The group or person for whom a work of art, architecture, literature, drama, film, or music is intended.
What is the audience?
100
The participants in an event - the people doing the action.
What are actors?
100
The term referring to when the actors bow to the audience, thanking them for their participation while the audience applauds the actors, thanking them for their work.
What is a curtain call?
100
Refers to theatre being an experience that stays with us.
What is a lasting impact?
200
The person who is portraying a character on the stage or screen.
What is the actor?
200
The name of the area behind the stage where actors can do costume changes and are hidden from the audience.
What is backstage?
200
A term referring to a character turning and speaking directly to the audience while the other actors pretend not to hear him/her.
What is an aside?
200
Where the audience consciously sets aside its knowledge that what is happening on the stage is fiction and pretends for the duration of the performance to believe that what it’s watching is really happening.
What is willing suspension of disbelief?
300
Humans are these; we get comfort and pleasure from being included in a crowd that has gathered together for a common purpose
What are herd animals?
300
A trait shown by the fact that theatre is happening right now - currently.
What is the present tense?
300
Our understanding that the action on stage is happening in a time and place different from our own.
What is a virtual time and virtual place?
300
A trait of theatre where in addition to seeing and hearing it, we smell it, taste it, and feel it.
What is communication through all five senses?
400
A performance that takes place once in person
What is a live event?
400
A trait shown by a play being divided into lengthy segments that are numbered and labeled.
What is predetermined structure?
400
A trait shown through theatre happening only when the actors and audience convene for an event at a specific moment.
What is a particular time?
400
When plays are set in a living room or kitchen, the actors pretend that, in addition to the three walls of the room around them, another wall exists on the side facing the audience.
What is the fourth wall?
500
The numbered and labeled lengthy segments a play is typically divided into - part of a play's predetermined structure.
What are acts?
500
The numbered and labeled shorter segments within acts a play is typically divided into - part of a play's predetermined structure.
What are scenes?
500
The agreed upon rules of the theatre game - example: curtain call, aside, etc.
What are theatrical conventions?
500
The human capacity for participating in another person's feelings.