Make-up
Stages
Greeks
Stage Directions
Vocab
100
The "base" makeup that is meant to look like your own skin.
Foundation
100
Stage built at an angle to allow the audience to see all of the action.
Raked
100
2500 years ago citizens of Greece wrote plays to honor this God of Wine and Fertility.
Dionysus
100
The WAY an actor stands on stage
Body Position
100
A serious drama that usually ends in disaster for the main character or ends with most of the characters dying.
Tragedy
200
A lighter color than your foundation. Used to accentuate where light naturally hits your face.
Highlights
200
A theater stage that extends out into the house and has seats on three sides.
Thrust
200
The part of the stage where the chorus would sing
Orchestra
200
On what part of the stage do you see Shrek and Donkey?
Upstage Left
200
The inventor of tragedy, this actor/playwright from ancient Greece is the inspiration for the International Thespian Society.
Thespis
300
Using makeup to create an older appearance by tracing the natural wrinkles in your face.
Old Age Make-up
300
Also know as an arena stage this type of stage has audience seating on all sides.
In The Round
300
A type of play that makes fun of the gods
Satire
300
The area in front of the stage
Apron
300
A short performance given to try out for a part in a drama or play.
Audition
400
A makeup technique to chisel a performers face and emphasize the natural shadows under their cheekbones.
Contour
400
The type of stage at Pacetti Bay Middle School. It looks like a picture frame with the audience sitting on one side.
Proscenium
400
This playwright introduced the second actor
Aesculus
400
Moving from one part of the stage to another
Cross or X
400
A long speech by one actor.
Monologue
500
The first step to applying makeup that keeps your makeup from coming off.
Primer
500
Located right and left of the stage this area allows cast and crew members to remain unseen by the audience.
Wings
500
Wrote the Unities
Aristotle
500
To open up towards the audience
Cheat out
500
When a character is alone on stage and speaks his/her thoughts or feelings to the audience?
Soliloquy