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