• Entertains Audience
• Challenges audiences to confront uncomfortable truths
• Provides a more focused version of reality than life experiences.

• Casting actors of a different race than the characters are written.
• Also called color-blind casting.

• Productions that yield no profit
• May be professional or amateur

• German playwright
• Father of epic theatre
• His writings centered around political themes
• Encouraging audiences to think rather than becoming too involved in the story line and not to identify with the characters

Term used by greek philosopher Aristotle to describe the audience's emotional release by the play's end.

Performances were designated to engage audience's feelings and build in intensity and to help create the feeling of being cleansed or purged of strong emotion by the end of the play.

• Emotional Identification
• Refers to sense of participation and identification with a character

• Literally the distance of art
• Psychological separation
• Sense of detachment (thus allowing the audience to contemplate and evaluate the performance)
• The recognition that what is happening on stage is not reality-literally

• Type of stage usually noted by an arch which separates the audience from the actors.
• Resembles a picture frame
• Began being used during the Italian Renaissance
• Grand Drape
• May have an apron
• Have wing areas

• One of the oldest theatre arrangement to be termed "theatre arcitecture"
• Surrounded on three sides by the audience
• Most of the "playing area" is jutted out into the audience.

The playing space is completely surrounded by audience.

• Requires minimal scenery
• Circular arena theatre is also referred to as theatre in the round

• Small and intimate
• MOST FLEXIBLE stage and audience area of any theatrical space.
• Orchestra pit.

In a proscenium theatre, spaces offstage left and right for actors, crew, and scenery not yet in the visible performance space.

Festival held in his honor that began as a contest.

One actor and large chorus.