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Flexible, movable
Black Box
Audience on all sides
Arena
picture frame stage
Proscenium
Audience on all 3 sides, semicircle
Thrust
Carved into a hillside
Ampitheater
ahead of its time
Avant-garde
outward expression for inward feelings
Expressionism
slice of life drama
Naturalism
everyday life
Realism
alternate nights
Repertory theater
wit, irony, exaggeration, expose evil
satire
striptease
Burlesque
Family situations
Domestic Comedy
no intellectual pretense
Farce
stock characters, background music
Melodrama
selection/ arrangement scene
Plot
ingredients of a plot
Action & Conflict
final crisis
Climax
dramatic structure
Organization & Consistenccy
narrative account of what happens
Story
Italian improve
Commedia dell'arte
Below words, emotion
Subtext
basic natural laws suspended
Comedy
broad psychical humor
Slapstick
word sounds like right word
Malaprop
arrange performers on stage
To Block
remove
To Strike
add finishing touches
To Dress the Set
make costume look worn
To Distress
cut off backstage area
To Mask
3rd step for making play
Thumbnail Sketches
4th step for making a play
Rendering
5th step for making a play
Model
1st step for making a play
Read
2nd step for making a play
Meet with director
1st step for actors
Audition
2nd step for actors
Callbacks
3rd step for actors
Rehearsal
4th step for actors
Tech Rehearsal
5th step for actors
Dress Rehearsal
side of stage
Wings
first floor
Orchestra
slant
Rake
Greek stage house
Skene
Cloth screen
Scrim
Character speaks to audience
Soliloquy
main character
Protagonist
writes words to a song
Lyricist
chief opponent
Antagonist
Background info
Exposition
rent costumes
to pull
arrange sounds
edit
raise out of view
to fly
make costumes
to build
aim light at certain area
to focus
Professional Actors union
Actor's Equity Association
equivalent to film Oscars
Tony
acting technique
The Method
comic piece of business in Commedia dell'arte
Lazzi
Type/ category
Genre
God from the Machine
Deus ex Machina
Through line of action
Spine
goal
Objective
Central thought
Theme
try-out performance
Previews
Makes fun of customs in society
Comedy of Manners
verbal rather than pyshical
Comedy of Ideas
Blend of serious and comic
Tragicomedy
Variety acts for family
Vaudeville
how many tickets are sold
House
Developed Realism
Ibsen & Chekhov
first director
Duke of Saxe- Meiningen
African American playwright
August Wilson
political, alienation
Bertolt Brecht
Cats
Andrew Lloyd Weber
play several parts in one play
Double
False face
Facade
fictions created by dramatist/ performer
Stage Characters
narrator of Greeks plays
Chorus
line thrown to audience by actor
Aside
Ushers, ticket sellers, etc
Front of the House
first actor in Greece
Thespis
numerous settings
Episodic Structure
drama of Greeks
Italian Opera
American talent
Modern Musical Theater
acting
Emotional Recall
Stanislavski
Magic If
skeptical, beautiful women, costumes
Ziegfeld Follies
modern acting techniques
Constantine Stanislavski
realistic story that serves as a lesson
Allegory
lighting& sound cues
Cue to Cue Rehearsal
Sound effects
Environmental and Motivated Sounds
Rodgers & Hammerstein; Gershwin Brothers
Golden Era of the Book Musical
Heart and soul
Performers
men played...
women in Elizabethan plays