Stage Vocabulary
Stage Direction
Acting Terms
Classical Vs Stanislavski
Mrs. Geneva Wildcard
100
The director’s planned movement for the characters
What is Blocking?
100
Number 6 Stage Direction
What is Stage Left?
100
This term refers to what a character wants in a specific scene
What is the Objective?
100
The method of acting you would use to represent a Traditional character of Puck.
What is Classical?
100
This is how Mrs. Geneva's last name is spelled
Esguerra
200
A slanted stage, where upstage is slightly higher than downstage.
What is a Raked Stage?
200
Number 7 Stage Direction
What is Downstage Right?
200
This term refers to different active and playable strategies used to get what the actor wants in a particular scene.
What are Tactics?
200
In Stanislavski, this term is the meaning behind the words on the page.
What is Subtext
200
This CTAA musical put on in our cafe in the early 2000's had a recent revival by CTAA.
What is Once on This Island?
300
The area in front of a proscenium arch.
What is an Apron?
300
The direction an actor would be walking from #7 to #3
What is Upstage Left?
300
An unplanned or unscripted form of theater, created spontaneously by performers.
What is Improv
300
True or False:
Classical acting places an emphasis on an actor's psychological relationship with their character.
What is "False"
Classical Acting focuses on the external behavior of the performer.
300
These are the play/musical for the 2023-24 CTAA Season.
What are Hairspray: The Musical and She Kills Monsters?
400
This type of stage
What is Thrust stage?
400
Number 6's House Stage Direction
What is House Right?
400
Refers to the “who, where, what, when, why, and how” of the characters, usually found in the script
What are "Given Circumstances"
400
The term that refers to actors putting themselves in their characters shoes and and consider what they would do if they were in the character’s situation.
What is "The Magic If"
400
If Mrs. Geneva played DnD she would play as this class character.
What is a Rogue cause Mrs. Geneva invites that chaotic energy?
500
This type of stage offers flexibility of stage and audience areas.
What is Black Box?
500
Draw the path of an actor's blocking who moves from Upstage right to Downstage Left and walks stage right till they are offstage.
What is the path through 1,5,9,8,7, Off stage
500
To mark up a script in order to make specific choices about the way to play a character
What is a scored script?
500
Stanislavski encouraged actors to develop this term through observations in their daily lives. This term helps to provide actors with strong feelings to draw from when a character experiences similar emotions on stage.
What is "Emotional Memory"
500
Mrs. Geneva was in this Musical during her sophomore year of high school that also happened to star another teacher
What is Annie?
