Vocab 1
What is the audience area?
What is the House
What are the narrow curtains in the wings to mask the backstage areas?
What are the Legs?
What is upstage
What are the wooden units joined together to build the floors for a stage setting?
What are the platforms
What are the last words or actions indicating the time for another actor to speak or move?
What is a cue
What is the usually curved area of the stage closest to the audience?
What is the Apron
What is the drop farthest upstage in most settings?
What are the lines said to the audience that other actors onstage are not supposed to be hearing?
What is an Aside
What is the clothing worn by the actors that helps determine character, time, theme, and mood?
What are the costumes
What is a time when all lights are out or the theater is closed?
What is dark
What are the areas to the left and right of the stage out of view to the audience?
What are the Wings
What is the viewing area called?
What is the House
What is using a movement or position that may not be realistic but allows the audience to see the action more clearly?
What is Cheating
What is the place that the director wants the audience to look?
What is the focus
What is the direction for all actors, musicians, and technicians to go to their proper position?
What are places
What is the large curtain that is lit at the back of the stage and behind the set?
What are the Cyclorama
What is the area above the stage where curtains and set pieces are stored?
What is the Fly Loft
What are the lines made up by an actor to fill in where there would be an undesirable pause due to dropped lines?
What is ad lib
What is the story or action performed with out words, relying on body language
What is pantomime
What is a term of warning used to call attention to overhead danger?
What is Heads Up
What is the imaginary line across the stage floor which follows the line of the front curtain?
What is the Curtain Line
What is the curtain upstage that sometimes has a picture or a design?
What is the Backdrop
What are the who, what, when, where, and why of the play or scene or character?
What are the given circumstances.
What is the actor's ability to be heard by the audience?
What is Volume
What are readings before a director to determine casting of a play?
What are auditions?