Types of Theatre
A spontaneous style of theatre in which scenes are created without advance rehearsing or scripting.
Improvisation
The person who oversees the entire staging process of a production
Director
An expressive movement of the body or limbs
Gesture
The written text of a play
Script
A character's reason for doing or saying things in a play
Motivation
A type of entertainment containing music, songs, and, usually, dance.
Musical Theatre
The main character of a play and the character with whom the audience identifies most strongly.
Protagonist
Acting without words through facial expression, gesture, and movement.
Pantomime
Items carried on stage by an actor; small items on the set
Props
A character's goal or intention
Objective
Theatrical events in honor of the god Dionysus that occurred in Ancient Greece and included play competitions and a chorus of masked actors
Greek Theatre
A person who writes plays
Playwrite
The pronunciation of words, the choice of words, and the manner in which a person expresses himself or herself.
Diction
Position on stage (Center, left, right, upstage)
Acting Areas
Opinions and comments based on predetermined criteria that may be used for self-evaluation or the evaluation of the actors or the production itself.
Critique
The theatre of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and often extended to the close of the theatres in 1640
Elizabethan theatre
Established characters, such as young lovers, neighborhood busybodies, sneaky villains, and overprotective fathers, who are immediately recognizable by an audience.
DAILY DOUBLE
Stock Characters
A signal, either verbal/physical to indicate something else such as a line of dialogue
Cue
A silent and motionless depiction of a scene created by actors, often from a picture. The plural is tableaux
The critical elements of a production, such as acting, direction, lighting, costuming, sets, and makeup
Production values
One of the traditional forms of Japanese theatre, originating in the 1600s and combining stylized acting, costumes, makeup, and musical accompaniment
DAILY DOUBLE
Kabuki
A person who provides specific in-depth knowledge and literary resources to a director, producer, theatre company, or even the audience.
Dramaturg
The characteristics of a voice, such as shrill, nasal, raspy, breathy, booming, and so forth.
Vocal quality
The enlarged hole cut through a wall to allow the audience to view the stage. It is also called the proscenium arch. The archway is in a sense the frame for the action on the stage.
DAILY DOUBLE
Proscenium
Cosmetics and sometimes hairstyles that an actor wears on stage to emphasize facial features, historical periods, characterizations, and so forth.
Makeup