What is the area where players perform:usually a raised platform.
Stage
100
Stage constructed so that the audience can sit on all sides; also known as "theatre in the round"
What isArena stage
100
Planning and working out the movements and stage grouping for a play.
What is blocking
100
Perform in plays major portion or segment of a play
What is Act
100
Speech delivered by one character as if he is speaking to himself, but is overhead by and far for the benifit of the audience.
What is Monologue
200
What is a four sided stagebuilt like a box wit one side cut away, enabling the audience to view the play as if it were a picture frame
Proscenium stage
200
A stage that extends into the seating area. The audience sits on three sides of the stage.
What is Thrust Stage
200
The actors position on stage in relation to the audience.
What is Body position
200
Drama charcterised by a "happily ever after" ending.
What is Comedy
200
person who wries plays.
What is Playwright
300
The draperies covering the proscenium opening, seperating the audience from the stage.
What is Grand Drape
300
Any stage not classified as proscenium, arena or thrust
What is flexible staging
300
Appealing and meaningful arrangment of performers on the stage; the picture that the audiensce sees on stage.
What is Stage picture
300
End of a scene: closing of the curtain to depict the end of an act or scene.
What is Curtain
300
Properties, objects or articles used in a play, to add to the characters portrayals.
What is Props
400
Offstage spaces to the sides of the acting area.
What is Wings
400
The section of the theatre where the audience sits; also called "out front"
What is House
400
The actual height of the actor as determined by his or her body position. Meaning is created in stage pictures by placing actors as different levels.
What is level
400
Part of a traditional stage closest to audience
What is Downstage
400
Subdivision of an act of a play, where action takes place in one stage setting.
What is Scene
500
The part of the stage extending past the proscenium arch toward the audience.
What is Apron
500
Nine to fifteen divisions of the stage floor, used by directors when moving actors or placing scenery of furniture.
What is Acting area
500
imaginary divisions giving depth to the proscenium stage. an actor moves through the stage planes as he or she moves down stage toward the audience or upstage away from the audience.
What is planes
500
Story Written out to be acted on stage by actors; contains dialogue and stage direction play.
What is Drama
500
Painted scenes and acsessories used to depict the setting of a play.