Types of Stage
Techniques in Drama
Voice and Movement
Vocab
Famous Playwrights
100

Which type of stage has a proscenium arch?

Proscenium stage

100

Which technique of drama includes facial expressions, posture, stance and gestures?

Body

100

What is it when you take a short silence?

Pause

100

A speech given by one person?

Monologue

100

Who wrote 39 plays?

William Shakespeare

200

Which stage has the audience on three sides?

Thrust Stage

200

Which level is changing a light bulb and leaping?

High Level

200

What are ways to describe movement?

Size, weight, time, flow, tension

200

The lines spoken by the actors in the script?

Dialogue

200

Which writer is known for giving a voice to the common people?

Arthur miller

300

On which stage does the audience surround the circular performance area on all sides?

Theatre in the round

300

What is it called when your voice is high or low?

Pitch

300

How is the space being used to ______ the audience on a character or object?

Focus

300

A speech, often in verse, addressed to the audience at the beginning of the play?

Prologue

300

Which playwright is from Ireland?

George Bernard Shaw

400

What type of stage is used for major sporting events?

Arena stage

400

What's it called when you talk really fast or slow?

Rate

400

How close or far a character is from another character or object?

Proximity

400

A speech given on stage while other characters are on stage, but the information is not heard by the other characters?

Aside

400

Who is the father of modern drama?

Henrik Ibsen

500

What is it called when the front of the stage extends past the proscenium?

The apron

500

What is it called when you pronounce the words clearly and correctly?

Diction

500

The directions that tell the actors how to move, speak, and act?

Stage Directions

500

A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the audience knows is true?

Dramatic Irony

500

Who wrote The Glass Menagerie? 

Tennessee Williams

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