Theatre Basics
to perform for an audience representing another person.
What is an Act?
R, actor's right when facing the audience.
What is Stage Right?
rehearsal for perfecting lights, scenery, sound, and other technical elements.
What is a Technical Rehearsal?
responsible for shaping every aspect of the final performance—from the actors' performances to the setting and design choices.
What is a Director?
wish for good luck in a performance.
What is "break a leg"?
performer, player, thespian.
What is an Actor?
D, portion of the stage closest to the audience; toward the audience.
What is Downstage?
spotlight that can be moved around during a performance.
What is a Follow spot?
person who plans and writes plays.
What is a Playwright?
difficult to pronounce phrases or sentences used as articulation exercises.
people who watch and or listen and respond to a performance.
What is an Audience
part of the stage projecting past the curtain line toward the audience.
What is an Apron?
cosmetics of various colors applied to the actor's skin so that facial features are visible and/or altered under stage lighting.
What is Makeup?
person who finds financial investors, hires the director and production staff, sets the budget, etc. for a play production.
What is a Producer?
create lines or action spontaneously when necessary.
What is ad Lib?
play that treats situations or characters in a humorous way; play with a happy ending.
What is a Comedy?
piece of wood or pipe from which lights, scenery and curtains are hung.
What is a Batten
Colored lighting film (originally made from gelatine)
What is a Gel?
person in charge of everything back of the grand drape except the actors and costumes; answers to the stage manager.
What is a Technical Director?
words that sound like what they mean. ex. boom, clack, zip.
permanent framed opening through which the audience sees a play.
What is a Proscenium Theatre?
backstage area on either side of the stage.
What are Wings?
table situated in wings on which props are placed.
What is a Prop Table?
facilitates communication across all creative and technical departments; act as a right hand to the director; oversee sets, props, lights, and sound; and call all technical cues during performances.
What is a Stage Manager?
Before the entire theater is closed for the evening, all lights except for a single, exposed bulb are left on stage. Some say to give the ghosts some light to perform by.
What is a Ghost Light?