The Audience
A stage that is surrounded on three sides by the audience
What is a thrust stage?
Devised a system for acting technique to achieve the believability and demand of the realistic dramas of the 19th century.
Who was Konstantin Stanislavski?
The full account of an event, usually told in chronological order.
What is a story?
The right side of the stage from the audience's point of view.
What is stage left?
Is a 2004 musical set in New York City known for featuring puppets as primary characters.
What is Avenue Q?
What is participatory theatre?
Was a part of The Actors Studio in New York City where he received criticism for over emphasizing the emotional side of Stanislavski's technique.
Who was Lee Strasburg
An outside force or new twist in the plot introduced at an opportune moment.
What is a complication?
A gauze or cloth screen that when lit from the front appears solid but when lit from the rear becomes transparent.
What is a scrim?
A 1970's concept musical based on theme of marriage.
What is Company?
The audience's ability to accept that something happening on stage is real.
What is willing suspension of disbelief?
The fundamental action or main conflict of a play.
What is the spine?
The main representative character in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House who to this day serves as a symbol of the modern woman.
Who is Nora Helmer?
A rehearsal that focuses on safely shifting the set between scenes, setting the light cue levels and determining the exact timing and placement of sound cues.
What is a technical rehearsal?
A prominent play by Lorraine Hansberry about a black family in Chicago moving into a predominantly white neighborhood.
What is A Raisin in the Sun?
These are permanent professional, nonprofit theaters that offer a season of first-class productions to their audiences each year.
What is a regional theater?
When a director decides where performers move and position themselves on stage.
What is blocking?
The synthesis of the serious and the comic.
What is a tragicomedy?
The person responsible for seeing that the scenery, platforms, and other elements are built, painted, and installed on stage.
What is a technical director?
The type of avant garde theatre developed by Jerzy Grotowski that was known for being stripped to it's bare bones and returning focus to the performer.
What is poor theatre?
A deep stage with the "fourth wall" cut out that allows for elaborate scenery.
What is a proscenium stage?
This director takes responsibility for shaping every element of production including the script.
What is an auteur director?
The technical term for the revelation of background material.
What is exposition?
A detailed idea for a feeling, meaning and look that a designer or director might be aiming to accomplish for a certain show.
What is a design concept?
Known as a post modern director who mixed Asian art style, make up and puppetry and created the most successful musical of all time.
Who is Julie Taymor?