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Definitions for various terms related to theatre, including terms for different areas of the theatre, dramatic genres, characters, and roles in commedia del arte. It also includes definitions for key figures in the history of theatre and different theatrical movements.
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Audience viewing area. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 Side scenery. TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 The performance area. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 Purging of emotion. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 A parados is a song sung by a Greek chorus as it first enters the theatre. When the chorus enters.
In Othello, jealousy. TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 Male servants in Comedia del Arte. TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 A clown character. TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 A love intrest/ingenue. TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 Lazzi (from the Italian lazzo, a joke or witticism) is a piece of well-rehearsed comic action commonly used in the Commedia dell'arte. Comic bits of business.
Realism was a general movement in 19th-century theatre that steered theatrical texts and performances toward greater fidelity to real life, including Naturalism in France, Verismo in Italy, and similar movements. TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 ldld TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 (Like how the director of Angels sees an Angel in every scene) TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 Type Casting TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 Colour-blind casting, non-traditional casting or integrated casting is the practice in the casting a role without considering the actor's ethnicity.
Scenic design (also known as stage design, set design or production design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. TERM 22
DEFINITION 22 Put in by scenic designer. TERM 23
DEFINITION 23 Put in by scenic designer. TERM 24
DEFINITION 24 The role of the lighting designer (or LD) within theatre is to work with the director, set designer, costume designer, and sometimes the sound designer and choreographer to create an overall 'look' for the show in response to the text, while keeping in mind issues of visibility, safety and cost. TERM 25
DEFINITION 25 A costume designer is a person whose responsibility is to design costumes for a film or stage production. Sets characterization and time period.
Greek Playwright Wrote Oedipus Rex. TERM 32
DEFINITION 32 English poet and playwright Wrote Othello. TERM 33
DEFINITION 33 Henrik Ibsen (; 20 March 1828 - 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. "Father of Modern Drama" TERM 34
DEFINITION 34 Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 - February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. Wrote Death of a Salesman. TERM 35
DEFINITION 35 Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983), born Thomas Lanier Williams, was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama. Wrote The Glass Menagerie.
Elia Kazan (pronounced -L- ka-ZAHN; September 7, 1909 - September 28, 2003) was an American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in
DEFINITION 37 Constantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski () ( - 7 August 1938), was a Russian actor and theatre director. Created method acting
