What is a speech given by a single character who is expressing his/her inner thoughts?
100
A cold reading be used at this time.
What is for a first reading or an audition?
100
This is used to show the effect of a flashing light or flashing sign.
What is a gel filter?
100
The area of a theatre from which an audience sits or watches a performance.
What is the house?
100
He is considered the most notable playwrights of all time.
Who is William Shakespeare?
200
The main idea or message of a play.
What is theme?
200
To improvise a line or action.
What is ad-lib?
200
This type of light is used from a side position to help add depth and definition.
What is a key light?
200
These cover nine key positions on the stage.
What are
UR, UC, UL
SR, CC, SL
DR, DC, DL
200
An extended speech by one person who is pouring out their innermost thoughts.
What is a monologue -- a soliloquy?
300
The five stages of a plot.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and solution?
300
During a rehearsal, you do this to see a complete showing of the play.
What is a run-through?
300
This type of light is often shown from the back to help add more definition to facial areas.
What is a kicker?
300
This place is not part of the performance stage. It's were money is collected.
What is box office?
300
Of these names, who is an American playwright?
Scooby-Doo
August Wilson
Joseph Perry
Terry Barclay
Who is August Wilson? (August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.)
400
An extended speech by one person.
What is a monologue?
400
When performing, actors and actresses do this, conveying emotions, actions, feelings by gestures without speech.
What is pantomime?
400
To help balance out the light, this light is often used.
What is a fill light?
400
This position on the stage is were "To Be or Not To Be" is performed as part of Shakespear's "Hamlet."
What is Center Center (Center Stage) CC.
400
The invisible thing that seperates the audience from the actors onstage.
What is the fourth wall?
500
Reading aloud from a script or other text with little or no practice.
What is a cold reading?
500
When an actor behaves appropriately during a performance.
What is audience etiquette?
500
This type of light is utilized -- most of the time only because it's generally part of the scene?
What is a practical light?
500
This part of the stage is closest to the audience.