Intro to Theatre pt.1
A story to be played out on the stage.
What is a play?
One who writes plays.
What is a playwright?
Preserving as a moving photograph.
What is a film?
True or False: The audience is an essential part of the theatre.
What is true?
This type of theatre space has the audience on only one side.
What is a proscenium?
A written copy of the dialogue that the actors will speak.
What is a script?
The conversation between actors on stage.
The writing or performing of plays as well as the formal study of the art form. Also a building in which plays are performed.
What is theatre?
The imaginary wall between the audience and actors on stage.
The fourth wall.
This type of theatre space has the audience on three sides.
What is a thrust?
Males or females playing character roles.
Who are actors?
A story in dialogue form to be acted out by actors before a live audience.
What is a play?
Repeated action that becomes a custom or ceremony.
What is a ritual?
This is where the audience sits during the show.
The House
his type of theatre has the audience on all four sides.
What is a theatre in the round?
The personality an actor portrays in a scene or play that is different from his or her own personality.
What is a character?
An actor's assumed behavior for the purpose of projecting a character to an audience.
What is acting?
The pattern of movement given to the actors from the director.
What is blocking?
Things that a director are responsible for.
What is the overall unity of a production and for coordinating the work of contributing artists?
This is the type of stage that was used in Ancient Greece.
What is an amphitheatre?
The term used to cover all parts of training or instruction in the field of theatre.
What is theatre arts?
The special literary style in which plays ware written.
What is dramatic structure?
The director’s vision, or a point of view that the director wants to highlight that is appropriate to the play.
What is A Directorial Concept?
A speech in which a character is alone onstage and speaks their inner monologue out loud.
What is a soliloquy?
What is the name of the proscenium theater we talked about in class?
The Majestic