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Center Stage: The center of the playing (performance) area. Center Line: An imaginary reference line on the playing area that indicates the exact center of the stage, travelling from up to downstage. Onstage: The portion of the playing area visible to the audience. Offstage: The area surrounding the playing space not visible to the audience.
Historic Outdoor Forest Theater in Carmel, California, at sunset. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to theatre: . Theatre – the generic term for the performing arts and a usually collaborative form of fine art involving live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event (such as a story) through acting, singing, and/or dancing before a ...
Parascenium: in a Greek theatre, the wall on either side of the stage, reaching from the back wall to the orchestra. Parquet: ground floor of a theatre, often main seating section, directly in front of the stage. Part: a character; the portion of the script intended for one character. Parterre: the upper part of the main seating. Usually behind ...
An act is a major division of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, ballet, or musical theatre, consisting of one or more scenes. [1] [2] The term can either refer to a conscious division placed within a work by a playwright (usually itself made up of multiple scenes) [3] or a unit of analysis for dividing a dramatic work into sequences.
A theater, or playhouse, is a structure where theatrical works, performing arts, and musical concerts are presented. The theater building serves to define the performance and audience spaces. The facility usually is organized to provide support areas for performers, the technical crew and the audience members, as well as the stage where the ...
A list of theater terms, and brief descriptions, listed in alphabetical order. Act: A division of a play, may be further broken down into "scenes". Also, what the performers do on-stage. [1] Ad-lib: When a performer improvises line on-stage. Derived from ad libitum (Latin). [1]
Devised theatre – frequently called collective creation – is a method of theatre-making in which the script or (if it is a predominantly physical work) performance score originates from collaborative, often improvisatory work by a performing ensemble. The ensemble is typically made up of actors, but other categories of theatre practitioners ...
Pages from the American actress Charlotte Cushman's prompt-book for a production of Hamlet at the Washington Theater, 1861. The prompt book, also called transcript, the bible or sometimes simply the book, is the copy of a production script that contains the information necessary to create a theatrical production from the ground up.