You and Theatre/Intro to Theatre
Belief in your worth and abilities as a person.
What is Self Confidence?
Appropriate audience behavior at a theatrical event.
What is Audience Etiquette?
Strong feelings, such as joy, fear, hate, and happiness.
What are emotions?
(Actor’s) Left
What is Stage Left?
A playing/acting process to interpret and share a story by using improvisation rather than scripts.
What is Story Dramatization?
The personality an actor portrays in a scene or play that is different from his or her own personality.
What are Characters?
Turning out all the stage lights at one time.
What is Blackout?
A position from which we perceive (understand) an object, person, or place.
What is Point Of View?
A four-sided stage built like a box with one side cut away, enabling the audience to view the play as if it were in a picture frame.
What is a Proscenium Stage?
Handheld items that are used in a performance to make a scene or play more believable.
What are Props?
Actions that are different from the norm.
What are risks?
Pretend that what is happening onstage is real.
What is Suspend Belief?
The ability to use sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste to become conscious of the environment.
What is Sensory Awareness?
The character opposing the protagonist.
What is the Antagonist?
Developing and portraying a personality through thought, action, dialogue, costuming, and makeup.
What is Characterization?
A written copy of the dialogue that the actors will speak.
What is a script?
Helpful comments and opinions that are expressed in a positive way.
What is Constructive Criticism?
The act of imagining and seeing pictures in the mind.
What is visualizing?
A play that deals with a serious situation in a serious way. The protagonist dies or is defeated at the end of the play.
What is Tragedy?
A familiar character identified by an oversimplified pattern of behavior that typically labels the character as being part of a group of people.
What is a Stereotypical Character?
The act of working together, getting along, and sharing responsibility.
What is Cooperation?
Established techniques, practices, or devices unique to theatrical productions.
What is Theatre Conventions?
Techniques and skills that we use to express ourselves emotionally, intellectually, socially, and physically.
What are Personal Resources?
All visual elements of production, such as scenery, properties, lighting, costumes, makeup, stage movement, and dance.
What is Spectacle?
An improvisational, process-centered, form of theatre in which participants are guided by a leader to imagine, enact, and reflect on human experiences.
What is Creative Drama?