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Box set A set with three walls leaving the fourth wall to be imagined. The box set can represent a real room with doors and windows that work. Brechtian Drama influenced by the theory and practice of the twentieth century German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht.
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Box set A set with three walls leaving the fourth wall to be imagined. The box set can represent a real room with doors and windows that work. Business Physical activity used to show character, fill a pause in dialogue, or establish a scene. It is often unscripted or improvised and sometimes comic in intention. A playwright
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GLOSSARY OF COMMON THEATRE TERMS visible. Balancing lighting levels behind and in front of the scrim is an effective way to create interesting visual effects and transitions. Set: The scenery for a scene or entire production. In the latter case it is often known as a “unit set”
BOX SET - An interior set with three walls and sometimes a ceiling. Usually the only access or egress off or on the stage is through a practical set door. BREAKAWAY SCENERY - Scenery designed to break or alter on cue and in full view of the audience. BRING IT IN - To lower a light bar, pipe batten or scenery from the fly gallery.
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As a service to the theatre community, AACT provides over 1000 definitions of theatrical terms. Fully searchable, our glossary is helpful for technical staff, directors, actors, producers, or anyone wanting to better understand the inner workings of theatre.
TermDefinitionABOVE1) Elizabethan stage directions for a ...ABSTRACT SETTINGA stage setting that is stylized rather ...ACCENT LIGHTINGLighting that stresses certain stage ...ACNAdvanced Control Network. Show control ...box office: an enclosed area, usually found in or ad-joining the lobby of a theater, where tickets are sold; how well or poorly a production performs “at the box office” indicates a monetary measure of the success of ticket sales. box set: a set with three walls and a ceiling, leaving the fourth wall to be imagined by the actors. The box set
amateur theatre, as the "prompt copy." Box Office The place where the tickets are sold. Also used colloquially to mean the size of the audience ("What's the box office like tonight?") Box Set A set (qv) which consists of three walls, around a proscenium arch (qv) stage. The proscenium opening is the fourth wall. Also known as a "room set". Call
