The Audience
This component of theatre is its most important; without it, a play is just a bunch of people playing around on stage.
What is the audience?
Named for the arch that spans over it, this type of stage has the audience seated on just one side.
What is a proscenium?
This is the arrangement of events, or the selection and order of scenes of the play. It's not just a story!
What is the plot?
A character who experiences a fundamental and permanent change from the beginning of a play to the end is known as this type of character.
What is a dynamic character?
It was common for Scandinavian people to take holidays to warmer climates to recover from illnesses, like this country to which Nora and Torvald travel.
What is Italy?
Theatre is always about this subject, one of the reasons it's so compelling.
What is people?
This type of theatre space is also known as the theatre-in-the-round, due to the audience sitting all around the stage.
What is an arena theatre?
This is the first "ingredient" in a play's recipe.
What is incentive/motivation?
This kind of protagonist is aware of their fundamental imbalance and attempts to solve it.
What is an active protagonist?
This symbol of A Doll's House represents agitation and deceit. Hope you're not afraid of spiders!
What is the tarantella?
Every person involved in a theatrical production--from pracititioner to audience member--needs this in order for theatre to be successful.
What is imagination?
This type of theatre space is smaller, more intimate, and offers flexible seating arrangements.
What is a black box theatre?
Every play needs its characters to do something! Even this Greek word for "drama" means "to do" or "to act!"
What is dran?
In The Lion King, both Timon and Pumbaa are comedic versions of this type of character, complementing and contrasting Simba.
What are foils?
This is how Krogstad knew of Nora's deception; always make sure to double check your work!
What is mis-dating the loan note?
The physical or psychological barrier between the audience and the performers, necessary for the audience to enjoy the show.
What is aesthetic distance?
The name for the part of a thrust stage that extends out into the audience.
What is the tongue?
These are three limitations of theatre that playwrights use to put their characters under pressure; they might make you think of Aristotle.
What are space, time, and plot/story?
Three aspects of script analysis include research, close reading of the text, and this step where the bulk of analysis is done.
What is guess work?
This symbol of the play reveals the truth and often symbolizes change; quite a role for simple pen and paper.
What are letters?
This is a type of performance that eliminates the audience as observers, and makes them participants in the action.
What is sociodrama, dramatherapy, or psychodrama?
A character breaking this changes a play from realism to non-realism.
What is the fourth wall?
This is the final ingredient in a play's recipe; what do you think?
What is the audience's point of view?
Something fundamental about a protagonist that is out of balance; the conflicts of the play arise because of it.
What is the beginning key trait, aka inner conflict, aka central conflict?
Nora and Torvald's marriage falls apart due in part to their belief in this societal convention; also a theme of the play.
What are gender roles?