Theatre is Everywhere
The Elements of Theatre
The Role of the Audience
The Elements of Traditional Tragedy
Genre
100

Theatre that is observed through an electronic medium such as Hairspray LIVE or other filmed productions. 

What is mediated theatre? 

100

The people tasked with becoming characters and storytelling. 

What are performers? 

100

A person who reports on whether or not a show is worth seeing. 

What is a reviewer? (critic is also acceptable)

100

The protagonist of the story. This is typically a person of noble standing such as a king or queen.

What are tragic heroes (heroines)?

100

Twentieth century plays expressing the dramatists' sense of absurdity and futility of human existence through the dramatic techniques such as: nonsense and non sequitur language, existential beings, and plot illogicality. 

What is theatre of the absurd?

200

LCT, Lubbock Moonlight Musicals, and CAT's Playhouse are all local examples of this type of theater company. 

What is community theatre? 

200

The people attending a theatre performance. 

What is the audience? 

200

Refraining from use of phone, avoiding conversations, and applauding when appropriate are all good examples of this.  

What is theatre (audience) etiquette? 

200

The heightened language used to write tragedies. 

What is tragic verse?

200

A play in which serious and comedic elements are integrated. Often this is a comic or ironic treatment of a serious theme.

What is tragicomedy?
300

Permanent, professional, and non-profit theatre offering first-class productions to their audiences

What are regional theaters?

300

The building or place in which a piece of theatre is presented. This can be a traditional theatre building or a site chosen for the performance. 

What is a theater space? 
300

"What is being attempted? Have the intentions been achieved? Was the attempt worthwhile?" are make up this.

What are the questions of critical criteria?
300

The universe has designed a fateful web to force the tragic hero to fall.

What are tragic circumstances?

300

Serious dramas that include elements of traditional tragedy matched with happy or hopeful endings. 

What is heroic drama?

400

Theatre performed outside of an established theater building. A creative team chooses a space they believe will add to the setting and illuminate the text. 

What is site-specific theatre? 
400

The set, the sound, the costumes, the projections, the lights, and any other visual elements are all examples of these. 

What are design elements? 

400

The separation of audience member from the performance to experience its aesthetic qualities.

What is aesthetic distance?

400

The point in the story in which a character has no honorable means of escape. They cannot go back. 

What is tragic irretrievability?

400

A dramatic form made popular in the nineteenth century that emphasized action and spectacular effects and also used music to underscore the action. 

What is melodrama?

500

A contraction of costume and play that combines role-playing costuming, and social interactions through the internet or at conventions. 

What is cosplay? 

500

The person responsible for unifying and leading the vision of the show. 

Who is the Director?

500

The audience desire to believe that the events they are witnessing onstage are real. 

What is the willing suspension of disbelief?

500
The tragic hero moves forward to meet fate and, in doing so, reveals a great capacity for suffering. 

What is acceptance of responsibility?

500
The nineteenth century movement that imitated the episodic structure of Shakespeare and thematically focused on the gulf between human beings' spiritual aspirations and physical limitations. 

What is romanticism?