No, although a black box can be arranged as a thrust (audience on 3 sides). A black box is completely flexible...you can arrange it with audience on 1, 2, 3 or 4 sides. Or you could even put scenes intermingled with audience. That's the beauty of a black box...open to a lot of creativity and different arrangements.
Blended. I was doing it before 'flipped' was coined, so when people started asking me to come speak on flipped classroom, I started using the flipped terminology more. Do u flip?