Across
- 8. The power dynamic between two characters.
- 10. irony The audience know more than the characters on stage.
- 12. The character portrayed by an actor in a drama.
- 13. Brechtian technique in which a gesture represents a social or political attitude rather than an emotion.
- 16. The opponent or adversary of the hero or main character of a drama.
- 19. The group of performers who sang and danced between episodes, narrated off-stage action, and commented on events.
- 20. The internal or external struggle between opposing forces, ideas, or interests that creates dramatic tension.
- 21. A feeling of uncertainty as to the outcome, used to build interest and excitement on the part of the audience.
- 23. Change in pitch of the voice, specifically the way the voice rises and falls.
- 25. Variations in levels of energy, physical movement, pace or emotional intensity in a scene.
- 26. Dynamic use of opposites or significant differences to create dramatic effect.
- 28. The movement or development of the plot or story in a play.
- 30. The tempo, pace or regular pattern of the work.
- 33. The way in which an actor uses body language to convey character and intention.
- 35. A speech in which an actor speaks the inner thoughts of his/her character aloud for the audience to share.
- 36. A style of drama that developed in the late nineteenth century as a way to portray reality on stage.
- 38. A person portrayed in a scripted or devised play, novel, or other artistic piece.
- 44. irony A discrepancy between what is expected and what actually happens.
- 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.
- 50. The way that scenery, décor, lighting, sound, props, costume, etc. have been deployed in the playing area to tell the story.
- 52. elements A general term to refer to props, costume, set, lighting and sound.
- 53. Theatre that draws attention to its own theatricality in any way.
- 55. The actor’s focus.
- 57. In theatre, a focus on the very simplest use of design with as few elements as possible.
- 59. The reason(s) for a character’s behaviour; an incentive or inducement for further action for a character.
- 60. Clarity or distinctness of speech.
- 61. The person responsible for deciding the artistic interpretation of a performance of a play
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- 1. The main character or hero in a play or other literary work.
- 2. The time during which something continues.
- 3. The action or relationship between two or more characters.
- 4. Drama influenced by the theory and practice of the twentieth century German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht.
- 5. The particular level (high or low) of a voice.
- 6. The physical distances between actors on a stage that communicates the relationship between different characters.
- 7. A traditional term used to describe the path traced by an actor’s movement on stage, including entrances and exits.
- 9. A general term for the choices made by directors and actors about using or adapting performance spaces
- 11. The part of a play that introduces the theme, main characters and current situation in the story.
- 14. effects Visual or sound effects used to enhance a theatrical performance.
- 15. relief A break in the tension of a play provided by a comic character, a comic episode, or even a comic line.
- 17. Movement, passage or change from one act, scene, section, position, state, concept, etc., to another.
- 18. Lines spoken by an actor to the audience that are not supposed to be overheard by other characters on stage.
- 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.
- 24. The height or the positioning of a character compared to others.
- 27. What a character is really thinking or feeling when they say particular words.
- 29. In a non-linear plot, to go back in time to a previous event.
- 31. Any element of the drama that is used repeatedly to convey symbolic meaning.
- 32. irony A writer or speaker says one thing and means something else
- 34. A visual clue that conveys a particular meaning to an audience. E.g. luggage to show travel
- 37. Rate of movement or speed of action, or the vocal delivery of the text.
- 39. An approach to theatre-making that focuses on the combined output of all the members of a group of performers working together.
- 40. Any article used as part of a dramatic production that is not costume or set.
- 41. A flat surface, the width of the stage, on which a scenic design is painted or projected.
- 42. A long speech made by one actor.
- 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.
- 45. Physical alignment of a performer’s body, or a physical stance taken by a performer.
- 46. A peculiarity of speech or behaviour.
- 47. wall The illusion of an invisible wall of a set through which the audience sees the action of the play.
- 48. A play that has been created using material from another artistic medium such as a novel, short story or poem.
- 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.
- 54. expression How an actor uses his or her voice to convey character.
- 56. A self-contained unit within a play, with its own structure.
- 58. The atmosphere or feeling of a performance.