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  2. Wikipedia:WikiProject Stagecraft/Terminology/List of theatre ...

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    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 ...

  3. Glossary of theater terms - Wikipedia

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    Auditorium: The portion of a theater which contains the audience seating. [2] Avant-garde: Experimental or innovative works or people, derived from the French. [2] Balcony: An elevated portion of seating in the back of the auditorium. [1] Curtain Call: At the end of a live performance the cast will come out and do a bow while the audience ...

  4. Outline of theatre - Wikipedia

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    Historic Outdoor Forest Theater in Carmel, California, at sunset. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to theatre: . Theatre – the generic term for the performing arts and a usually collaborative form of fine art involving live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event (such as a story) through acting, singing, and/or dancing before a ...

  5. Theatre - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    B movie B-roll baby plates backlighting backlot background actor See extra. background lighting balloon light barn doors beatscript below-the-line A term derived from the top sheet of a film budget for motion pictures, television programs, industrial films, independent films, student films and documentaries as well as commercials.

  7. Act (drama) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Staging (theatre, film, television) - Wikipedia

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    Staging is the process of selecting, designing, adapting to, or modifying the performance space for a play or film.This includes the use or absence of stagecraft elements as well as the structure of the stage and its components.

  9. Category:Theatre - Wikipedia

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    Theatre or theater (from French "théâtre", from Greek "theatron", θέατρον) is the branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, mime, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts.