Vocab
This term describes a building where plays are presented.
What is a theater?
There are this many main types of stages discussed.
What are three?
Stage directions are from this person's viewpoint.
Who is the actor?
This person writes plays.
Who is the playwright?
This is the art or profession of producing plays.
What is theatre?
This imaginary wall separates the audience from the action.
What is the fourth wall?
The three stage types are...
What are Proscenium, Thrust, and Arena?
These provide instructions to performers and readers of a script.
What are stage directions?
This person works with actors before the performance.
Who is the director?
These are the five genres of plays discussed in class.
What are comedy, tragedy, tragicomedy, melodrama, and musicals?
Medieval church performances helped popularize these traveling performance platforms.
What are pageant wagons?
This stage type has audience seating on three sides.
What is a thrust stage?
Stage directions are often written in this text style.
What are italics?
These people perform the story on stage.
Who are actors/performers?
A play is typically broken down into these parts.
What are acts and scenes?
This feature allows scenery to be raised and lowered above a stage.
What is a fly system?
This stage type is also called theatre in the round.
What is an arena stage?
Directors, technicians, and performers use stage directions for this purpose.
What is communication/common language?
This group creates set, costumes, lighting, and sound concepts
Who are the designers?
Actors perform a play in this location.
What is a stage?
This stage style originated as an effort to bring intimacy back between performers and audience and is often called "theatre in the round."
What is an Arena Stage?
This stage type is the most common and features an invisible fourth wall.
What is a proscenium stage?
Name two warm-up activities performers should do before rehearsal.
What are stretching, tongue twisters, or singing?
Everyone involved in a production must share this
What is a cohesive vision?
Unlike movies, directors of live plays cannot do these after mistakes happen.
What are retakes?