Theatre
Theatre Definitions
All the World's a Stage
The Stage
You Know the Rules
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Verbal and Non-Verbal Elements
Technical Theatre
Vocabulary
100
The person who writes plays?
What is a playwright?
100
The practice before a production opens in front of an audience.
What is rehearsal?
100
An acting technique that uses no words, sounds or objects to tell a story.
What is Pantomime?
100
The area of the stage located at #9.
What is Center Stage?
100
Something that an actor wears during a performance.
What is a Costume?
100
The Actor's Tools.
What are body, voice, imagination, and focus.
100
The relative highness or lowness of a tone as perceived by the ear.
Pitch
100
The colors in this element are important to the script and the character.
Sound
100
Rehearsals emphasizing the performance of the production’s technical elements– prop changes, scenery shifts, light changes, sound effects, etc.
Technical Rehearsal
200
A conversation where 2 or more people are talking.
What is Dialogue?
200
The tension between two or more characters or between action and ideas
What is Conflict?
200
The where and when of the play or story?
What is the Setting?
200
The area of the stage located at #3 and #4.
What are the wings?
200
These are the actor's tools.
What are Voice, Body, Imagination, and Focus?
200
Theatre is...
What is acting, singing and dancing.
200
Refers to the ups and downs in language.
Inflection
200
These are objects the character brings on stage to use.
Props
200
Committee of technicians who work behind the scenes creating the scenery, props, and so on.
Crew
300
A spontaneous style of theatre using unrehearsed and unscripted acting scenes.
What is Improvisation?
300
An uninterrupted speech of some length delivered by one character.
What is a monologue?
300
A small bit of action (ex. bouncing a ball, writing a letter) on stage.
What is stage business?
300
The area located at #17 and #18.
What is the House?
300
These usually indicate a change of setting or time in a play.
What are scenes?
300
A character can...
What is think, feel, move, and change.
300
The strength of speaking or singing whereby the human voice is used powerfully and clearly.
Projection
300
This element is based on the director's vision.
Set
300
A term for the movement and positioning of actors on a stage.
Blocking
400
He was the first actor.
Who is Thespis?
400
The end/conclusion of a story or play?
What is the resolution?
400
The character that stands in the way of the main character getting what they want.
What is the Antagonist?
400
The area of the stage located at #5.
What is upstage right?
400
These two things are found out at the beginning of the play.
What are the characters and the setting?
400
A male film performer.
What is an actor?
400
The degree of loudness or softness of your voice when communicating.
Volume
400
This element sets the tone and mood of the production.
Lighting
400
The dialogue, sounds, movement, or business signaling an actor or a technician to respond as rehearsed.
Cue
500
Theatre began in this country.
What is Ancient Greece?
500
Plays are divided into these main parts.
What are Acts?
500
The pattern of movement that actors do on stage.
What is blocking?
500
The area of the stage located at #13.
What is downstage left?
500
These two things are found out in the middle of the play.
What is what the characters are doing and the conflict?
500
The living things (human and animal), and objects that act like people in a play.
What are the characters?
500
Refers to speaking clearly and understandably pronouncing each word.
Articulation
500
This element is the glue that holds all the other elements together.
Sound
500
A person who creates or plans a specific part of the production, such as the costumes, lighting, set, make-up, or sound.
Designer