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A list of theater terms, and brief descriptions, listed in alphabetical order. Act: A division of a play, may be further broken down into "scenes". Also, what the performers do on-stage. [1] Ad-lib: When a performer improvises line on-stage. Derived from ad libitum (Latin). [1] Aisle: An open space amongst seating for passage. [2]
Parascenium: in a Greek theatre, the wall on either side of the stage, reaching from the back wall to the orchestra. Parquet: ground floor of a theatre, often main seating section, directly in front of the stage. Part: a character; the portion of the script intended for one character. Parterre: the upper part of the main seating. Usually behind ...
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A large, generally white or pale blue, wall or drop upstage in a theater, used when lit to represent Sky, a Setting, or a Horizon. Cyclorama Light, Cyc Light lighting instrument typically made up of multiple cells on separate electrical circuits.
Theatre or theater [a] is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
An act is a major division of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, ballet, or musical theatre, consisting of one or more scenes. [1] [2] The term can either refer to a conscious division placed within a work by a playwright (usually itself made up of multiple scenes) [3] or a unit of analysis for dividing a dramatic work into sequences.
In proscenium theaters, drapes are typically suspended from battens and can be controlled by a fly system (i.e., they are "flown," in theater terminology). When a drape is flown, the task of adjusting its height for best masking effect is simplified and, in the case of a drape that must be moved during a performance, this enables the drape to ...
The prompter (sometimes prompt) in a theatre is a person who prompts or cues actors when they forget their lines or neglect to move on the stage to where they are supposed to be situated. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The role of the souffleur, or prompter, reaches back to the medieval theater, [ 4 ] but has disappeared in countries like Britain, the ...