Acting
This is the improv principle that encourages performers to agree with and expand upon ideas presented by their scene partners. (the golden rule of improv)
what is yes, and.....?
This colored material is used to filter the light from a stage lamp, creating mood and atmosphere through color.
What is a Gel?
This term refers to the left side of the stage from the actor's perspective when facing the audience.
What is Stage Left?
This Type of stage is the most intimate form of theatre. Audience is seated on all sides.
What is an arena stage (theatre in the round)?
In Shakespeare plays, what group of people were not allowed to perform on stage?
Women!!!
This type of speech in theatre involves a single character expressing their thoughts or feelings aloud, often while alone on stage.
What is a Monologue?
This makeup technique is used to create the illusion of age, injury, or other transformations on a character's face and body.
What is Special Effects Makeup?
This stage direction indicates that an actor should move toward the front of the stage, closer to the audience.
What is downstage?
This type of stage has audience on 3 sides
What is a thrust stage?
The Traditional Style of Japanese Theatre
What is Kabuki?
This term describes the ability to speak loudly and clearly enough for an audience to hear you without straining your voice.
What is Projection?
This type of costume is designed to reflect the character's personality, social status, and time period in which the story takes place.
What is a Period Costume?
This term describes the area on the stage furthest away from the audience.
What is Upstage?
This type of stage has audience on 2 sides
What is an Alley Stage (catwalk)?
This play was written about children in the Holocaust, it's based on real life poems, drawing, and stories written by the children.
What is "I Never Saw Another Butterfly"?
This term refers to the positioning of the actor on the stage, where the audience can see them
What is turning out?
This large piece of fabric or painted surface is used as a visual background for the stage, often depicting scenery or abstract designs.
What is a Backdrop?
This direction typically instructs an actor to move to the right side of the stage from their own perspective.
What is Stage Right?
This type of stage can be transformed into anything.
What is a blackbox stage?
The reason we have the term "Break A Leg"
The groundlings would drool all over the edge of the stage in amazement and an actor would slip in it and break their leg
In theatre, these are our 2 main genres of plays
What is Comedy and Tragedy?
The individual in charge of acquiring, organizing, and maintaining props during a production.
What is a Prop Master?
The planned movement and positioning of actors on stage during a performance.
What is Blocking?
This is the most traditional type of stage (hint. its the stage we have here at TMS)
What is a Proscenium Stage (picture frame stage)?
The name of Shakespeare's Theatre located in London
What is the Globe Theatre?