Sets & Props
The place backstage where props are kept during the course of a live production.
What is a Prop Table?
Movements on stage given by the Director
What is blocking?
Directions in the script tell you to speak directly to the audience, so that other characters do not hear you.
What is an aside??
A speech given by one actor, usually telling their inner most thoughts.
What is a monologue?
Always being cast in the same type of role.
What is being type cast?
They are responsible for the props during the run of a live production
Who is the prop master or mistress?
Meeting with the Director, where he/she tells you where you need to improve and what you did right during the rehearsal
What are notes?
Starting Center Stage walk towards the audience
What is cross down center?
Living as your actor, all the time, even when not performing.
What is method acting?
A really, really really fast change.
What is a quick change?
Prop Tables may be organized by these two categories
What is by Scene or by Character?
An Actor's blocking is given to them by the Director, and Stage Directions are written in the script by this person.
Who is the author of the script?
The Director tells you to command the scene and have all the attention on you.
What is take the stage?
A loud whisper intended to be heard by the audience, but not necessarily all the characters on stage.
What is a stage whisper?
A Stage hand who helps performers during costume changes.
Who is a Dresser?
The difference between a hand prop and a set prop.
The Director keeps yelling at your to Cheat Out.
What is face the audience?
The Director asks you to cross the Proscenium line, you are now on the....
What is the apron?
A quick remark, made by a character directly to the audience, breaking the "fourth wall", and others on stage are not supposed to hear it.
What is an aside?
Whent eh cast comes out at the end of the show for bows and applause.
What is the curtain call?
A cup an actor uses on stage would be considered this type of prop.
What is a hand prop?
An imaginary barrier between the audience and the performers on stage.
What is the Fourth Wall?
The place from where you would enter to cross DL
What is the Left Wing?
These smaller parts of a play make up the Acts.
What are scenes?
When the show is over and the cast and crew get together to take apart the set, put costumes and props away, etc.
What is strike?