Stage & Set
The areas on either side of the stage where actors wait before entering.
What are wings?
Use of sound patterns to express your character's "emotional opinion" of a word or phrase.
What is vocal coloring?
A person who operates or manages technical equipment in theatre.
What is a technician or techie?
Exercises actors do before rehearsal to prepare their voices and bodies.
What is a warm-up?
The factor which is a character's chief weakness and which makes him or her most vulnerable; often intensifies in time of stress.
What is a tragic flaw.
A stage that extends out into the audience on three sides.
What is a thrust stage?
When an actor unintentionally steals focus from another actor on stage.
What is upstaging?
The person responsible for lighting, sound, and technical aspects during a performance.
What is a technical director?
Rehearsals that focus on lighting, sound, and technical elements.
What are technical rehearsals?
A style of drama that uses strange situations and illogical dialogue to show the absurdity of life.
What is Theatre of the Absurd?
Two matching flats, usually black in color, located slightly upstage of the teaser and serving to mask the wings or to vary the size or width of the playing area. Creates a "picture frame" effect on stage.
What are tormentors?
Use of learned skills of acting, movement, speech and interpretation to create roles; no emotional response is allowed.
What is technical or objective acting?
Actors are sometimes called this after an Ancient Greek poet and playwright Thespis, traditionally claimed to have been the first person to step from the Chorus to perform as a solo actor,
What is a thespian?
A rehearsal where actors focus on refining scenes and character work rather than staging.
What is a working rehearsal?
A character trait that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero.
What is a tragic flaw?
A platform on wheels used to move scenery quickly.
what is a wagon?
The central goal or motivation that drives a character throughout a play.
what is a through-line?
Who is Thalia?
A performance used to test a new play before its official production.
What is a workshop performance?
The famous awards recognizing excellence in Broadway theatre.
What are the Tony Awards?
A passage providing entrance and exit in a theater or stadium. A tunnel-like passage beneath seating areas in ancient theaters used for entrances/exits.
What is a vomitorium (or vom)?
When actors are repeatedly cast in the same type of role because of appearance or past success.
What is typecasting?
An actor who is able to play a given role in an emergency, appears only when the person playing that role is taken ill.
What is an understudy?
The collaborative process of developing a script through rehearsal and feedback.
What is workshopping?
The major theatre district in London, similar to Broadway in New York.
What is the West End?