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| Most common type of Theater. "Picture Frame" box. |
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| Audience on all three sides. |
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| You can pretty much do what every you want. Usually comes with rigging to hang lights. The Fallout is a flexible black box. |
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| Greek Theaters were built into the sides of hills. Almost like a large cut out bowl. |
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| Large flat space at bottom of hill (in the center of the "bowl") where most of the action took place. |
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| Play house. Right behind the orchestra. |
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| Elevated platform over skene. |
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| Like the skene, but elevated. Storage. Above proskenium. |
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| The sides of the "bowl" were the audience would sit. |
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| Much like the Greek theater, because when the Romans took over the Greeks, they adapted to their culture. Only a few differences, and they didn't build them into the sides of Hills. |
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| Skene, Proskenium, and Paraskenia, but much more decorative. |
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| (Between Roman times and Medieval was the dark ages, and theater wasn’t done much) First Medieval theater were stories from the bible acted in order for priest to teach their illiterate subordinates stories. |
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| A moving stage, carnival type thing. |
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| Platform Stage (Medieval) |
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| Simple stages set up for traveling performers |
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| Moving from one huge room set as one scene to another as the play progressed. (You moving through the theater.) |
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| Forced Perspective (Renaissance) |
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| Painting large backdrops to make it look like there’s a huge hallway or room behind the stage |
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| Raked Stage (Renaissance) |
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| A stage in which the stage gets higher as you go back (upstage). |
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| Keeping a set of general drops and general settings. I.e. Drops of city, woods, castle, etc. Plays were often written around this |
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| Painted Drops (Renaissance) |
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| Very popular in this period. |
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| Globe Theater... Shakespeare. Three levels of seating. |
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| Also known as yard. Ground beneath the stage where the common people -the groundlings- would watch the play. |
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| Platform stage built off the ground at about 4-6 feet. |
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| Upstage end of the stage. |
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| An area above the inner below on the back wall, or the acting area provided by the roof of the structure that projected onto the stage. |
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| An area above the inner below on the back wall, or the acting area provided by the roof of the structure that projected onto the stage. |
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