Theater Vocab Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• wings : the sides of the stage, hidden by curtains and not seen by the audience.
• director : the person who tells the actors where to go and what to do.
• legs : the long, vertical curtains on stage right and left that hide the backstage from the audience.
• stage manager : the person responsible for taking notes during rehearsals and calling cues during the actual show.
• arena : a type of stage with the audience sitting on four sides.
• dionysus : the greek god for whom theatrical celebrations were performed.
• traverse : a type of stage with the audience sitting on two sides.
• ritual : religious _ can be considered one of the origins of theater.
• theme : the main message of a play or story, one of aristotle's six elements of drama.
• the poetics : the title of aristotle's work of theatrical criticism.
• tragedy : derives from the greek words for "goat" and "song."
• orchestra : the part of the amphitheater where the chorus performed.
• athens : city in greece where theater was first institutionalized.
• playwright : the person who writes the script.
• thespis : the first "actor" - he stepped out of the greek chorus.
• cheat out : a term meaning to face your body 3/4 of the way towards the audience.
• sophocles : one of the well-known greek playwrights, he wrote "oedipus rex" and "antigone."
• myth : many early greek dramas have their origin in _ .
• proscenium : the type of stage we have here at alagn.
• curtain call : the term for when everyone bows at the end of a play.
• producer : the person who provides funds for a production.
• thrust : a type of stage with the audience sitting on three sides.
• tetralogy : a four part work, with three connected tragedies and one satyr play.