundings, such as furniture, props, and overall spatial layout, audiences can immediately identify a character's....
What is environment and social status?
The French word for "fool the eye". An art technique using realistic imagery to create optical illusions of three-dimensional space on two-dimensional surfaces.
What is Trompe- l'oeil?
A long metal pipe suspended above a theatre stage used to hang lighting fixtures, scenery, and curtains.
What is a batten?
This color can arouse these emotions: royal, mystic
What is purple?
The area of the stage that’s closer to the audience. When an actor moves here it means that they move closer to the audience.
What is downstage?
Sets take into account these TWO concepts by showing historical period, seasons of the years, socioeconomic situations, and even climate and geographical conditions.
What is time and setting
The use of strong contrasts between light and shadow to model form and create a dramatic sense of depth and volume in painting, drawing, or stage lighting.
What is Chiaroscuro?
Essential theatrical masking drapes used to frame the stage, mask backstage wings, and hide technical equipment
What is borders and legs?
This color can arouse these emotions: happy, childlike, cowardly, and ill
what is yellow?