This is the area along the front of the stage ( closest to the audience)
What is downstage
This is the type of acting where you come up with ideas on the spot in the moment.
What is Improvisation ( Improv)
This is the overly large, over the type style of acting popular in the 19th century. ( Heros and villians)
What is MELODRAMA?
This is the call that means get ready but don't execute the cue yet.
What is standby?
When and where an actor moves onstage.
What is an blocking?
This is the area along the back of the stage that is furthest away from the audience.
What is Upstage
In improvisation you are always doing it right because of this.
What is "there is no right, or wrong" in improvisation.
This civilization is known for rowdy crowds, using code in their costumes, and a more comedic style of show.
What is the Roman Theatre?
This is the type of stage frames the stage like a picture frame.
What is the proscenium theatre?
When operating the spotlight, you should light the actors from the _________ to about 6 in. above the actors __________.
What is waist, head?
The box in the middle of a diagram of the nine areas of the stage
What is Center Stage
What is cheating out?
Playwrights from this era include Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekov, and George Bernard Shaw.
What is Modern Theatre.
This lies in front of the "Proscenium Arch".
What is the apron?
Losing concentration or getting out of character
What is breaking character?
The area of the stage to the director's and audience's LEFT, but to the actor's RIGHT
What is Stage Right
These are used to increase focus, confidence, and teamwork before rehearsals. They also build ensemble.
What are theatre games? ( Improv Games)
One of Shakespeare's rival playwrights during the Elizabethean Theatre Age.
Who are Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson
This type of stage is also known as "Theatre in the round".
What is an arena stage?
Conversation between actors on-stage
What is a dialogue?
These are the names and locations of all 9 areas of the stage. (Abbreviations will work.)
What is Upstage right, upstage center, upstage left, center stage right, center stage, center stage left, downstage right, downstage center, downstage left
This is our motto in improvisation. (demonstration)
What is always say YES!" ( Yes and....)
This was the reason many actors fled to France in the 17th century.
What is the government shut down all the theatres in England?
This is the main difference between a proscenium stage, and an arena stage. DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! YOUR POINTS ARE WORTH DOUBLE.
What is how in an arena stage the audience sits on all sides, whereas in a proscenium stage they only sit on one side?
an actors position onstage in relation to the audience
What is body position?