Acting
Stage and Script
Tech
Superstitions
Vocabulary
100

Having one foot towards your partner and the other towards the audience in a scene.

Cheating out.

100

You are standing center stage then move to your left, where are you now?

Stage left.

100

Colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel and when viewed together they are aesthetically pleasing.

Analogous Colors. 

100

what do we call the Shakespeare play you cannot name in the theater.

The Scottish Play

100

This is what actors do when they create a dramatic scene spontaneously, without planning.

Improv. 

200

What is blocking?

The movement or choreography you perform on stage.

200

When writing a script, what does italicize text mean? 

Stage directions.

200

Areas to the right and left of the stage

wings

200

You do not say "GOOD LUCK" to an actor you say...

Break a leg

200

The words that are spoken in a play; a conversation between 2 or more characters.

Dialogue 

300

You must____________your voice so the audience can hear you.

project
300

On the stage, the area closet to the audience is___________and the area furthest away from the audience is_________________.

Downstage and upstage.

300

The furniture on stage is called the... 

set

300

The light left on when everyone has left the theater

Ghost light

300

All the people that participate in the making of a play.

Ensemble, trope, or company.
400

The actor who learns the part JUST IN CASE

understudy/swing

400

What is the structure that we use for stories? Name all of its parts.

Plot diagram: Exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. 

400

Things you hold in your hand while acting are....

props

400

Having a bad final dress rehearsal means...

having a good show/ opening night.

400

Speech performed by one actor.

Monologue 

500

When you have memorized your lines and you can rehearse without a script

off book.

500

What is the arch around the stage called?

Proscenium.

500

All the people who help back stage.

Crew.

500

Whistling backstage in the theater is ...

Bad luck.

500

This specific kind of monologue is a dramatic speech by one character in which the character reveals his/her private, inner-most thoughts.

Soliloquy

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