The character or figure who symbolizes the culture's most valued traits and is the central figure in a tragedy or play
What is a Hero?
100
Area of the theatre in which the spectators are placed on three sides of the stage
What is a thrust stage?
100
This is any specialist who assists in a production by training actors in particular skills. The most common of which include movement and voice
What is a coach?
100
One of the classical theatres of Japan dating from the seventeenth century; a popular form in contrast with the elitist form of the Noh
What is Kabuki?
100
A style of drama that portrays human existence as meaningless and language as an insufficient way of communication
What is Absurdism?
200
A monologue in which the character speaks his or her thoughts aloud, not directed toward any other person
What is a soliloquy?
200
This is an arrangement of a theatre area in which the audience faces the actor on any one side
What is a proscenium stage?
200
This is the supervisor of the crew in filmmaking charged with both camera work and lighting needs
Who is the key grip?
200
German who is often referred to as the Father of Modern Directing; developed the role of the director as a single voice controlling all elements of production
Who is Georg ii, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen?
200
European Artisan movement that began after World War I that portrayed the meaningless of life and influenced poetry, paintings, and theatre
What is Dadaism?
300
A traditional, cultural, or individual practice involving well-defined and exact movements, music, or spoken text that serves to communicate with deities or to provide structure and comfort to the society or individual
What is a ritual?
300
Aims to eliminate the space and distinction between the actors on stage and the audience by using the total theatre space to create the environment for the production. As a result it is usually a small, nontraditional space or black box type of theater
What is a environmental stage?
300
Any individual, group, or institution that controls the business side of a production
What is a producer?
300
A storyteller, performer, and keeper of communal memory; primary figure in Western and Middle Eastern traditions
What is a Bard?
300
A theatre style that attempts to expose life through the lens of the author of the protagonist as he experiences it
What is Expressionism?
400
In ancient Greece, this was a song sung to honor the god Dionysus; precursor to the Greek tragedy
What is a dithyramb?
400
This is an adjustable theatre space that usually holds less than a hundred people
What is a black box theater?
400
This is a compartment where theatre tickets are sold
What is the box office?
400
A singer, storyteller, and keeper of the community's collective memory/history in traditional African theatre
What is a griot or a griotte?
400
A post?World War I movement that views the world as a godless, senseless place where human beings live in a meaningless void
What is Existentialism?
500
Fourth-century BCE Greek philosopher; the first known Western theatre critic and author of Poetics
Who is Aristotle?
500
A theatrical performance area that is usually circular and completely surrounded by the audience
What is a arena stage?
500
An expert adviser of theatre history who helps actors, designers, and directors better understand the particulars of the play
Who is the dramaturg?
500
This is a sanskrit term for the director and trainer of traditional Indian dance theatre
What is a sutradhara?
500
A movement of art beginning in early twentieth-century Italy that glorifies the age of mechanization and the energy of the Industrial Age