People
People who portray characters in dramatic works.
What are actors?
The study of live drama performed on a stage.
What is Theatre?
Free space
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The physical space on which theatrical works are performed.
What is a stage?
The reason the girls started laughing at Ponyboy in Biology.
What is accidentally dissecting a frog with a switchblade?
Any person, animal, or personified object in a story.
What is a character?
A literary work acted out on a stage before an audience.
What is a play?
Spontaneous acting usually based on some established criteria. (usually without a script)
What is Improv?
Objects that are typically held or carried by actors to make the action on stage seem more realistic.
What are props?
Finish the following lyric "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart..."
What is "and the very next day, you gave it away."?
Ponyboy's 16-year-old brother.
Who is sodapop?
The action or sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
Speaking loudly… so the people in the back can hear us.
What is Projection?
The clothing that actors wear as they are embodying their characters during theatrical performances.
What is a costume?
The origin story of terms like upstage and downstage.
Raked stages: Stages used to be slanted downward, hence the name!
The name of the play we started reading this week.
What is the Outsiders?
What is a tragedy?
A set of rules that govern speech, specifically how speech can effectively translate to large audiences for maximum impact.
What is diction?
The constructed physical surroundings that inhabit the world of the play.
What is a set?
The stage direction that means "closer to the audience."
What is downstage?
The lead creative coach and decision-maker in a theatre ensemble.
Who is the director?
The customary code of polite behavior in society or among members of a particular profession or group.
What is etiquette?
The planned movements actors make when on stage.
What is Blocking?
The element of theatre that consists of the visual components of a theatrical work, such as lighting, costume, and set.
What is spectacle?
Romeo's cousin.
Who is Benvolio?