Theatre

Theatre

Terms of or in relation to a collaborative form of fine art which uses live performances to express fictional or non-fictional stories to an audience in a particular place.

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Jongleurs

Performing arts; Theatre

Itinerant entertainers of the mediaeval period in Europe. The term embraces ballad-singers, acrobats, jugglers, and animal trainers.

Itinerant open-air street players such as jugglers, conjurers or acrobats. May have derived from the term "buskin", which referred to the long boot worn by actors in Greek tragedy, and gradually came ...

Fabula

Performing arts; Theatre

Generic Latin term for a play. In Rome the term included several types of plays including: the fabula atellanae, or atellan farce, an early form of folk-based drama; fabula palliata, which were based ...

Thespis

Performing arts; Theatre

Greek poet from Icaria in Attica, usually considered the founder of drama, since he was the first to use an actor in his works, in addition to the chorus and its leader. He won the first Dionysian ...

Foot iron

Performing arts; Theatre

Hardware mounted on the stage floor, that accomodates a stage screw for purposes of securing scenery to the stage.

Mask

Performing arts; Theatre

Head-dress used to cover the face and enable the wearer to portray a particular character or animal. In theater, the term often refers to the masks worn by actors in Greek tragedy. Some accounts, ...

Pageant

Performing arts; Theatre

In mediaeval times the word referred to the carts which were decorated by various guilds and used in processions on holidays. These carts were basically portable stages upon which stylized scenes ...