Stage Directions
Audience and Stage Vocab.
Actor Vocab.
Actual Play Vocab.
Miscellaneous
100
The part of the stage towards the audience.
What is down or downstage?
100
Waiting for the audience to quiet down after a funny line or scene.
What is holding for laughs?
100
Small props that are usually carried in an actors costume.
What are personal props?
100
The movement or sweep of the play as it progresses.
What is pace?
100
To emphasize a word or line with extra force.
What is a hit?
200
Off the visible stage.
What is off or offstage?
200
To raise the curtain.
What is ring up?
200
The positions of the actors at the opening of an act or scene.
What are places?
200
The script for a movie, including descriptions of scenes and some camera directions.
What is screenplay?
200
Properties such as a letter or luggage carried on stage by an individual character.
What are hand props?
300
On the visible stage.
What is on or onstage.
300
The painted background of the stage.
What is scenery?
300
A group of actors who speak together with one voice and describe or comment on the main action of the play.
What is chorus?
300
The written form of a play.
What is script?
300
To speak when someone else is speaking.
What is overlap?
400
Terms used to describe the actors point of view.
What is left and right?
400
Smaller divisions within the act.
What is scene?
400
An acting role that is used for personality comparison, usually with the main character.
What is foil?
400
A drama characterized by exaggerated emotions and conflicts between characters, usually with a happy ending
What is melodrama?
400
Using ones body and its ability to move through space to affect character, time, and place.
What is movement?
500
To leave the stage.
What is exit or exuent?
500
To draw the maximum response from the audience in comic lines.
What is milk?
500
Giving lines and actions in such a way to make the audience laugh.
What is feeding?
500
An unfinished unpublished script that is usable for purpose of drama. Might be changed in course of rehearsal.
What is working script?
500
Acting without words; using the body to express an idea, an emotion, or a character.
What is pantomine?
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