You and Theatre/Intro to Theatre
Additional information provided by the playwright to give the actors instructions on how to feel or what to do when certain lines are spoken. These directions, usually in italics, are set apart from the dialogue by parenthesis.
What are Stage Directions?
The basic idea or purpose of the play. It ties together all the characters and events
What is Theme?
The power of seeing and taking notice.
What is Observation?
The areas behind the stage.
What is Backstage?
Non scripted and spontaneous.
What is Improvisational?
The conversation between actors on the stage.
What is Dialogue?
A short break in the action of the play for the audience.
What is an Intermission?
The power to create ideas and pictures in our minds.
What is Imagination?
Detailed information revealing the facts of the plot.
What is Exposition?
Qualities relating to a character’s outwardly visible traits.
What is External Characteristics?
An actors assumed behavior for the purpose of projecting a character to an audience.
What is Acting?
Following a performance, the appearance of the actors onstage to acknowledge the appreciation of the audience and to take a bow.
What is a Curtain Call?
Assessment of strengths and weaknesses.
What is Evaluation?
Nine to fifteen divisions of the stage floor, used by directors when moving actors or placing furniture or scenery.
What are Acting Areas?
A playing/acting process to interpret and share a story by using improvisation rather than scripts.
What is Story Dramatization?
Mental comments and opinions we repeat to ourselves constantly.
What is Self-Talk
Printed sheet of paper or booklet that provides information about the production.
What is a Program?
Techniques and skills that we use to express ourselves emotionally, intellectually, socially, and physically.
What is Personal Resources?
A stage constructed so the audience can sit on all sides; also known as the “theatre- in- the-round”.
What is Arena Stage?
Unconscious habits or peculiarities.
What are Mannerisms?
Two or more people taking a step-by-step course of action that takes place over a period of time and is aimed at achieving goals.
What is Group Process?
Communication that can reach large audiences.
What is Mass Media?
Insight into our world of images, sound, color, patterns, forms, and movements.
What is Aesthetic Perception?
An exaggerated, fast-moving play in which action is more important than characterization. The “good guys” win and the “bad guys” are punished.
What is Melodrama?
Theatre that focuses on a performance in front of an audience as the important final product.
What is Formal Drama?