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| Theatre as a art from does what |
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| Entertains the audience, challenges audience to confront, provides more focused version on reality that real like experience |
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| Theatre comes from the greek word, which means |
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| casting actors of a different race that characters are written for (color blind casting) |
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| Roman writer horace defined the funtion of theatre as to |
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| Bertolt Brecht wrote plays about? |
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| Define and gice an example of Commercial Theatre |
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| amateur theatre which shows are created by volunteers who generally aren't part of an a pro community |
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| term used by aristotle to describe the audience's emotional release by play's end |
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| When an audience member experiences a sense of participation and identifiaction with a character on stage |
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| The fully realized performance of a play with actors, sets, costumer, lighting, and props |
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| Person in charge of the artistic aspects of the production |
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| The person responsible for the safety and comfort of the audience members during their time at the theater |
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| In a proscenium theatre, the spaces offstage left and right for actors, crew and scenery that are not visible are known as |
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| A thrust stage that can be moved from place to place by a traveling troupe of player is known as |
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| The traditional theater space in which the audience completely surrounds the performance ares is |
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| A theatre space that is small and features flexible seating fot eh audience is |
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| what does the term aesthetic distance literally mean |
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| Your recognition of what actually happened on stage is |
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| When the audience accepts the authenticity of a character the character is said to have |
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| The theatrical term for actors working together as a team is a |
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| Historians believe that western theatre had it beginings in the religious rituals associated with the greek God |
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| Brodway theatre refers to theatre loacted in the theatre distrcit that sats as many as 1800 patrons |
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| The audience area of any theatrical space is called |
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| The director is responsible for organizing and overseeing ticket sales |
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| The central character of the play is also referred to as the antagonist |
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| T/F the visual element of the play are considered Spectacle |
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| T/F when one character for an extended time on stage that portion of the text is called monolouge |
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| T/F Blank verse refers to plays written where every line in the play rhymes |
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| T/F Genre relates to the time period in which a specific play was written |
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| T/F Tradegy deals with serious subject mater and provokes the emotions of pity and fear |
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| T/F A play where comedy an tragedy are equally mixed is considered a tragicomedy |
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| T/F copyright laws recognize a play as a writers intellectual property |
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| Elements of play as defined by aristotle |
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| Plot, character, thought, language, music, spectacle |
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| Aristotle defines plot as |
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| When the events of a play progress forward and sequentially in the plot the play is |
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| What does the text of the play include |
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| Dialouge and stage direction |
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| information given by the playwright that is needed to understand the play is |
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| The point in the story at which the playwright chooses to dramatize the action is the |
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| the event in a play that destroys the uneasy balance and sets off the major conflict of forces is the |
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| Small units of action that build in emotional intensity make up the |
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| Something found, learned or realized during the action of the play is called a |
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| A play that stops at the climax and does not show the outcome of the conflict is considered a |
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| When are secondary lines of action that are entwined with the main plot is called |
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| Payments to the playwright made by the producing organization each time a play is produced |
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| The first theatrical productions in ancient Greece were preformed in honor of the Greek God |
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| In ancient Greek theatre the chorus entered and exited through the |
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| In ancient Greek theatre the audience was seated in the |
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| The only surviving trilogy of Greek Plays, the Orestia, was written by |
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| Stadium like entrances for the audience are called |
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| During the middle ages a moving wagon that traveled through the streets carrying actors and scenery to various locations was called |
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| Three unities of neoclassicism |
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