An actor's movement around a set, or the notations regarding movement in an actor's script.
What is blocking
100
Amateur theatre; community theatre.
What is am dram
100
The times at which each individual actor is expected to be at the theater.
What is Call Times
100
To speak one's lines very fast, either individually or as a cast; thought to help in committing lines and cues to memory.
What is to run italians
100
The theatre, the people in the theatre, the audience.
What is the House
200
If a character speaks directly to the audience or walks on/off the stage, this is known as breaking the...
What is the fourth wall
200
An acting style in which the audience is kept aware that they are watching a performance rather than reality.
What is Anti-Naturalism or Brechtian Acting
200
When the lighting or sound crew runs through each of its cues to check for errors. This is done without actors onstage.
What is Cue-to Cue
200
The actress playing the largest role in the cast. (
What is Leading Lady
200
where the musicians play, usually directly in front of the stage, often sunken below the seating sections.
What is the Orchestra Pit
300
To block another actor.
What is to Mask.
300
When an actor who is "in character" makes up action or dialog without prior scripting.
What is Improvisation
300
A stage direction calling for more than one person to exit, from the Latin exire, "to go out."
What is Exeunt
300
to remove a set piece or from the stage.
What is strike
300
Drapery or flats used to frame the stage, and stop the audience from seeing the backstage areas.
What is Masking
400
The interpretation of the script that is stressed by the author or the text itself.
What is Preferred Reading
400
A stage direction calling for a person (or more than one person) to remain on stage as others exit, corresponding to the Latin manent, meaning "they remain."
What is Manet
400
When an actor becomes associated with only one type of role or character, often based on physical appearance.
What is Typecast
400
The curtains separating the stage from the audience.
What are Tabs
500
When only one half of a dialogue is portrayed, either just the questions or the answers, wherein the performer is not directly addressing the audience.
What is a Pseudomonolouge
500
A play which is created or specifically modified to use the character of the performance space to the greatest advantage.
What is Site Specific
500
A practice of an entire play or act.
What is a Run Through.
500
Referring to the lighting department of the crew (lighting designer, head electrician, lighting operator etc).
What is LX
500
An object used in the play, from the Middle English proppe.