The Stage
Theatre Jobs
All The Parts
What's Needed
What's Needed #2
Don't Even Think About It!
100

The area where the players (actors) perform; usually raised and may or may not have a curtain

What is a stage?

100
Males or females playing character roles.
What is an Actor?
100
The conversation between actors on stage.
What is dialogue?
100
To speak loudly in order to be heard.
What is projection?
100
Consideration for and acceptance or ourselves and others, including other people's property,backgrounds, and opinions; Always to be given by an audience member when others are performing.
What is respect?
100

This is when an actor says or does something that is not in the script and can occasionally be good, but is best avoided because it can throw off the rest of the cast and crew.

Note: The exception to this is when the script calls for ad-libbing or when you are "playing for time"

What is ad-libbing/improvising?

200
The section of the theatre where the audience sits.
What is the house?
200
The person in charge of the artistic production of a play.
What is the director?
200
The personality an actor portrays in a scene or play.
What is a character?
200
A person's pronunciation of words.
What is diction?
200

The invisible divider between the players and the audience that is sometimes broken for effect.

What is the fourth wall?

200

You should never do this without permission from your fellow players (and that includes kissing!).

What is make physical contact?

300
Offstage places to the sides of the acting area.
What are the wings?
300
Someone who writes plays.
What is a playwright?
300
Information provided by the playwright (or director) to give the actors instructions about how to feel or what do do at certain times in the play; usually seen in italics and parentheses in a script.
What are stage directions?
300
Belief in your worth and abilities as a person.
What is self- confidence?
300
Techniques and skills that we all have and use to help us express ourselves; they include concentration, observation, and imagination.
What are personal resources?
300

When an actor is, even for a moment, no longer their character but their usual self.

What is breaking character?

400
The part of the stage that is closest to where the audience sits.
What is downstage?
400
A person who plans and creates dances.
What is a choreographer?
400
A written copy of the dialogue that the actors will speak.
What is a script?
400
An inner drive that causes a person to act in a certain way.
What is motivation?
400
To have all of one's lines memorized.
What is Off-Book?
400

Talking behind someone's back, also called THIS, is a sure way to create a toxic environment in theatre.

What is gossiping?

500
The "place" where the play takes place; Usually made up of large pieces to portray a particular time and place.
What is a set(ting)?
500

Runs the show once it is open, keeps track of paperwork and scheduling, serves as communication hub for all other roles, takes line notes during rehearsals; second-in-command to the director (pretty much they do everything)

What is the stage manager?

500
A short situation with a beginning, middle, and end to be acted out; also a subdivision of a play.
What is a scene?
500
The way we see ourselves.
What is self-image?
500

The special connection between an audience and the actors on stage during a live performance?

What is the Player-Audience Relationship?

500

This is when someone interrupts a performance by making loud, rude, or challenging comments/questions (or sometimes a combination of all three).

What is heckling?

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