Acting Terms
The words that a character speaks
What are lines?
Actors work without this in improv scenes
What is a script?
The person who designs costumes for a play
Who is the costume designer (or costumer)?
A bunch of domesticated animals dance in a junkyard . . . there really isn't a plot.
What is Cats?
A stage where the actors are surrounded by the audience on all sides
What is theatre-in-the-round?
Stressing a word in a sentence to give it importance
What is the number one rule of improv?
What is "Say Yes?"
When a actor switches costumes in a limited amount of time
What is a quick change?
A nun-in-training becomes a governess to seven children in Salzburg, Austria, just before World War II begins
What is The Sound of Music?
A theatre with the audience on three sides of the stage
What is a thrust stage?
A character's goal
What is an objective?
Another rule of improv: Work hard to __________.
What is "to make your partner look good?"
Clothing designed to represent a particular era in time
What is period clothing?
In the Jewish community of Anatevka, Russia, villagers rely on "tradition" to maintain life's delicate balance.
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
The most common type of stage, where the audience and actors are facing each other.
What is a proscenium stage?
Actors use these to try to achieve their goal
What are tactics?
Three things should you establish at the beginning of an improv scene
What is "who you are, where you are, and what you are doing?"
A sketch of a costume design
What is a rendering?
A stuffy speech teacher transforms a London street urchin into a proper lady
What is My Fair Lady?
The 2019 Broadway revival of Once On This Island used this kind of stage
What is theatre-in-the-round?
The thing a character means, but does not say out loud.
What is subtext?
When two characters argue in a scene, not pushing the plot forward
What is going tic for tack?
Small samples of fabric
What are swatches?
A hunky rock star travels to Ohio to get "one last kiss" from a fan before going into the armed forces in the 1950s
What is Bye Bye Birdie?
A style of staging that features very few set pieces
What is minimalistic?