Improvisation
This term means to say yes.
What is "accepting"?
This is the part of the auditorium where the audience sits.
What is the house?
This is the part of the character that deals with their inner world, i.e. their name, age, sexuality, gender identity, family, relationships, likes and dislikes, etc.
What is their background?
This very popular musical takes many liberties depicting the American Revolution.
What is Hamilton?
This playwright, born in 1564, is largely known as the most famous playwright ever and wrote 39 plays and over 154 sonnets.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This term, which has multiple meanings, means to say no in improvisation.
What is "blocking"?
This is the part of the stage that is closest to the house.
What is the Apron?
This is the part of the character that deals with hair color, eye color, clothing, etc.
What is their appearance?
This popular musical is set in Austria during WWII.
What is The Sound of Music?
This famous play depicts the Salem Witch Trials.
What is The Crucible?
This term means to say yes to an offer, but with conditions.
What is an "alternative offer"?
This is the place onstage where actors wait to go within view of the audience.
What are the wings?
This is the part of the character that deals with how the character talks.
What is their voice?
This new(ish) musical gives a New Orleans jazz spin on Greek mythology.
What is Hadestown?
This play was written based on the real-life journal of a teenaged girl.
What is The Diary of Anne Frank?
This is the person who keeps the story going in many scripted plays and in improvisation.
Who is a narrator?
This part of the stage is to the audience's right.
What is stage left?
This is the part of the character that deals with how they walk, sit, stand, and their facial expression.
What is their body and space?
This musical, currently running at The Orpheum, details a Paris opera house in the late 1800 and early 1900's.
What is Phantom of the Opera?
What is Alice in Wonderland?
In this improvisational strategy, a player intercepts to create a different scene.
What is "editing"?
Explain why there is an upstage and a downstage.
Various wording, up to teacher discretion.
This is the part of the character that deals with the speed and flow of their body.
What is their movement?
This musical depicts a realistically fictional life story of the original playwright.
What is Tick Tick Boom?
This famous play is known for being "incredibly boring" details a normal family's journey through life, love, and death. Though it's known for its mundanity, it is revered as one of the best plays of all time.
What is Our Town?