Intro to Theatre:
Model for Comparing Arts: Artist, Medium Audience
Artist
- actor (only necessary artist; interpretive)
- playwright (primary)
- designers (interpretive artist)
- director (interpretive)
- dramaturg
Medium
- actors (medium is self)
- dialogue
- sets, lights, costume
- theatre space
Audience
- live
- group
- feedback cycle with performers
For Theatre Tour: Alice Austin is a Proscenium theatre
- maximum spactacle
- minimal audience/actor proximity
Black Box is a flexible theatre, capable
of arrangement as
- open theatre (modified proscenium:
no arch)
- thrust stage
- arena theatre
- environmental
Proscenium terms:
house (left and right)
stage (up, down, left, and right)
rake
proscenium arch
apron
wings
traps
fly loft
fly rail
main drape
teasers: legs and borders
Scenery terms:
drop
cyclorama
scrim
flat
platform
wagon
Lighting terms:
pipes: batten and tree
instrument
cable
patch panel
dimmer board
General theatre structures:
ghost light
catwalk
sound and light booths
light cage
green room
costume, scene, paint, and properties shops
storage spaces for costumes/set/props
dressing and makeup rooms
trap room
box office
foyer
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