Curtains
This curtain is found in a proscenium theater and separates the audience from the stage.
What is the Main/House Curtain?
This is the area where the audience sits
What is the House?
This is a type of play that is usually light hearted in nature that aims to get the audience to laugh.
What is a Comedy/Farce?
These are the 6 essential questions for starting a Script Analysis?
What are Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How?
This is the most important event in a play from which the rest of the play develops.
What is the Initial Incident?
These long, vertical curtains separate the stage from the wings.
What are the legs?
This is the area that controls all light and sound instruments during a production.
What is the Tech/Control Booth?
This type of production features music and often dancing.
What is a musical?
This character is usually seen as the hero, but doesn't always end up that way.
Who is the Protagonist?
This is the major event in the play which is the turning point in the story.
What is the Climax?
These long, horizontal curtains hide lighting instruments and the area above the stage from the audience.
What are the Borders?
These three areas are the furthest on stage from the audience.
What is Up Stage Left, Up Stage Right, and Up Stage Center?
This is a play based on past real world narratives.
What is a Historic?
This is the process of mapping out where an actor will travel on stage.
What is Stage Plotting?
This is what a play as a piece of art is trying to say to the audience.
What is the Theme/Message/Purpose/Moral?
This curtain is used to cut the area of the stage in half by pulling in from the wings towards center stage.
What is a Traveler?
This is the area of the theater where the orchestra is traditionally found.
What is the Orchestra Pit?
This is a type of play told from a first person perspective.
What is an Autobiographical?
This is a long speech said by a single actor to themselves, the audience, or to another character.
What is a Monologue?
This is where a play occurs in regards to time and place.
What is the Setting?
This white curtain is used to temporarily hide part of the stage, but reveals what's behind it when lighting is applied to the hidden area.
What is a Scrim?
This is the area between the stage and the house.
What is the Apron?
This is a form of theatre wherein the plot, characters, and dialogues are all exaggerated in order to appeal directly to the audiences emotions from the very beginning.
What is a Melodrama?
This is a moment when an actor faces and approaches the audience to express a thought/feeling/or idea.
What is a Soliloquy?
This is the final outcome of a play.
What is the Conclusion?