Small hand held items used by actors to create the period, character or setting.
What is Prop?
100
That part of the stage floor which projects forward of the proscenium toward the audience.
What is Apron?
100
A term used meaning “to hide.”
What is Mask?
100
Readings before a director to determine casting of a play.
What is Audition?
100
Acting without a script
What is Improv.
200
Wooden units joined together to build the floors for a stage setting.
What is Platforms?
200
Electrical outlets in the stage floor, with hinged covers.
What is Floor pockets?
200
The direction for all actors, musicians, and technicians to go to their proper position and be ready for the beginning of a play or scene.
What is Places?
200
An additional audition for the final actors being considered. It is very similar to semifinals in sports.
What is Callbacks?
200
Acting only using actions no props. Sometimes no words.
What is Pantomime
300
In a proscenium theatre, the offstage spaces located to the immediate left and right of the stage.
What is Wings?
300
A panel of scenery, usually constructed of canvas stretched over a wooden frame and painted. "Two fold" and "book flats" are free-standing and constructed in hinged sections.
What is Flat?
300
A direction given to all actors, musicians, and technicians to leave the stage area prior to the beginning of a play.
What is Clear the stage?
300
An uninterrupted rehearsal of a scene, act, or the entire play
What is Run Through?
300
I was a very famous Silent film actor who was associated with pantomime.
Who was Charlie Chaplin?
400
The clothing worn by the actors
What is Costume?
400
To raise or lower scenery and equipment above the performing area by means of a rigging system.
What is Fly?
400
To get rid of.
What is Strike?
400
The carefully choreographed appearance of actors on stage after the performance to acknowledge the applause of the audience.
What is Curtain Call/Bows?
400
Throughout history the way that our history and other folk tales have been passed on from generation to generation.
What is Storytelling?
500
I am what controls the microphones.
What is the sound box?
500
A fire-resistant curtain made of asbestos, fabric or steel.
What is Fire Curtain?
500
Silence behind the stage.
What is Quiet on set?
500
Person responsible for everything on stage.
What is Stage Manager?
500
We were the creators of Storytelling in the begining.