The imaginary person that the actor pretends to be on stage.
What is Character or Persona
100
A short speech made to the audience not heard by other characters.
What is Aside
100
Taking down, changing out and putting away costumes, props and sets after a production.
What is strike
100
The people who come to watch the performance.
What is Audience
100
A humorous, entertaining play with a happy ending.
What is comedy
200
A character where one main aspect is exaggerated.
What is CARICATURE
200
A scene performed with little or no rehearsal.
What is IMPROVISATION
200
The clothes that actors wear on stage to help portray their characters.
What is costumes
200
The unspoken element in dialogue – the meaning behind the words
What is Sub Text
200
Humorous drama with tragic elements in it – a bleak, comic view of life.
What is black comedy
300
A person or a situation that opposes another character’s goals or desires.
What is Antagonist
300
A scene for one actor who speaks his or her thoughts aloud or talks to an imaginary character or directly to the audience.
What is MONOLOGUE
300
The actual pieces of furniture, blocks, structures on the stage.
What is set
300
A style of writing in which characters, situations and settings express more than they represent.
What is SYMBOLISM
300
Tragic farces in which human existence is seen to be pointless.
What is Absurd Theater
400
The main character of a play and the character with whom the audience identifies most strongly.
What is Protagonist
400
A speech spoken by one character alone on stage.
What is SOLILOQUY
400
The process of practicing the play until it is ready.
What is Rehearsal
400
Theater where language is less important and movement, mime and gesture are used to the full.
What is Non-Verbal Theater
400
A play where a main character declines in status to ultimate destruction, due to character flaws.
What is Tragedy
500
Established characters, such as young lovers, neighborhood busybodies, sneaky villains, and overprotective fathers, who are immediately recognizable by an audience.
What is Stock Characters
500
A scene for two actors.
What is Duologue
500
A prop that can be easily handled. egg books, dishes, bags, glasses, etc.
What is Hand Prop
500
Information given through dialogue explaining events leading up to the action.
What is Exposition
500
Plays which mock or make fun of certain sections of society