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Nonmediated or live action theatre - ANSWER✔✔theatre that is not observed
through an electronic medium
Regional theatres - ANSWER✔✔permanent, professional, nonprofit theatres
offering first class productions to their audiences
Community theatre - ANSWER✔✔semi professional and experienced amateur
groups that appeal to their specific audiences
Site specific theatre - ANSWER✔✔theatre presented in a nontraditional setting so
that the chosen environment helps illuminate the text
Performance art - ANSWER✔✔most often refers to a solo performance created by
the performer but also can be a work that mixes visual arts, dance, film, and/or
music
Visual arts - ANSWER✔✔these include painting, sculpture, architecture, and
photography
Performing arts - ANSWER✔✔these include theatre, dance, opera, and music,
where there are live performers and audience members
Spatial arts - ANSWER✔✔art forms that exist in space and are created to last over
time
,Temporal art - ANSWER✔✔art forms that exist for only a specific period of time
Elements of theatre - ANSWER✔✔audience, performers, script, director, theatre
space, design elements
Script - ANSWER✔✔the blueprint for a production, the material staged by the
various theatre artists
The willing suspension of disbelief - ANSWER✔✔the audience's desire to believe
in the reality of what is happening onstage
Aesthetic distance - ANSWER✔✔the separation of audience member from the
performance or artwork to experience its aesthetic qualities
Critic - ANSWER✔✔someone who observes a production and then analyzes and
comments on it
Reviewer - ANSWER✔✔a type of critic who reports on a production and gives
brief opinion about whether or not it is worth seeing
Dramaturg - ANSWER✔✔the individual works on literary and historical issues
with members of the artistic team mounting a theatre production
Plot - ANSWER✔✔a selection and arrangement of scenes from a story for
presentation on stage
, Story - ANSWER✔✔a full account of an event or series of events, usually in
chronological order
Action - ANSWER✔✔according to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, a sequence of
events linked by cause and effect, with a beginning, middle, and end; said by
Aristotle to be the best way to unify a play; more generally, the central, unifying
conflict and movement through a drama
Conflict - ANSWER✔✔tension between two or more characters that leads to crisis
or climax; a fundamental struggle or imbalance-- involving ideologies, actions,
personalities, etc.-- underlying a play
Strongly opposed forces - ANSWER✔✔the people conflict in a play that are
fiercely determined to achieve their goals
Balance of forces - ANSWER✔✔the people or forces in conflict must be more or
less evenly matched
Obstacles - ANSWER✔✔that which delays or prevents by achieving of a goal by a
character; an obstacle creates complication and conflict
Complication - ANSWER✔✔introduction, in a play, of a new force that creates a
new balance of power and entails a delay in reaching the climax
Crisis - ANSWER✔✔point within a play when the action reaches an important
confrontation or takes a critical turn; in the tradition of the well made play, a drama
includes a series of crises that lead to the final crisis, known as the climax
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