Elements of Drama
The written book that contains the play.
What is a Script?
The person in charge of creating the dance numbers in a musical.
What is a choreographer?
The direction moving towards the audience.
What is downstage?
the name of the mime we studied at the beginning of the year.
Who is Marcel Marceau?
objects used to bring the play to life.
What is a prop?
The person in charge of the backstage area during rehearsals and shows.
What is a stage manager?
The direction moving away from the audience.
Upstage.
The name of the silent movie actor that inspired the mime we studied.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
Written instructions for the actors indicated in parenthesis.
The artistic mind of the show. The person that helps the actors perform to the best of their ability.
What is a director?
The middle of the stage.
What is center stage?
The brief break between Act 1 and Act 2.
What is intermission?
The words actors say to each other onstage.
Dialogue
The group of people that perform the play onstage in front of an audience - but do not have their own speaking lines.
What is an ensemble?
The curtains on the side of the stage used for entrances.
What are wings?
fully memorized.
What is off-book?
The place where a drama is performed.
What is a theater?
The person that wrote the play.
What is a playwright?
Is left and right determined from the actor's point of view or the audience's point of view?
Actors
What are auditions?