Stage Left
The written dialogue description and directions provided by the playwright.
What is Script
Any forms of a verb that show the times of its action or state of being.
What is Tense?
Box office and Lobby
What is Front of House?
The primary material from which plots are created; incidents are developed through speech, behavior of dramatic personages.
What is Character?
The opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in a drama or fiction.
What is Conflict?
The emotional values and cognitive meanings derived from interpreting a work of art the symbolic nature of art.
What is Aesthetic Qualities
The core of a theatre piece the sense of forward movement created by the sense of time and the physical and psychological motivations of characters.
What is action?
The characteristic and expected social behavior of an individual in a given position.
What is Role?
The act of indicating beforehand.
What is Foreshadowing?
The personal understanding of dramatic/artistic intentions and actions and their social and personal significance, selected and organized from the aural, oral, and visual symbols of a dramatic production.
What is Constructed Meaning?
Highest point of tension before conclusion.
What is Climax?
A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point in the action.
An open space at floor level in the middle of an auditorium.
What is Arena?
Selections made by theatre artists about situation, action, direction, and design in order to convey meaning.
What is Artistic Choices?
Means of telling of stories by way of stage, film, television, radio, or computer discs.
All the elements of the setting and their arrangement.
What is Floor Plan?
The basis of dramatic activity and performance; a written script or an agreed-upon structure and content for an improvisation.
What is text?
A play that is serious and ends unhappily. The protagonist in a tragedy frequently faces an ethical choice or a choice about moral issue.
What is Tragedy?
Means of communication characterized by the use of technology.
What is Electronic Media?
The dynamic interaction and harmonious blending of the efforts of the many artists involved in the dramatic activity of theatrical production.
What is Ensemble?
One who struggles for mastery with another an opponent in a contest of any kind.
What is Antagonist?
The art of composing, writing, acting, or producing plays; a literary composition intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions exhibited through action and dialogue, designed for theatrical performance.
What is Drama?
What is Music?
A dramatic form and production techniques considered of significance in earlier times, in any culture or historical period.
What is Classical?
The playwright's primary means of expression.
What is Diction?