acting troupes
Performing drama collectives
Acting troupes are organized groups of performers who work together to stage theatrical productions.
Unlike a cast assembled for a single show, a troupe typically stays together over time, touring or maintaining a regular performance schedule.
The term carries slightly old-fashioned or romantic connotations, evoking images of traveling players or repertory companies.
The acting troupe performed Shakespeare in small towns throughout the region.
- Greek chorusMasked performers providing commentary
- directorOne who leads
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- comedyWork meant to amuse
- ensemble castMultiple principal performers equally
off-Broadway · stage manager · stock company · summer stock · community theater · playwright · props · stage fright · opening night · understudy · regional theater · farce · Elizabethan theater · traveling players · musical theater · playbill · repertory company · costume designer
- amateur theatercommunity theater, amateur dramatics, drama clubs, high school drama, school plays
- theater historyGreek tragedy, vaudeville, William Shakespeare, Drury Lane, Christopher Marlowe
- Early TheaterShakespeare, Elizabethan theatre, Globe Theatre, Marlowe, morality plays
- performing arts organizationschoral societies, drama clubs, dramatic societies
- Tudor literatureShakespeare, sonnets, Elizabethan drama, blank verse, Spenser
- ShakespeareRomeo, Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello
acting troupesaudiences
Assembled viewers or listeners
spectators · theatergoers · playgoers · viewers · the house
acting troupesstagehands
Backstage technical workers
spectators · production teams · sound engineers · set designers · theatergoers
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