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Down: 1) A festival in ancient Athens that became a major event for the presentation of drama. 2) The division of dramas into categories such as tragedy and comedy as they represent different kinds of human experience.3) The spontaneous invention of actors used to explore text, character, or situation.4) A ceremony, frequently religious, that expresses community values or beliefs through performance.5) The area of the stage farthest away from the audience.6) The basic diagram for the placement of furniture, walls, doors, and levels such as stairs.7) A sequence of ritual ceremonies performed by the Hopi people of American Southwest that promotes the welfare of their community.8) Known as the center of the city's main theatre and entertainment section; home to the largest concentration of professional theatres in NYC.9) A theatre practitioner concerned with selecting plays for a theatre company, working with playwrights on the development of new scripts, and working with directors on research issues.10) " the song of a goat" a serious play or drama typically dealing with the problems of a central character, leading to an unhappy or disastrous ending.12) The movement of actors and the unfolding of a play's events.13) Elements of dramatic construction and performance accepted by theatre practitioners and audience members in a given community that facilitate the presentation of plays.14) The group effort required to produce theatre, as opposed to the separate work of individuals.15) An extreme form of comedy involving challenges to authority that frequently result in anarchy.17) The backbone of a play.18) Used as a close study of character psychology to determine the character's sequence of intentions or objectives.19) A long speech given by one speaker.20) The live presentation of a play.23) A theatre space in which the audience is placed on three sides of stage.24) A group of actors who work closely together and share the responsibility for the performance of a play.26) Having to do with drama; a term used for "actor" taken from the name of Thespis.27) The imitation of a style of writing for comic effect or ridicule.28) A linguistic form of parody.29) A fundamental device for establishing characters that covers the human face and has been in dramatic presentations throughout the world since the beginning of theatre.31) The central artist of the theatre who creates a dramatic story on the stage through words and gestures.32) The process of exploration and repetition used to prepare a play for public presentation.33) A theatre in which the audience surrounds the stage on all sides.37) The front of the stage or area of the stage closest to the audience.43) The world of this type of acting, or the world of acting in general; the art itself.46) The dialogue, stage directions, and character descriptions that together constitute the printed text of a play.47) The process through which actors seeking roles in a play or positions with a theatre company present monologues or scene readings for a director.51) A group of about fifteen or more actors who chanted lines in unison and sometimes functioned as a character in the play and provided commentary on the dramatic situations.52) A particular moment in the performance of a play.55) The sequence of actions that determines what happens in a play.56) The line of dialogue, musical moment, or piece of stage action that is the signal for a character entrance or any change in lights or scenery. Across: 4) The written text of a play as it is constructed by the playwright.11) Based off of a psychological investigation of characters and actor identification with character.16)  The central topic, subject, or concept the director is trying to point out, not to be confused with whatever message, moral, or commentary it may send or be interpreted as sending regarding said concept.18) A genre that presents the conflict between good and evil.21) A form of theatre in which dialogue, singing, and dance are integrated to communicate character and plot.22) Has the primary responsibility for the interpretation of a play.25) The Greek god of fertility/wine in whose honor plays were performed in ancient Greece.30) The dialogue of a play written from multiple points of view of the characters.34) A theatrical style that creates an illusion of daily life through the presentation of a detailed environment, natural actions, and language that sounds as if it were overheard in ordinary circumstances.35) A dramatic genre in which the perspective shifts between serious and comic perspectives.36) The artistic expression formulated over many years that has precise meaning for a particular community.38) The reading and discussion of a play done by the cast and the director at the beginning of the rehearsal process.39) A flexible theatre space in which the stage space and the configuration of the audience space can be changed from production to production 40) The people in a play41) To engage in the presentation of theatre, dance, or music.42) The visual elements of a performance, including scenery, lights, costumes, and the movement of actors.44) Plays that focus on lack of meaning in human existence.45) A reciprocal conversation between two or more persons; the speaking lines of a script.48) The release of emotion experienced by audience members watching a play.49) To play a role on the stage in front of an audience.50) A rectangular theatre with the stage at one end of the rectangle.53) The wheeling cart on which the bodies of dead characters were displayed in Greek tragedy.54) A drama or narrative with a happy or non-tragic ending.57) All of the movement of the actors on the stage during a play.58) The theatre artist responsible for interpreting plays through costumes created for the actors.
 

 

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