To Be or Not to Be
A performer
What is Actor/Actress?
The status of the show: the show is playing that day
What is Open?
Furnishings, set dressings, and all items large and small which cannot be classified as scenery, electrics or wardrobe.
What are Props?
The part of the stage nearest to the audience.
Downstage
The status of the show: Will no longer be playing
What is Closed?
A dramatic performance or reading by one person alone.
What is Monologue?
A full run of the show, with all technical and creative elements brought together. The performance as it will be on the night.
What is Dress Rehearsal?
Clothes worn by the actors onstage
What is Costumes?
A movable drape or screen of cloth used to conceal all or part of the stage
What are Curtains?
The status of the show: it is not playing that day, but will continue to play.
What is Dark?
The spoken text of a play - conversations between characters
What is Dialogue?
A sequence of performances of the same production. 2) A rehearsal of the whole show or a section of it
What is Run?
The complete stage setting for a scene or act.
What is Set?
The printed instructions to actors and/or directors found in published plays, as in "John pauses and considers Mary's words, then walks to the window and peers out."
What are Stage Directions?
The person whose role involves being responsible for the overall artistic vision of a production.
What is Director?
To add lines or business not in the script, or songs or music not in the score, especially as improvisation.
What is Ad Lib?
Afternoon performance of a show
What is Matinee?
A piece of text containing lines and stage directions designed to be performed live on a stage in front of an audience.
What is Play?
Part of the theatre front of house area where audience members can buy tickets.
What is Box Office?
The members of the acting company. The List contains the names of the actors and the characters they'll be playing.
What is Cast?
In acting, expressive movement of the body, without words.
What is Pantomime?
The Acting Area
What is Stage?
Anything in position before the beginning of a scene or act
What is Preset?
The part of the stage to the audience's left.
What is Stage Right?
The term in Pantomime for the force of grabbing or releasing an object.
What is Click?