Theatre Spaces
A stage with an arch or frame surrounding the stage opening in a box or picture stage.
What is a Proscenium?
The person responsible for the overall unity of a production.
What is the Director?
The theatre’s story teller.
What is the Playwright?
Information necessary for an understanding of the story but not covered by the action onstage.
What is Exposition?
Meaning type or category; in the theatre genre means the category into which a play falls.
What is Genre?
Stage entirely surrounded by the audience; also known as the circle stage or theatre-in-the-round.
What is an Arena?
A director that is loyal to his or her point of view and not that of the writer.
What is an Auteur Director?
Term: “To do” or “to act.”
What is Drama?
A parallel plot, a secondary plot to the major plot in an episodic play.
What is subplot?
Dramatic form involving serious actions of universal significance with important moral and philosophical implications, usually with an unhappy ending.
What is Tragedy?
Stage space that thrusts into the audience space; a stage surrounded on three sides by audience seating.
What is a Thrust?
The right hand of the director; the person who runs the show after the show opens and the director leaves.
The subject of theatre is always:
What is people?
Two dimensional, stereotypical characters.
What are Stock Characters?
A play that is light in tone, is concerned with issues that point out the excesses and folly of human behavior, has a happy ending, and is designed to amuse.
What is a Comedy?
Unique, specially adapted location other than the standard theatre.
What is a Created and Found?
The person who researches the world of the play.
What is a Dramaturg?
The person who the play is about; the driver of the story.
A form of comic theatre in which dialogue was improvised around a scenario involving a set of stock characters.
What is Commedia Dell'arte?
A play having tragic themes and noble characters but a happy ending.
What is a Tragicomedy?
A theatre space that is open, flexible, and adaptable, usually without fixed seating.
What is a Blackbox?
This is also known as the theme of the play.
What is the Spine of the Play?
The person or thing keeping the protagonist from what they want.
What is the Opposing Force?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
An attempt to present onstage a realistic example of daily life.
What is Realism?
A drama dealing with problems- particularly family problems – of middle class and lower-class characters.
What is a Domestic Drama?