Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Theatre Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aesthetic distance | Enter into an imaginative world; separate from everyday reality |
| Auteur Director | Attempts to present his/her own version of dramatic work; not necessarily of the playwright |
| Critics | Observe theatre and then analyzes and comments on it |
| Reviewers | Same as critics |
| Diegesis | Conveying the action of a story through narrative voice |
| Mimesis | Imiation of action |
| Methexis | Group sharing; including audience; improvisation |
| Action | Second essential of a dramatic structure; cause and effect; beginning, middle, and end |
| Conflict | Third essential of a dramatic structure; collision of people in a drama that gives rise to dramatic action |
| Obstacle | Hurdles blocking a character's path; outside force that introduces at an inopportune moment |
| Complication | Same as obstacle |
| Crisis | Results from obstacles and complications involving dramatic characters |
| Climax | Final and most significant crisis. Issues of the play are resolved/ended |
| Exposition | Details about the past to be introduced so the audience can understand the character or plot |
| Deus ex machine | To save the action from its logical conclusion; untangles the knots |
| Subplot | Parallel plot; technique of episodic drama |
| Ritual | Reenactment of some transition that has special meaning; formal events; weddings |
| Dialogue | Conversation between characters in a novel/short story |
| Stock character | Character who has one outstanding trait of human behavior to the exclusion of all other attributes; seem like sterotypes |
| Commedia dell'arte | A form of comic improvisational theatre that flourished in Italy from the late 1600 to the 1800 |
| Chorus | Sing and dance in a main plot |
| Protagonist | Leading character |
| Antagonist | Character opposing the protagonist |
| Tragedy | Dramatic form involving serious actions of universal significance; unhappy ending |
| Comedy | Concerned with issues that are not serious; amusing; happy ending |
| Slapstick | Type of comedy that relies on ridiculous physical activity; violence |
| Farce | Dramatic genre usually regarded as a subclass of comedy, with emphasis on plot complications and with few pretensions |
| Satire | Dramatic techniques of comedy; use of irony, and wit; to attack and expose vice |
| Theatre of the absurd | Plays expressing absurdity of existence |
| Realism | Presenting everyday life events and issues onstage |
| Konstantin Stanislavsi | Russian actor and director; Cofounder of the Moscow Art Theater in Russia |
| "Magic If" | Stanislavski acting exercise; How would I react if I were in this character's position |
| Ensemble Recall | Stanislavski exercise in helping performers present realistic emotions |
| Voice Projection | Voice is used loudly and clearly in singing or speaking |
| Ensemble playing | Acting that stresses the total artistic unity of a group performance rather than individual performances |
| General Audition | 1st phase of the casting process |
| "Cattle call" | Mass audition; prepared monologue |
| Callback Audition | 2nd phase of casting process |
| "Sides" | Small scenes that are being produced |
| Headshot | A actor's face as a visual refernce |
| Actors' Equity Association | Professional union of theatre actors and stage managers |
| Screen Actors Guild | Professional unions for actors in films |
| Talent Agency/Agency | Will arrange for audition and negotiate contracts |
| Spine/Throughline | A character's dominant desire; usually thought of as an action and expressed as a verb |
| Casting | Assigning roles to performers in a production |
| Audition | Tryouts held for performers to be in a production |
| Blocking | Pattern and arrangement of performers' movements onstage with respect to each other and to the stage space |
| Technical rehearsel | All design and technical elements brought together |
| Run-through | Rehearsal in which the cast goes through the whole text of the play in order that will be performed |
| Dress rehearsel | Rehearsal which a play will be performed as it will be for the public |
| Stage Manager | Person coordinates the rehearsal and performance |
| Dramaturg | Literacy advisor or dramatic adviser of a theatre company |
| Artistic Director | Person responsible for all creative and artistic activities |
| Proscenium | Arch or frame surrounding the stage opening in a box or picture stage |
| "Fourth Wall" | Audience looking into a room through an invisible fourth wall |
| Rake | Upward slope of the stage floor away from the audience; position scenery on a slant |
| Fly loft | Space where scenery may be lifted out of sight by pulleys |
| Thrust stage | Theatre space where the audience sits on three sides of the stage |
| Traverse/ Tennis court stage | Two sides of the stage filled with people |
| Arena stage/ Theatre-in-the-round | Stage entirely surrounded by an audience |
| Black box | Theatre space that is open and flexible without fix seating or stage arena |
| Environmental/ Site-specific staging | Interaction with the audience at a restaurant |
| Ground plan | Layout of stage design to indicate placements |
| Stage Areas | --- |
| Wagon | Low platform mounted on wheels to move items on and off stage |
| Flat | Single piece of flat scenery to create a set |
| Scrim | Thin, open wave fabric which is lit from behind (transparent) and opaque when lit from the front |
| Computer-aided design | Use of computers to create design components such as ground plans |
| Scenic charge artist | Person responsible in seeing that the sets are built and painted according to designer |
| Paint charge artist | Person responsible in seeing that the hole scenery is painted |
| Dimmer | Device in changing lightning intensity soomthly |
| Downlighting | Lighting that comes directly overhead |
| Backlighting | Lighting that comes from behind |
| Gobo | Template determining the shape and arrangement of the beam |
| Follow spot | Large, powerful spotlight with a sharp focus used to follow characters |
| Blackout | Total darkening of the stage |
| Fade | Slow dimming of lights |
| Motivated sounds | Sounds called for in the script to recognize sources |
| Environmental sounds | Noises from everyday life providing background |
| Peter Brock | Creater of Empty space |
| Right stage | Right side is the performer's view facing the audience |
| Left side | Left side is the performer's view facing the audience |
| Director | Person who coordinates and rehearses performers to ensure that interpret the text correctly |
| Script | Blueprint |
| Theatre space | Where the performers and audiences come together |
Created by:
animalsavior
Popular ACT sets