Presentational
Representational
Playwrights
Directors/Designers
Definitions
100
In a presentational style there is a deliberate attempt to be this.
What is theatrical?
100
In representational theatre, there is a definite attempt to look or feel this way.
What is real?
100
The convention of having a person explain the story to audience as if they are not involved.
What is narration or a narrator?
100
Acting without words
What is pantomime?
100
Acting without a script.
What is improv?
200
In presentational theatre, actors commonly play this throughout the play.
What is multiple roles?
200
This is the idea that the perspective of the audience is this of the building, as if you are looking through glass.
What is the fourth wall?
200
The trait of jumping from the present to the past.
What is a flash back?
200
Directors may create scenery or costumes that tell about a character or environment by their appearance and being this.
What is symbolic?
200
The path of movement on the stage.
What is blocking?
300
In presentational theatre, you see actors change costumes and sets in this place.
What is in view of the audience.
300
In representational theatre, it is common for actors to play this throughout.
What is one role?
300
Playwrights can use the passage of these two types of time to help tell their story.
What is stage time vs. plot time?
300
The illusion that _______________ the set there is more.
What is beyond?
300
You talk directly to the audience, often as an interruption to a conversation with the other actor on stage. By convention the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage.
What is an aside?
400
This is the act of giving inanimate objects human qualities.
What is personification?
400
In representational theatre, there this type of sequence of time.
What is logical?
400
The trait of jumping from the present to the future.
What is flash forward?
400
Directors create scenes that have a deliberate ________.
What is tempo?
400
Here a character relates his or her thoughts and feelings to him/herself and to the audience without addressing any of the other characters.
What is a soliloquy?
500
In a presentational style, this is shown or obvious.
What is "Theatre Magic"?
500
In representational style, theatre magic is this.
What is hidden?
500
This trait is common in musicals and shows like Smash, Glee, and Nashville to help tell the story in a different way then dialogue.
What is song and music?
500
Use of __________ and ____________ to replicate reality.
What is light and sound?
500
When the character may be speaking his or her thoughts aloud, directly addressing another character, or speaking to the audience
What is a monologue?