Theatre Etiquette
This is the customary behavior expected of people in a particular group or society.
What is etiquette?
This person is one of the most visible members of a production and creates a believable character for the audience.
What is the actor?
This person creates the dances for a musical and teaches them to the performers.
Who is the choreographer?
Western theatre can be traced back to this ancient civilization.
What is Ancient Greece?
This type of play traditionally focuses on serious events and the downfall of its central character.
What is a tragedy?
Arriving late to a performance can cause this problem for both the audience and actors.
What is disrupting the performance?
This person guides the artistic vision of a specific production, casts the show, and rehearses the actors.
What is the stage director?
This person creates the sound effects and overall audio landscape of a production.
Who is the sound designer?
Greek dramatic festivals were held in honor of this god.
Who is Dionysus?
This type of play often poked fun at contemporary Athenian life and could feature humorous costumes and spectacular effects.
What is a comedy?
Unless the venue specifically permits it, bringing this into the theatre is considered poor etiquette.
What are food and drinks?
This person works with the director and crew to coordinate everything during performances and make sure the production runs smoothly.
What is the stage manager?
This person illuminates the world of the play using lighting cues, colors, and effects.
Who is the lighting designer?
This Greek word, meaning "dance," refers to the group that could express opinions, establish mood, and provide movement and spectacle.
What is the chorus?
The Greek word from which "comedy" comes literally means this.
What is komoidia or "party song"?
Audience members should avoid putting these on the seats in front of them.
What are their feet?
This designer creates the appearance of the actors through clothing and accessories.
Who is the costume designer?
This person is responsible for organizing, inventorying, and repairing the objects used by actors during a production.
Who is the prop master?
This structure is the origin of our word "scene" and provided actors with a place to change costumes and masks.
What is the skene?
A tragic hero typically begins with this quality or social position, rather than being an ordinary person with no status.
What is noble stature?
This is permitted before or after but never during a performance is inappropriate because it can distract both the audience and the performers.
What is talking?
This person oversees the entire production, including financing, timelines, staffing, and organization.
What is the producer?
This group is divided into construction and running crews and builds technical elements while also operating them during performances.
Who is the technical crew?
This Greek philosopher was the first great theorist of dramatic art and defined tragedy in his work Poetics.
Who is aristotle?
By the end of a tragedy, the tragic hero comes to understand...
What is self-knowledge/understanding of their own defeat?