| actor | A person who performs a role in a play or film. (1-6)
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| acts | A lengthy segment of a play, comprising several scenes. (1-8)
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| aside | Lines spoken by a character directly to the audience that the other characters pretend they don't hear. (1-8)
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| audience | One or more persons gathered to participate in a performance. (1-6)
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| convention | A rule or procedure in the theatre that is understood by actors and audience alike, in the same way that the rules of a sport are understood; the "convention of the fourth wall" is a good example. (1-8)
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| convention of the fourth wall | The mutual understanding between audience and performers that there is an invisible "fourth wall" at the front of the stage and that the audience pretends the actors do not know it is there and the actors pretend they don't know the audience is present; this convention developed with the style of Realism and the use of a box set. (1-9)
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| curtain call | A post-performance ritual in which the actors bow and the audience applauds. (1-8)
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| empathy | The human capacity for experiencing another's emotion. (1-12)
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| herd animals | Animals that live in a group; in some ways, humans are "herd animals." (1-6)
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| live event | Theatre that happens when the audience is present; opposite of a recorded event. (1-5)
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| particular place | A unique place where theatre is performed live, at a particular time. (1-6)
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| particular time | A unique time when theatre is performed live, at a particular place. (1-6)
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| present tense | The time when a live theatre event is experienced by an audience. (1-8)
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| scene | A short segment of the plot of a play. (1-8)
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| structure | Description of the arrangement of the incidents of a play's plot. (1-8)
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| virtual place | The fictional place in which the action of a play takes place. (1-9)
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| virtual time | The fictional time in which the action of a play takes place. (1-9)
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| willing suspension of disbelief | A phrase coined by the nineteenth-century English poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge to explain the convention by which an audience can enjoy a theatrical performance by knowingly setting aside its objectivity. (1-8)
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