(S24) Ancient Greek and Elizabethan Theatre + Th ...

The area of the stage closest to the audience in proscenium or thrust staging.

These are areas on the periphery of the playing area that can be masked to hide actors, technicians, props, and scenery.

This is the area to the actor’s right when standing center stage, facing the audience on a proscenium or thrust stage.

Name six conventions of Ancient Greek drama.

This is a moment during a play that deliberately draws attention to the craft of performance (i.e. the art of theatre), and is a convention Shakespeare used extensively in his plays to promote his artform.

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.

In what play does Shakespeare use the word "hand" 27 times?

This is the name for spectators in Shakespeare’s time who could not afford seats and stood for the entire performance in the open-pit area in front of the stage.

This is the area of the stage farthest from the audience in proscenium or thrust staging.

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.

This is a booth where theatre tickets are sold.

In proscenium theatres, these are the private seating areas set in the balcony above the orchestra.

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.

These are very high ceilings behind the proscenium arch of a theatre used to house scenery that is “flown” up and down on a system of pulleys to change the sets.

This is a Shakespearean/Elizabethan theatrical convention involving short comments that reveal a character’s inner thoughts to the audience, often with comic effect.

This is a still-in-use ancient Greek theatre that has perfect acoustics.

This is a Shakespearean/Elizabethan theatrical convention involving a lengthy solo speech through which a character reveals an interior state of mind.