Types of Stage
Which type of stage has a proscenium arch?
Proscenium stage
Which technique of drama includes facial expressions, posture, stance and gestures?
Body
What is it when you take a short silence?
Pause
A speech given by one person?
Monologue
Who wrote 39 plays?
William Shakespeare
Which stage has the audience on three sides?
Thrust Stage
Which level is changing a light bulb and leaping?
High Level
What are ways to describe movement?
Size, weight, time, flow, tension
The lines spoken by the actors in the script?
Dialogue
Which writer is known for giving a voice to the common people?
Arthur miller
On which stage does the audience surround the circular performance area on all sides?
Theatre in the round
What is it called when your voice is high or low?
Pitch
How is the space being used to ______ the audience on a character or object?
Focus
A speech, often in verse, addressed to the audience at the beginning of the play?
Prologue
Which playwright is from Ireland?
George Bernard Shaw
What type of stage is used for major sporting events?
Arena stage
What's it called when you talk really fast or slow?
Rate
How close or far a character is from another character or object?
Proximity
A speech given on stage while other characters are on stage, but the information is not heard by the other characters?
Aside
Who is the father of modern drama?
Henrik Ibsen
What is it called when the front of the stage extends past the proscenium?
The apron
What is it called when you pronounce the words clearly and correctly?
Diction
The directions that tell the actors how to move, speak, and act?
Stage Directions
A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the audience knows is true?
Dramatic Irony
Who wrote The Glass Menagerie?
Tennessee Williams