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Theater Terms Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
- Oval or round stage with seating rising from the center
- Large cloth, often painted, used for creating a picture background on stage
- All stage furnishings, furniture, and things carried onstage
- A frame or arch separating stage from auditorium
- Side pieces such as flats or drops placed just upstage of the proscenium to adjust width of opening
- This fabric drop seems opaque when lit from the front
- Show produced in a small space with limited seating
- Wooden frame covered with cloth
- Italian Renaissance improvisational comedy
- Offstage areas to right and left of acting area
- Narrow bridge near ceiling
- This long piece of wood or pipe helps suspend scenery, lights, curtains
- A French term to denote the young female lead of a play
- Play that treats characters and situations in a humorous way
- Stagehands to raise and lower flown scenery and draperies
- Greek term meaning “God from a machine”
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- Untangling and resolution of plot, from the French
- An opening in the stage floor
- This Greek term refers to an act of excessive pride
- Floor space between front curtain and edge of stage
- This stage has no proscenium arch and has seats on three or four sides
- Area of the stage away from the audience; toward rear of stage
- The offstage waiting room
- Type of drama which uses no words
- Flats or drops behind scenery openings
- Kind of theater: low comedy that mocks a broad topic
- Greek term meaning emotional release
- Where fly rope-and-pulley system is operated
- This term for an actor originated in Greece
- Stage command for actors to take their positions
- Short curtains which mask lighting and flown scenery from audience
- Gradual slope in stage floor height
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