Theatre Vocab/Body Positions
The body position I am in if I am facing upstage
What is full back?
What the main characters speak and say
What is Dialogue
This stage type has audience on 3 sides
What is a thrust stage
This area is the part of the stage furthest from the audience
What is upstage ?
Ms Lincoln's favorite musical
What is Hadestown?
If Ms Lincoln asks me to "cheat out" during a scene. She is probably asking me to go in what type of body position?
What is a quarter turn?
Planned movements actors do on stage
What is blocking?
This stage type has an audience on ALL sides
What is an arena ?
Directions on stage are determined by WHO?
Who is the Actor ?
What are the names of Ms Lincoln's two cats
Ivy Soup and Zula
You finish a dance number facing your partner with half of your body visible to the audience. This is the position you have most likely ended in.
What is profile/half turn
Words said to the audience but none of the other characters on stage can hear
What is an aside?
The name of the type of stage that was angled or tilted in the 1500's
What is a raked stage?
This area is the stage area is closest to the audience that does NOT extend past the curtain line.
What is downstage ?
Name a musical currently running on Broadway
Maybe Happy Ending, Wicked, & Juliet, The Great Gatsby, MJ, Stranger Things, The Outsiders, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Cabaret, Aladdin, Just in Time, Beetlejuice, Hell's Kitchen, The Lion King, Moulin Rouge, Hamilton, Six the Musical, The Book of Mormon, Death Becomes Her, Chicago, Mamma Mia, Hadestown?
The four different sections of theatrical design
What is Lighting, Sound, Costumes, and Scenery ?
The element of story writing/playwrighting that is ESSENTIAL for any story or character. It is boring without this.
What is conflict?
This type of stage has an audience on ONE side and an arch.
What is a proscenium stage?
The area on stage that extends past the curtain line
What is the apron?
Henry V, Taming of the Shrew, Midsummer Nights Dream, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Tempest, Othello, King Lear, As You Like it....ect
What did the word Drama come from?
What is Greek origin. Dram (To do/to Act)
The two main types of drama (genres)
What is comedy and tragedy ?
You have not learned this. The area of the stage ABOVE the stage that actors and tech may use to get to other areas of the stage or drop down items. This term also refers to the name of a stage a model may walk down.
What is a catwalk ?
What are Wings?
Ms Lincoln's favorite coaster at Kings Dominion?
What is Twisted Timbers?