the drama

Roget-categorie 599

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#599. The Drama

zelfstandig naamwoord

the drama, the stage, the theater, the play — film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography — theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus^†, Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis.
play, drama, stage play, piece [Fr.], five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta^†, lever de rideau [Fr.], interlude, afterpiece^†, exode^†, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta^†, harlequinade^†, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe [Fr.], ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame [Fr.] — melodrama, melodrame^† — comidie larmoyante [Fr.], sensation drama — tragicomedy, farcical-comedy — monodrame monologue — duologue trilogy^† — charade, proverbs — mystery, miracle play — musical, musical comedy.
[movies] western, horse opera — flick [Coll.] — spy film, love story, adventure film, documentary, nature film — pornographic film, smoker, skin flick, X-rated film.
act, scene, tableau — induction, introduction — prologue, epilogue — libretto.
performance, representation, mise en scene [Fr.], stagery^†, jeu de theatre [Fr.] — acting — gesture etc. 550 — impersonation etc. 554 — stage business, gag, buffoonery.
light comedy, genteel comedy, low comedy.
theater — playhouse, opera house — house — music hall — amphitheater, circus, hippodrome, theater in the round — puppet show, fantoccini^† — marionettes, Punch and Judy.
auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery, parquet — greenroom, coulisses [Fr.].
flat — drop, drop scene — wing, screen, side scene — transformation scene, curtain, act drop — proscenium.
stage, scene, scenery, the boards — trap, mezzanine floor — flies — floats, footlights — offstage — orchestra.
theatrical costume, theatrical properties.
movie studio, back lot, on location.
part, role, character, dramatis personae [Lat.] — repertoire.
actor, thespian, player — method actor — stage player, strolling player — stager, performer — mime, mimer^† — artists — comedian, tragedian — tragedienne, Roscius — star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol — supporting actor, supporting cast — ham, hamfatter [Slang] — masker^†.
pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo^†, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine — punchinello^† — pulcinello^†, pulcinella^† — extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo appearance — mute, figurante^†, general utility — super, supernumerary.
company — first tragedian, prima donna [Sp.], protagonist — jeune premier [Fr.] — debutant, debutante [Fr.] — light comedian, genteel comedian, low comedian — walking gentleman, amoroso^†, heavy father, ingenue [Fr.], jeune veuve [Fr.].
mummer, guiser^†, guisard^†, gysart^†, masque.
mountebank, Jack Pudding — tumbler, posture master, acrobat — contortionist — ballet dancer, ballet girl — chorus singer — coryphee danseuse [Fr.].
property man, costumier, machinist — prompter, call boy — manager — director, stage manager, acting manager.
producer, entrepreneur, impresario — backer, investor, angel [Fig.].
dramatic author, dramatic writer — play writer, playwright — dramatist, mimographer^†.

werkwoord

act, play, perform — put on the stage — personate etc. 554 — mimic etc. (imitate) 19 — enact — play a part, act a part, go through a part, perform a part — rehearse, spout, gag, rant — strut and fret one's hour upon a stage —" tread the boards, tread the stage — come out — star it.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

dramatic — theatric, theatrical — scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined^†, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic — stagy.

bijwoord

on the stage, on the boards — on film — before the floats, before an audience — behind the scenes.

uitdrukking

fere totus mundus exercet histrionem [Lat.] [Petronius Arbiter]; suit the action to the word, the word to the suit the action to the word, the word to the action" [Hamlet]; the play's the thing" [Hamlet]; to wake the soul by tender strokes of art" [Pope].

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