person hired by an author to write on his other behalf; receives no public credit.
What is ghost writer?
100
a hint of what is to come in the story. This is often used to keep the audience in a state of expectancy.
What is foreshadowing?
100
the time period before a play opens involving the practice of the dialogue, movement, rhythms and interpretations of the play.
What is rehearsal?
100
the part of the stage farthest from the audience.
What is upstage?
100
refers to the action taking place as the curtain rises.
What is at rise?
200
Author of a play.
What is a playwright?
200
to make up as you go along.
What is improvisation?
200
people in charge of moving scenery and props onstage during a performance, and helping create live audio or visual special effects.
What is run crew?
200
front area of the stage, nearest to the audience.
What is downstage?
200
a writer who reviews plays?
What is critic?
300
one who tells the story; speaks directly to the audience.
What is narrator?
300
the launching pad of the play.
What is an inciting incident?
300
conversation between two or more actors in a play.
What is dialogue?
300
a hidden passage, often behind scenery,through which actors can go from one side of the stage to the other without being seen by the audience.
What is crossover?
300
a speech pattern which is distinctive, or the use of a cultural accent on stage.
What is dialect?
400
A person who conceives and creates the plans for scenary, costumes, lighting, sound, makeup, hairstyles, props and other visual aspects of performance.
What is designer?
400
taking a play in one language and converting it into another.
What is translation?
400
a playscript itself; the art of writing and staging plays; a literary art form different from poetry or other fiction.
What is drama?
400
a small lounge backstage where the actors can relax and get ready to go on.
What is green room?
400
a small unit of a play in which there is no shift of locale or time.
What is scene?
500
a person in charge of assisting actors of their costumes, wigs, and makeup during a production.
What is dresser?
500
long speech spoken by one actor without interruption.
What is a monologue?
500
a person responsible for initiating the interpretation of the play.
What is director?
500
the place where actors take their costumes, wigs, and makeup off.
What is dressing room?
500
the time at which an actor is supposed to be at a rehearsal or performance.