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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.
box set Naturalistic setting of a complete room built from flats with only the side nearest the audience (the fourth wall) missing. A single static box set that represents more than one room is called a COMPOSITE SET (for example if the living room and the kitchen are both on stage permanently).
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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Feb 15, 2022 · Boxes: Tiered-seating located close to and on either side of the stage. Directions: Facing the stage, your right is House Right. Your left is House Left. ↑ Back to top. The...
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house—thus the expression, much loved by theatre managers everywhere—“full house.” Balcony: Strictly speaking, this is the second tier of seating in a theatre, elevated and protruding over the back rows of orchestra or main level seating. Backdrop: A large drapery of painted canvas that provides the rear or upstage masking of a set.
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
BroadwayWorld's new theater dictionary is a glossary to theatre terms from A-Z. ... DEFINITION: A: abstract setting ab-stract set-ting ... The black box is popular because it can be configured in ...
