Random category #1
Stage direction, indicating a move away from the audience.
Above/upstage
A reflection of life; how we think, feel, and live.
Art
Working together.
Collaboration
Stage direction, indicating a move toward the audience.
Below/downstage
Surroundings.
Environment
A large open arch that marks the primary division between the audience and performance space.
Proscenium Arch
A second audition- by invitation only.
Call back
To drop character suddenly, often by laughing or in some way, "breaking up".
Break
A rehearsal in which actors and performers alike perform the entire show from beginning to end.
Run through
Group oriented or team effort.
Ensemble
A signal for either a timed change in a technical element (light, set, or sound) or a signal for an actor to speak or move.
Cue
A group of actors working together to represent the masses. Was first used in Greek theatre and is now used in Musical theatre,
Chorus
The idea that the audience is looking through a wall of a room at the action of the play.
Fourth Wall
To exaggerate facial expressions and reactions to the point of caricature.
Mug
Person who writes scripts.
Playwright
Immediate; unplanned, all of a sudden.
Spontaneous
Doing something on the stage which draws focus from the real action of the play.
Upstaging
An incline.
Rake
How the action of the stage looks and feels to the audience.
Reads
A rehearsal in which actors and performers alike perform the entire show from beginning to end.
Run Through
Bodily movement and expression without dialogue.
Pantomime
Creating the reality that the audience is not present, representing "real life".
Representational
A performance style in which the actor acknowledges and plays to the audience.
Presentational
Refers to the space between things and their relationships.
Spatial
A term used by Aristotle to describe the audience's emotional release at the end of a tragedy.
Catharsis