Types of performances
A practice or trial performance of a play.
What is a Rehearsal?
The specific, ordered arrangement of things that happen, essentially a list of what occurred and in what order, which can be chronological or non-linear, and is used to understand processes, stories, or history
What is the sequence of events?
Take action; do something
What is an Act?
An object used during a performance often used for visual effect.
What is a Prop?
The person who leads a show, and who has final say in the production.
What is a director?
Reading a script for the first time without having seen it before.
What is a Cold reading?
The method of presenting a play or other dramatic performance.
What is Staging?
The place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred.
What is a Scene?
The walls, furniture, trees, etc., used on stage during a play.
What is Scenery?
A character who actively opposes the main character.
What is an antagonist?
When an actor who is "in character" makes up action or dialogue without a script/general idea of what to do.
What is Improvisation?
A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
What is Conflict?
What is Intermission?
The lights that shine in the different areas of the stage and auditorium.
What is Lighting?
The people who work behind the scenes.
What is the crew?
Performers express meaning through gestures without speech.
What is pantomiming?
A firm decision to do or not to do something.
What is Resolution?
An orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other extended composition.
What is Overture?
House lights provide light on the theater's seats and aisles for the audience.
What are house lights?
The central/Most important character.
What is a protagonist?
A performance of a story. Comes from the Greek word for "action."
What is a Drama?
It is the avoidance—often described as willing—of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal or impossible in reality.
What is Suspension of Disbelief?
A repeated or additional performance of an item at the end of a concert, as called for by an audience.
An illusion created for movies and television by props, camerawork, computer graphics, etc.
What are special effects?
A male performer acting on stage, television, or in the movies.
What is an actor?