Theatre History Vocabulary lll

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STAR SYSTEM: The method of creating, promoting and exploiting stars in Hollywood films.
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SARAH BERNHARDT: French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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MOSCOW ART THEATRE: A theatre company in Moscow; Founded by Konstantin Stanislavski.
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NATURALISM: A style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.
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MAGIC "IF": The ability to imagine oneself in a set of fictional circumstances and their consequences.
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HENRIK IBSEN: Norwegian playwright and theatre director.
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FREYTAG'S PYRAMID: A dramatic structure composed of seven key steps.
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FOURTH WALL: A performance convention in which an invisible, imagined wall separates actors from the audience.
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ANTON CHEKHOV: Russian playwright and short-story writer