Theatre

setting tries to re-create a specific location.

Setting that tends to be more conceptual than literal

A 3D construction of interconnected hard covered "flats" which was then filled with real furniture and real properties taken from the ordinary real-world environment

an old method, wings are legs painted like drops. To change the scene, one set of wings, drop, and border are flown out and another set flown in. This system is still common in opera and ballet.

Surfaces in scenery

A covering of the face

Curtain that comes down and raises between Acts of a play

A theatrical fabric woven so finely that when lit from the wrong it appears opaque and when lit from the front it appears transparent

A flat piece of scenery hung from the fly gallery, which can drop into place by a flying system

The operating are fro flying scenery, where fly ropes are tired off or where ropes in a counterweight system are clamped in a fix position

The furniture and handheld objects used in play productions

The layout showing the positions where stage lights are to be hung and how they are wired into the numbered electrical circuits of the theater facility

A numbered list of lighting, sound, or scene shift changes coordinated with precise moments marked in the stage manager's prompt book

Has a sharply defined conical shape and is the instrument of choice for intense, hard edged, and closely focused lighting

Has a generally less defined and less shapeable beam and is most often used for general lighting, backlights, and downlights

http://masterthemusic.com/EEimages/followspot.gifA swivel mounted spotlight that can be pointed in any direction by an operator

Sheets placed over a light to change the color of the lighting

Filters placed inside lighting instruments to create patterns that can be projected onto floors and walls to give added texture

A character recognizable mainly for his or her conformity to a standard dramatic stereotype. (The wily servant, the braggart soldier, the innocent virgin)

Quick sketches of costume designs

Costume drawings, first in black and white and then in color supplemented with notes about the costumes

Costumes that give the actors a feeling how how moving in their real costumes will be

When the actors show how they look in costume to the director and others

When the actors don costumes and makeup for the first time

is "group sharing" The audience participates, creates and improvises the action of the ritual.

A stylized form of acting without words

The principal character in a Noh play

The secondary character in Noh

in Habuki theatre, a long narrow runway leading from the stage to a door at the back of the auditorium that is used for highly theatrical entrances and exists right through the audience

the name for the bridge-like section connecting the main stage protruding into the kensho and connecting the stage.It is not just a walkway, but is also used for example as the metaphorical pathway between the “spirit world,” represented by the offstage area, and the “temporal world,” represented by the main stage.

Room in which actors prepare

three-stringed musical instrument played with a plectrum called a bachi.

male actors who impersonate women in Japanese kabuki theatre.

a powerful and emotional pose struck by an actor, who then freezes for a moment, is a distinctive element of aragoto Kabuki

nreferencing a range of beliefs and practices regarding communication with the spiritual world

is a symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism

is a musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings. Vocalists may also be included.

a title used in traditional Japanese arts such as noh, jōruri, kabuki, and sekkyo-bushi

4 Character types in Noh Theatre

s a highly stylized classical Indian dance-drama noted for the attractive make-up of characters, elaborate costumes, detailed gestures and well-defined body movements presented in tune with the anchor playback music and complementary percussion