Positioning
Type of Theater
Types of Characters
Parts of a story
Jobs in Theatre
100

The center of the acting area.

What is center stage?

100

Theatre that focuses on public performance in front of an audience and in which the final production is most important.

What is formal theater?

100

The personality or part an actor recreates.

What is a charecter?

100

Detailed information revealing the facts of a plot.

What is exposition?

100

A person who writes plays.

What is a Play-write?

200

The stage area toward the audience.

What is down stage?

200

 The theatre of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and often extended to the close of the theatres in 1640.

What is Elizabethan Theatre?

200

The main character of a play and the character with whom the audience identifies most strongly.

What is a protagonist?

200

The middle part of a plot consisting of complications and discoveries that create conflict.

What is a rising action?

200

A person, male or female, who performs a role in a play or an entertainment.

What is an Actor?

300

The left side of the stage from the perspective of an actor facing the audience.

What is stage left?

300

Theatrical events in honor of the god Dionysus that occurred in Ancient Greece and included play competitions and a chorus of masked actors.

What is Greek Theatre?

300

A person, a situation, or the protagonist's own inner conflict in opposition to his or her goals.

What is the antagoist?

300

The point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action.

What is the climax?

300

The person who oversees the entire process of staging a production.

What is a director?

400

The right side of the stage from the perspective of an actor facing the audience.

What is stage right?

400

 One of the traditional forms of Japanese theatre in which masked male actors use highly stylized dance and poetry to tell stories.

What is Noh?

400

An ancient art form based on pantomime in which conventionalized gestures are used to express ideas rather than represent actions; also, a performer of...

What is a mime?

400

The opposition of persons or forces giving rise to dramatic action in a play.

What is a conflict?

400

The backstage technical crew responsible for running the show.

What is a stage crew?

500

Used as a noun, the stage area away from the audience; used as a verb, to steal the focus of a scene.

What is upstage?

500

Theatrical movement of the early 1920s and 1930 characterized by the use of such artificial devices as cartoons, posters, and film sequences distancing the audience from theatrical illusion and allowing focus on the play's message.

What is epic theatre?

500

Established characters, such as young lovers, neighborhood busybodies, sneaky villains, and overprotective fathers, who are immediately recognizable by an audience.

What are stock characters?

500

The interrelated conditions in which a play exists or occurs.

What is the context

500

The director's liaison backstage during rehearsal and performance.

What is a stage manager?

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