History tings:
APO & Theatre
Bidnuss side of theatre
ft. the audience
Da Actor and Directing tools
Much ado about Theatre
Extra tings
100

What is APO's flower, colors, and motto?

carnation, amber anf moonlight blue, "seek a life useful"

100

Whats a royalty?

Royalty is a fee that pays the playwright for their creativity and hard work.

100

Another name for a Actor in roman culture

Histrione

100

Whats a Theatron?

"viewing place"; where the spectators sat.

100

How do you build a flat?

Rails: Width of the flat

Stile:  side or vertical piece within a flat, which sits between the rails of the flat

Toggle – a support at the middle of a flat, which sits between the stiles.

200

When was the national constitution drawn up?

August 12, 1925

200

what do copyright do?

copyright protection gives artists the right to reproduce, publish, display, perform, distribute copies, and create derivative works from the art they create

200

the precise staging of actors in order to facilitate the performance of a play, ballet, film or opera

Blocking

200

Describe a pageant wagon

a wheeled vehicle used in the processional staging of medieval vernacular cycle plays.

200

a person who writes plays 

A Dramatist (basically a playwright)

300

Whats the deal with Restoration and Theatre?

The term “restoration” in Restoration drama refers to the return of the monarchy to England after something more than a decade of Puritan rule.

Sometimes they be comedies

300

Who is Tams-witmark?

Tams-Witmark is an American company that provides professional and amateur theaters license to Broadway musical scripts and scores.

300

what be Genre?

The genre of a performance refers to the type of story being told, and the style refers to how the work is presented on stage. A genre or style can help to give performers a framework to shape the devised work.

300

 an immersive 360-degree painted environment, often including a three-dimensional faux terrain in the foreground of the painting to enhance the illusion of depth and simulated reality.

Panoram

300

To turn off the lights where the audience sits

"Kill the House"

400

What is "happenings"

event that combined elements of painting, poetry, music, dance, and theatre and staged them as a live action.

400

What is empathy?

While watching characters interact within a story, the audience makes connections between themselves and the characters.

400

a method of acting with the four elements: objective, obstacle, stakes, and tactics.

Stanislaviski

400

 a dramatic work in which events, plot, and characters are sensationalized to elicit strong emotional reactions from the audience. In literature, theatre, and cinema,

Melodrama

400

Six Elements of Design

Line, shape, form, space, texture, color. 

500

What are the 6 elements of theatre and who created them?

Plot, character, thought, diction, spectacle, music; Aristotle

500

What be Aesthetic Distance?

a kind of psychological gap between what the audience perceives as artwork and what they take to be reality.

500

Name 6 attributes of a good actor:

Creativity. ; Memorization skills;Persistence; Physical stamina;Reading skills.; Speaking skills.

500

Describe the Globe theater?

Shakespeare called his theatre a 'wooden O' and like his historic playhouse, our Globe Theatre is a 360° auditorium. With no roof over the central yard, the theatre is open-air and audiences who attend performances and tours are told to dress for the weather! Events will go ahead in rain, shine, and snow.

500

an experience in which the audience or reader experiences the same emotions that the characters are experiencing on stage or on the page.

what is Catharsis