These are areas on the periphery of the playing area that can be masked to hide actors, technicians, props, and scenery.
WINGS
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This is a performance space, usually painted black, that permits the rearrangement of seating and playing areas for every production in a variety of traditional and non-traditional arrangements.
BLACK BOX THEATRE
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Name six conventions of Ancient Greek drama.
Deus ex Machina, masks, violence off stage, single-gender (male) cast, chorus, wooden phalluses, singing, dancing, musical instruments on stage.
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This is a type of set design in which flats (painted scenery) form the back and side walls, and sometimes even the ceiling, of a room. Actors make entrances and exits through doors in these walls.
BOX SET
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This is a Shakespearean/Elizabethan theatrical convention involving a lengthy solo speech through which a character reveals an interior state of mind.
SOLILOQUY
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This is the area of the stage farthest from the audience in proscenium or thrust staging.
UPSTAGE
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In Ancient Greek drama, this is a term used for any dramatic device outside of the main action used to bring the play to a final resolution.
DEUS EX MACHINA
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This is a Shakespearean/Elizabethanย theatrical convention involving short comments that reveal a characterโs inner thoughts to the audience, often with comic effect.
ASIDES
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This is a still-in-use ancient Greek theatre that has perfect acoustics.
EPHIDARUS
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This is the name for spectators in Shakespeareโs time who could not afford seats and stood for the entire performance in the open-pit area in front of the stage.
GROUNDLINGS
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In what play does Shakespeare use the word "hand" 27 times?
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will
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The area of the stage closest to the audience in proscenium or thrust staging.