Positioning
The center of the acting area.
What is center stage?
Theatre that focuses on public performance in front of an audience and in which the final production is most important.
What is formal theater?
The personality or part an actor recreates.
What is a charecter?
Detailed information revealing the facts of a plot.
What is exposition?
A person who writes plays.
What is a Play-write?
The stage area toward the audience.
What is down stage?
The theatre of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and often extended to the close of the theatres in 1640.
What is Elizabethan Theatre?
The main character of a play and the character with whom the audience identifies most strongly.
What is a protagonist?
The middle part of a plot consisting of complications and discoveries that create conflict.
What is a rising action?
A person, male or female, who performs a role in a play or an entertainment.
What is an Actor?
The left side of the stage from the perspective of an actor facing the audience.
What is stage left?
Theatrical events in honor of the god Dionysus that occurred in Ancient Greece and included play competitions and a chorus of masked actors.
What is Greek Theatre?
A person, a situation, or the protagonist's own inner conflict in opposition to his or her goals.
What is the antagoist?
The point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action.
What is the climax?
The person who oversees the entire process of staging a production.
What is a director?
The right side of the stage from the perspective of an actor facing the audience.
What is stage right?
One of the traditional forms of Japanese theatre in which masked male actors use highly stylized dance and poetry to tell stories.
What is Noh?
An ancient art form based on pantomime in which conventionalized gestures are used to express ideas rather than represent actions; also, a performer of...
What is a mime?
The opposition of persons or forces giving rise to dramatic action in a play.
What is a conflict?
The backstage technical crew responsible for running the show.
What is a stage crew?
Used as a noun, the stage area away from the audience; used as a verb, to steal the focus of a scene.
What is upstage?
Theatrical movement of the early 1920s and 1930 characterized by the use of such artificial devices as cartoons, posters, and film sequences distancing the audience from theatrical illusion and allowing focus on the play's message.
What is epic theatre?
Established characters, such as young lovers, neighborhood busybodies, sneaky villains, and overprotective fathers, who are immediately recognizable by an audience.
What are stock characters?
The interrelated conditions in which a play exists or occurs.
What is the context
The director's liaison backstage during rehearsal and performance.
What is a stage manager?