Theatre Basics
A group of people working together in a show
What is a cast?
An event where the director views potential candidates for roles in a play
What is an audition?
A type of stage where the audience sits on all 4 sides
What is arena/in the round?
She's the Man is a modern adaptation of this Shakespeare play
What is Twelfth Night?
Greeks typically wrote this genre of plays
What are tragedies?
An invisible wall between the stage and the audience
What is the fourth wall?
A long bit of dialogue performed by only one actor
What is a monologue?
A drawing of a set design that is drawn from the view above the stage
What is a ground plan?
The musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet
What is West Side Story?
The most famous of all the Commedia dell Arte masks
Who is Harlequin?
A single light in a theatre that stays on all night for superstitious reasons
What is a ghost light?
A character's goal in a scene
What is an objective?
The first step in the set design process
What is reading the script?
A type of play where a character has a flaw that eventually leads to their downfall (Hamlet and Macbeth are examples of this)
What is a tragedy?
The very first actor
Who is Thespis?
A style of theatre where the actors perform without a set script and make up the story on the fly.
What is improvisation?
Actions that a character takes to get what they want (in the form of a verb)
What is an tactic?
Something that is built for a set to look like walls of a house
What is a flat?
The theatre in London where Shakespeare's plays were performed
What is the Globe theatre?
The god that the Greeks did religious ritual festivals for
Who is Dionysus?
The name for the area where the audience sits during a show
What is the house?
The precise movements of actors and set pieces onstage during a play
What is blocking?
A platform that is on wheels so it can easily move on and offstage
What is a wagon?
The name of the rhythm of how Shakespeare wrote his plays
What is iambic pentameter?
A plot device where a problem is solved by a sudden, unexpected solution
What is Deux Ex Machina?