Vocabulary
This is the written text actors use to perform a play.
What is a script?
Which direction moves an actor closer to the audience?
What is Downstage?
Acting without speaking.
What is pantomime?
This department controls microphones and sound effects.
What is Sound?
This playwright wrote Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
The first part of Freytag's Pyramid.
What is Exposition?
This tells actors where to move on stage.
What are stage directions?
Which direction moves an actor away from the audience?
What is Upstage?
Creating a scene without preparation.
What is improvisation?
This department creates and builds scenery.
What is Set Design?
The city known as the home of Broadway.
What is New York City?
The turning point of a story.
What is the Climax?
The area behind the scenes where actors wait before entering.
What is backstage?
This area is directly in the center of the stage.
What is Center Stage?
The objective is what a character wants to achieve.
What is a character's goal?
These are used to illuminate performers on stage.
What are stage lights?
This musical features Elphaba and Glinda.
What is Wicked?
The events leading up to the climax.
What is Rising Action?
The final bow taken by actors after a performance.
What is a curtain call?
An actor moves from Stage Right to Stage Left. This is called what?
What is crossing?
The conflict is the problem standing in the character's way.
What is conflict?
The person responsible for designing actors' clothing.
Who is the Costume Designer?
The longest-running musical in Broadway history.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
The events after the climax.
What is Falling Action?
The person responsible for coordinating rehearsals and calling cues.
Who is the Stage Manager?
Name all nine stage areas.
Up Left, Up Center, Up Right, Center Left, Center, Center Right, Down Left, Down Center, Down Right
The emotional or physical action a character uses to get what they want.
What is a tactic?
A detailed overhead drawing showing the placement of scenery.
What is a ground plan?
This ancient civilization is considered the birthplace of theatre.
What is Greece?
The final resolution of the story.
What is Resolution?