What does à director do?
The director is responsible for the overall vision of the production.
What does a set designer do?
Will plan what the set looks like.
What does the front of house do?
Are responsible for showing the audience to their seats.
What is an arena stage?
Theatre in which is located in the centre of the auditorium with the audience seated on all sides.
Sometimes known as the Theatre in the round
What does the producer do?
Decides on a director and looks after the budget of the play.
What does the costume designer do?
Designs what the actors wear.
What does the stage manager do?
Is responsible for the running of the stage during the play.
What does the box office do?
Sell tickets to the public.
What does the publicity coordinator do?
Organises the advertising of the play
What stage extends in to the crowd?
How many sides of seats does it often have facing it?
A thrust stage
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Where does the word drama come from and what does it mean?
It is a Greek word dran meaning action
Can you list three plays the ancient Greeks created?
Tragedy
Comedies
Action
Can you list 4 things the chorus did?
Commentated
Danced
Sang
Recited
What is the medieval Theatre time period known as?
Medieval
Who disapproved of the Theatre during medieval times?
The church
What did the male actors wear in medieval times?
Robes
Where were the medieval plays performed?
In the halls of rich people
In town squares
________________ is the name of a type of Theatre that started in Italy. The actors often wore _________ and did/didn’t use scripts.
Comedia dell arte
Masks
Didn’t
What is the name of the type of Theatre associated with Shakespeare?
Elizabethan
One interesting thing about the restoration Theatre is that woman….
Did perform
Name the 2 theatres in Belfast
The grand opera house
Lyric Theatre
The Theatre located in west London is called…
West end
In New York, at Times Square the Theatre is called…
Broadway
What type of stage does Wallace have?
Proscenium
Fill in…
_______. _______. _______. _______. _______. 18th century. Victorian
BC-500.500-1500 -1700.1550-1650. -1700 -1800. Melodrama
_______. Political Theatre. Theatre of the. Kitchen sink drama. -1900
1860-now 1920-now. Absurd. 1956-1970
1945-1960
Greek. Medieval. Comedia dell arte Elizabeth. Restoration
Naturalism