Stage Terms
Section of a performance
(Typically, there are two)
What is an Act?
Who were credited with the origins of theatre despite the earlier Egyptian performances
What is Greek?
A modern American Musical about the beginning of America and the Founding Fathers
What is Hamilton?
This Playwright Wrote Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth
the creation of clothing for the overall appearance of a character or performer
What are Costumes?
The precise staging of actors to facilitate the performance
What is Blocking?
a classical form of Japanese theatre
What is Kabuki?
Longest Running Broadway Musical
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
This type of theatre took place during the late Middle Ages
What is medieval theatre?
The sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through
What is the Plot?
The action of taking something off stage or taking down a set
What is Strike?
term we use today which means actor
What is Thespian?
This composer wrote Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, School of Rock and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Who is Andrew Lloyd Webber?
A 19th-century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be
What is realism?
Scenery and properties designed and arranged for a particular scene in a play
What is the Set?
Moving Towards the Audience
What is Downstage?
This word mean tragedy in Greek
What is tragos?
Where Elphaba and Glinda meet in Wicked (School Name)
What is Shiz University?
Played an important role in Greek theatre, keeping the audience informed of acting on-stage
What is the Chorus?
The Main Character in the show
What is the protagonist?
The entire part of the stage, usually framed by the curtains, is visible to the audience.
What is a Proscenium Stage?
This playwright wrote Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Electra, and Antigone
Who is Sophocles?
Lead Princess in Once Upon A Mattress
Who is Princess Winnifred the Woebegone?
Aeschylus was known as
What is The Father of Tragedies?
assists in the creation of sets, props, costumes, lights and sound throughout the term during the production
What is the Tech Crew?