THTR Review

Also known as multipoint perspective, painted settings that pull the eye to multiple vanishing points

Stage entirely surrounded by the audience; also known as circle theater or theatre-in-the-round

An eighteenth-century satircal form that incorperated popular music

The refreshment box in Spanish Golden Age theatre

A nineteenth-century popular theatre formin China that combines music, theater, and dance with colorful conventions

A term meaning agitation-propaganda, referring to plays with a strong social or political agenda

Pattern & arrangement of performer's movements onstage with respect to each other and to the stage space set by director

Meyerhold's theory that a performer's body should be machine-like and that emotion could be represented externally

A theater space that is open, flexible, and adaptable, usually without fixed seating.

Serious dramas written in the eighteenth century that focused on middle-class characters and were sentimental

In classical Greek Old Comedy, a scene with a debate between two opposing forces in a play

The seperation of audience member from the performance or art work to experience aesthetic qualities

Spoken (as opposed to snug) portion of the text of a musical play

Eighteenth-century art and music that emphasized ornamentation

Symbolic representation of abstract themes through characters, action, and other concrete elements of play

To create a costume from scratch in a costume shop

French term for author - When used to describe a director - drastic alterations and transformation to traditional script

Short agit-prop dramas about the lives of Chicano workers

An alley (traverse/corridor) theatre space is a stage arrangement where the audience faces the stage on 2 seperate sides

Opponent of the protagonist in a drama

Large oval, circular, or semicircular outdoor theatre with rising tiers of seats around an open playing

Drama dealing with problems-particularly family problems of middle/low class characters

A sequence of events linked by cause and effect, with a beginning, middle, and end

Small private compartment for a group fo spectators built into the walls of traditional proscenium-arch