Things a Director Might Say
The direction for an actor to go to a specific spot on the stage
What is Hit your Mark?
To try out for a role
What is an audition?
This is the personality of a character the actor is portraying.
What is persona?
This is the script
What is the Book?
The direction to an actor to give more life to the character, lines and gestures
What is Make it Larger?
What a actor wears on stage clothing wise
What is a costume?
This is making up a line or two when someone makes an unrehearsed mistake and you are trying to get back to the rehearsed script.
What is ad-lib?
THis is normally the bad guy in the show
This refers to all cast and crew and everyone involved in the show.
What is the company?
a direction to an actor to tell them to reduces the energy, volume or feelings of a character.
What is Take it Down?
This is what a actor is doing when bowing after the show is done.
What is a curtain call?
This is the why a character does something on stage.
What is motivation?
This is normally the good guy in the show
This is a signal given by the stage manager to an actor, crew or manager about something that should happen
What is a cue?
When the director makes their choice about who is going to play what in the show. The process of auditions, interviews and selection by the director
What is casting?
This is a rehearsal where actors perform the show from the beginning to the end without stopping.
What is a run through?
This is becoming the character. Concentrating and focusing on the play and who the character is. Bringing one's self into the character.
What is centering?
This is a speech made to conclude the play and normally given outside of the final action
What is the epilogue
This is when the actors say their lines without adding stage directions or movements.
What is run lines?
When the director gives you a date to be memorized by
What is Off Book?
This is where all technical aspects, costumes and lights are used in a rehearsal and all cast and crew pretend there is an audience.
What is a Dress Rehearsal?
This is the goal or intention of a character
What is objective?
This is the information given about what has happened before the show opens. It gives background info. It can be in the program notes or said by an actor.
What is the prologue?
What is a soliloquy?