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This type of theatre does not rely on professional artists to produce their work.
What is Community Theatre?
In response to the new realistic drama of the late nineteenth century, this person devised a system to teach performers how to achieve the necessary believability.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavsky?
The technical term for revelation of background material in a play.
What is Exposition?
In this theatrical form, Antonin Artaud argued it should be a sensory experience which should bombard the audience visually and aurally
What is Theatre of Cruelty?
In this type of tragedy, the language used in the play is prose, not poetry.
What is Modern Tragedy?
"Breaking the fourth wall" is easiest on this type of stage.
What is Proscenium?
When a play is performed as it will be before the public, complete with all technical production elements including lighting, sound and costumes, but without an audience present.
What is a dress rehearsal?
This character type often serves as a kind of counterpoint between themselves as outside the play and those characters within the central action.
What is a Narrator?
This theatrical form championed by Bertolt Brecht wanted to serve a socio-political message by reminding audience members that they were in the theatre.
What is Epic Theatre?
Limited time, limited space, and strongly opposed forces are all characteristics of this.
What is Dramatic Structure?
Developed by the Greeks, the_________ was also the type of theatre space used during Shakespeare's time.
What is Thrust stage?
The arrangement and movements of performers relative to each other and to the stage space is called this.
What is Blocking?
She's the main representative character in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House' who to this day serves as a symbol of the modern woman.
Who is Nora Helmer?
These avant-garde productions were created by painters and sculptors to be an extension of everyday life and eliminate the boundary between performers and audience
What are Happenings?
The sun, candles and oil lamps, gaslight, limelight, incandescent lights, LEDs are the chronological order of this aspect of Theatrical design.
What is Lighting?
This person is responsible for allocating all the necessary money to create theatre.
Who is The Producer?
The degree of separation between the object or event that an artist creates and the audience that observes it.
What is Aesthetic Distance?
In this type of Tragedy, the hero or heroine is a person of social stature: a king, a queen, a general, a nobleman, etc.
What is Traditional Tragedy?
When we say that one thing is like another, it is called a simile; when we say one thing is another, that is called this.
What is a Metaphor?
Line, shape, and silhouette are especially important to this aspect of Theatrical design.
What is Costume Design?
The design style for a_________ play may have exaggerated scenery and outrageous colors to match the exaggerated nature of the acting. And sometimes, a lot of doors.
What is Farce?
An outside force or new twist in the plot introduced at an opportune moment.
What is a Complication?
This dramatic form requires a temporary suspension of the natural laws of probability and logic to create humor.
What is Comedy?
He is the most frequently produced playwright in the United States today.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This African-American playwright wrote a play for each decade of the 20th century focuses on the Black experience in America.
Who is August Wilson?