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19th century concept of a completely realistic performance space that audience look into through a removed/invisible wall (the proscenium plane)
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Fourth wall (realism)
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In dramatic criticism, a category of plays: comedy, tragedy, melodrama, farce
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Genre
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Level part of the stage in front of the scenery, especially in Renaissance stages, which used a slanted floor for forced perspective in scenic area
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Forestage
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Professional theater that is fully taxed and gets its income from ticket sales and related sources
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For-profit
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Point/object that draws the eye of the audience to the stage picture
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Focus
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A minor character intended to set off another character through contrast
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Foil
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A style of theater popular in Europe after WWI and typified by symbolic presentation of meaning, often as viewed from the standpoint of the main character
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Expressionism
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Form of comedy "stuffed" w/ laughs that arise not from verbal wit/human profundity but (usually) mechanics: business, mix-ups, mistaken identities, etc
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Farce
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Visual and spatial surrounding of the play, influenced by such matters as mood and visual meaning
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Environment
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Necessary info about prior events, or a part of a play given over to communicating such info
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Exposition
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Device (usually an object/picture of an object) used as an identifying mark
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Emblem
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A performing group
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Ensemble
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Machine used to thrust objects/people (often dead) from inside the skene into view of audience
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Eccyclema
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Gathering of materials from many sources; mixture of styles and methods
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Eclectic(ism)
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In Greece, religious worship took place in private and at these major public events
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Festivals
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