Starts With a Vowel
Direction for an actor to leave the stage.
What is an Exit?
The director’s planned movement for the characters.
What is Blocking?
“You were supposed to enter there! You missed your ______!”
What is Cue?
Staging where the audience is seated on all four sides.
What is Arena Staging?
This area between the stage and first few rows of seats might need some deodorant.
What is the Pit?
An actor who is able to fill in for a certain character in an emergency.
What is an Understudy?
To increase voice or actions so they will carry out to the audience.
What is to Project?
“Actors, hold! Get to your _________ for the start of scene 3!”
What is Places?
Staging where the stage extends outward, allowing the audience to sit on two or three sides.
What is Thrust Staging?
Better put on some bug spray when heading up to this area above the stage where scenery is hung and stored.
What is the Flies?
What the character wants; their goal or purpose.
What is an Objective?
An actor’s movement in the opposite direction to another actor’s cross to balance the stage picture.
What is a Countercross?
“You’re mumbling your words, use more _________.”
What is Articulation?
Staging where audience is on two sides of the stage, facing towards each other.
What is Traverse Staging? (Also known as Alley, Runway, and Corridor)
This X on your bowling scorecard involves taking down the set and props after a show’s completion.
What is a Strike?
The area between the floodlights and the curtain.
What is the Apron?
A long speech given by a character alone on stage.
What is a Soliloquy?
We don’t use any props in this play, so you will _________ washing the dishes.”
What is Pantomime?
Staging where the audience sits on a slanted floor, where every row can see over the row in front of them.
Bow down to this fee paid to the author of a piece to perform it.
What is a Royalty?
Dialogue spoken by a character directly to the audience. The other actors supposedly don’t hear this speech.
What is an Aside?
Taking the audience’s attention away from the proper focal point.
What is Stealing The Scene?
“The ________ happened too soon so I just stumbled my way off stage in the dark!”
What is a Blackout?
Staging where seats can be arranged for proscenium, arena, or thrust staging.
What is Flexible Staging?
Admiral Ackbar: “It’s an opening in the stage floor that actors enter and exit through!”
What is a Trap?