Pantomime & Artistic Expression
The total artistic experience of drama- classes, audience, building, acting, directing, etc.
What is Theatre Arts?
The group of performers that let us into the character's inner thoughts and provide background information.
What is the Greek Chorus
The first step in designing technical elements for a play.
What is research?
The turning point. The most intense, exciting, or important point of the story. Usually the main character comes face to face with a conflict.
What is the climax?
What your character wants or needs at this moment in the play.
What is objective?
Tools used for pantomime
What are Facial Expressions, Gestures, Body Movement?
Credited with being first playwright and first actor to step out from the chorus.
Who is Thespis?
Production Elements that can help set the mood for a play.
What is lighting, sound, set.
Any struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
What your character is going to do to get what they want.
What is action?
Appropriate audience behavior at an event.
What is Audience Etiquette?
One of most well-known and most performed playwrights worldwide through modern times.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Most common type of stage. Its primary feature is the "picture frame" placed around the front of the playing area of an end stage.
What is a proscenium?
A series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict.
What is plot?
A character’s use of one action (or tactic) to achieve their current objective.
What is a beat?
The rules of pantomime
What is...
This theatrical era's innovations included the use of perspective, the proscenium stage, and the use of painted scenery and flats.
What is Renaissance Theatre?
The person in charge of interpreting the production and staging the play.
What is the director?
Characteristics of good dialogue
What are Realism, Balance, & Purpose?
Why your character does or says what they do. Why your character needs or wants this.
What is motivation?
Stage Directions
What is...
-Stage Right/Left
-Upstage/Downstage
Wrote The Poetics, which set standards for structure of plays and is the first known dramatic theory.
Who is Aristotle?
The person responsible for the entire production, including obtaining financial backing, paying the bills, and hiring the director and entire staff.
What is the producer?
Main portion of the story. The actions that lead up to the climax.
What is exposition?
The environmental and situational conditions of the character’s world that influence the character, such as who they are or the setting of the scene.
What are given circumstances?