Drama Techniques

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  1. 8. The power dynamic between two characters.
  2. 10. irony The audience know more than the characters on stage.
  3. 12. The character portrayed by an actor in a drama.
  4. 13. Brechtian technique in which a gesture represents a social or political attitude rather than an emotion.
  5. 16. The opponent or adversary of the hero or main character of a drama.
  6. 19. The group of performers who sang and danced between episodes, narrated off-stage action, and commented on events.
  7. 20. The internal or external struggle between opposing forces, ideas, or interests that creates dramatic tension.
  8. 21. A feeling of uncertainty as to the outcome, used to build interest and excitement on the part of the audience.
  9. 23. Change in pitch of the voice, specifically the way the voice rises and falls.
  10. 25. Variations in levels of energy, physical movement, pace or emotional intensity in a scene.
  11. 26. Dynamic use of opposites or significant differences to create dramatic effect.
  12. 28. The movement or development of the plot or story in a play.
  13. 30. The tempo, pace or regular pattern of the work.
  14. 33. The way in which an actor uses body language to convey character and intention.
  15. 35. A speech in which an actor speaks the inner thoughts of his/her character aloud for the audience to share.
  16. 36. A style of drama that developed in the late nineteenth century as a way to portray reality on stage.
  17. 38. A person portrayed in a scripted or devised play, novel, or other artistic piece.
  18. 44. irony A discrepancy between what is expected and what actually happens.
  19. 49. ex machina A person, object or event that appears suddenly and without prior introduction at the play’s climax and saves the situation, often implausibly.
  20. 50. The way that scenery, décor, lighting, sound, props, costume, etc. have been deployed in the playing area to tell the story.
  21. 52. elements A general term to refer to props, costume, set, lighting and sound.
  22. 53. Theatre that draws attention to its own theatricality in any way.
  23. 55. The actor’s focus.
  24. 57. In theatre, a focus on the very simplest use of design with as few elements as possible.
  25. 59. The reason(s) for a character’s behaviour; an incentive or inducement for further action for a character.
  26. 60. Clarity or distinctness of speech.
  27. 61. The person responsible for deciding the artistic interpretation of a performance of a play
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  1. 1. The main character or hero in a play or other literary work.
  2. 2. The time during which something continues.
  3. 3. The action or relationship between two or more characters.
  4. 4. Drama influenced by the theory and practice of the twentieth century German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht.
  5. 5. The particular level (high or low) of a voice.
  6. 6. The physical distances between actors on a stage that communicates the relationship between different characters.
  7. 7. A traditional term used to describe the path traced by an actor’s movement on stage, including entrances and exits.
  8. 9. A general term for the choices made by directors and actors about using or adapting performance spaces
  9. 11. The part of a play that introduces the theme, main characters and current situation in the story.
  10. 14. effects Visual or sound effects used to enhance a theatrical performance.
  11. 15. relief A break in the tension of a play provided by a comic character, a comic episode, or even a comic line.
  12. 17. Movement, passage or change from one act, scene, section, position, state, concept, etc., to another.
  13. 18. Lines spoken by an actor to the audience that are not supposed to be overheard by other characters on stage.
  14. 22. One aspect of Aristotle’s theory of tragedy, which attempts to describe the feeling of release felt by the audience at the end of a tragedy.
  15. 24. The height or the positioning of a character compared to others.
  16. 27. What a character is really thinking or feeling when they say particular words.
  17. 29. In a non-linear plot, to go back in time to a previous event.
  18. 31. Any element of the drama that is used repeatedly to convey symbolic meaning.
  19. 32. irony A writer or speaker says one thing and means something else
  20. 34. A visual clue that conveys a particular meaning to an audience. E.g. luggage to show travel
  21. 37. Rate of movement or speed of action, or the vocal delivery of the text.
  22. 39. An approach to theatre-making that focuses on the combined output of all the members of a group of performers working together.
  23. 40. Any article used as part of a dramatic production that is not costume or set.
  24. 41. A flat surface, the width of the stage, on which a scenic design is painted or projected.
  25. 42. A long speech made by one actor.
  26. 43. The point of greatest intensity in a series or progression of events in a play, often forming the turning point of the plot and leading to some kind of resolution.
  27. 45. Physical alignment of a performer’s body, or a physical stance taken by a performer.
  28. 46. A peculiarity of speech or behaviour.
  29. 47. wall The illusion of an invisible wall of a set through which the audience sees the action of the play.
  30. 48. A play that has been created using material from another artistic medium such as a novel, short story or poem.
  31. 51. effect Theatrical techniques designed to remind the audience that they are watching a play, and so distance them from identifying emotionally with the characters and events depicted.
  32. 54. expression How an actor uses his or her voice to convey character.
  33. 56. A self-contained unit within a play, with its own structure.
  34. 58. The atmosphere or feeling of a performance.