Theatre Test 2
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- Seneca
- Tragic playwright
- Flats
- flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background.
- Roman Theatre
- Less influenced by religion
- 364 BCE
- First Roman theatrical performance
- Hand Props
- Props handled by actors
- Cue
- the trigger for an action to be carried out at a specific time
- Magic Sheet
- Paper that outlines lighting cues
- Cue Sheet
- Form that lists cue information
- Scrim
- A curtain made from a semitransparent material that looks solid when lit from the audience side and becomes almost invisible when back lit.
- Terence
- Roman Comic playwright who wrote "The Phormio"
- Cavea
- Audience seating in Roman theatre
- Plautus
- Credited with creation of mistaken identity play
- Cycles
- Religious Plays
- Liturgical Dramas
- Religious Plays
- Euripides
- Greek playwright, wrote Medea and Electra.
- Set Props
- Things like furniture that aren't part of the set.
- Pulpitum
- Raised stage in Roman theatre
- Trope
- A common theme
- Traps
- Openings in the floor
- Mystery Plays
- Among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe.
- 3000 People
- Capacity of The Globe
- 45
- Number of Greek plays that survived
- Facade
- A face of doors that Romans performed in front of.
- Purple robe
- Character is young
- Tech Rehearsal
- The technical rehearsal or tech rehearsal is a rehearsal that focuses on the technological aspects of the performance, in theatrical, musical, and filmed entertainment.
- Dress Rehearsal
- a rehearsal or series of rehearsals in which the ensemble dresses as they will dress at the performance for the audience. The entire performance will be run from beginning to end, exactly as the real performances will be, including pauses for intermissions.
- Hanging
- Putting the lights into their positions
- Aeschylus
- Greek playwright, father of tragedy. Wrote Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides
- Cyclorama
- A very large piece of white fabric, tensioned on two or more sides, which covers the entire back wall of the stage.
- Vomitories
- Roman theatre entry/escape ways
- Gel
- A color filters put in front of spotlights or floodlights to give the light beam a specific hue.
- The Brother Menaechmus
- Twin brothers reunited after much confusion
- Props
- The visual elements of a scene other than the set.
- Yellow robe
- Character is a woman
- Seneca
- Elizabethan tragedies often identified like his style
- Silhouette
- A subject with no key light, and a brightly illuminated background.
- Dry Tech Rehearsal
- a rehearsal without the performers, where lights, sounds, etc. are checked.
- The Phormio
- Wily a servant tricks 2 stodgy fathers into accepting their son's romantic choices
- Horace
- Influenced Italian Renaissance
- Gobo
- A piece of metal or glass, which fits into the gate of a light and projects a pattern onto the set.
- Yellow tassel
- Character is a God
- Hrotsvitha
- Female Nun playwright
- City Dionysia
- festival held in Athens, which includes a tragedy competition.
- Dionysus
- Greek God of Nature, Wine, and Fertility
- 240 BCE
- Year Roman theatre started
- Focus
- Using lights to direct the audience's attention to an area of the stage or distracting them from another.
- Horace
- Roman Poet, wrote The Art of Poetry
- Miracle Plays
- Religious Plays