Theatre Folk
Performers onstage participating in acting (male and female).
Who are Actors/Actresses?
The two sides of the stage (stage directions).
What are stage left and right?
Making up dialogue and action as you go, usually guided by an idea, topic, or theme. Acting without rehearsal.
What is improvisation?
What actors/actresses are wearing onstage. Also called wardrobe.
What are costumes?
People who watch, listen, and respond to a theatre performance.
Who are the audience?
To "try out" for a theatre production, film, and or television show.
What is an audition?
The portion of the stage closest to the audience.
What is downstage?
To perform for an audience representing another person, character, or creature.
What is acting?
The space between the curtains at the sides of the stage.
What are wings?
What is rehearsal?
A way to wish actors "good luck" before a performance.
What is the phrase "break a leg?"
The portion of the stage farthest away from the audience.
What is Upstage?
To add lines to a scripted scene when necessary.
What is an ad lib?
What are props?
The break between the two halves of a play
What is an intermission?
The actors in a play.
Who are the cast?
A type of theatre stage that is on an angle in order for the audience to see the back of the stage more clearly. The reason stage directions are “upstage and “downstage.”
What is a raked stage?
Aiming the body out toward the audience when talking to another character.
What is cheating out?
When all the lights on stage go off at the same time, called out by backstage crew.
What is a blackout?
A written copy of a play.
What is a script?
Working together as a group or in partners towards a common goal.
What is collaboration?
The middle point between upstage, downstage, stage left, and stage right.
What is centre stage?
The last word before a line, action, or lighting/set change.
What is a cue?
Hangings, structures, and/or furniture that represent a location or decorate the stage.
What is the set/scenery.
A person who writes plays.
What is a playwright?