Theatre Flashcards
The activity or profession of acting in, producing, directing, or writing plays
Theater
A serious drama or other literary work in which conflict between a protagonist and a superior force concludes in disaster for the protagonist
Tragedy
The genre of dramatic literature that deals with the light or the assuming or with the serious and profound in a light, familiar, or satiric manner
Comedy
A drama combining the qualities of tragedy and comedy
Tragicomedy
In theatre, a genre characterized by a stereotyped characters, implausible plots, and emphasizes on spectacle
Melodrama
A genre of art comprising a multi- disciplinary, live, theoretical presentation, usually a live audience. Typically involves non- theatre artists and a non- theatre environment.
Performance art
The written dialogue an actor/actress uses to bring to life the message contained within it.
Script
In theatre, film, and narrative literature, the structure of the work comprising crises, climax, exposition, complication, and denouement, foreshadowing, discovery, and reversals.
Plot
In theatre, film and literature, the aspect of plot in which necessary background information, introduction of characters, and current situation are detailed.
Exposition
In visual art, the illusion depicted on a two- dimensional surface, in which figures and objects appear to recede or project sharply into space, often using the rules of linear perspective. In fictional film, theatre and literature, the organization and presentation of events that prepare the viewer or reader for something that will occur later
Foreshadowing
The realization of what was foreshadowed has a reached fruition or has been revealed
Discovery
The back of a coin- the opposite of what the viewer, or reader would have expected to happen
Reversal
A person in a novel, play, or movie.
Character
In theatre, the use of light to enhance the three dimensionality of the human body or the elements of the scenery
Chiaroscuro
The leading actor or personage in a play or narrative work- that is, the major character around whose decisions and actions the plot revolves
Protagonist