World Drama
Acting Terms
Folktales and Fables
Auditioning 101
Wild Card
100

This is a famous playwright and poet from England.

Who is William Shakespeare?

100

There are three of these - voice, body, and imagination.

What are the 3 Tools of an Actor?

100

This is a trickster character commonly featured in West African and Caribbean stories.

Who is Anansi?

100

This sometimes includes your name, your age, your location, your height, and the role you will be auditioning for.

What is a slate?

100

This includes doing our best learning, keeping our bodies safe, taking care of others, and respecting props and supplies.

What is the Actor's Agreement?

200

This is a West African call and response chant.

What is Che Che Koolay?

200

Information given by an observer to an actor(s) about the quality of their performance. Can we warm or cool.

What is feedback?

200

A story in which a greedy man learns a lesson about wanting riches above anything else.

What is King Midas's Golden Touch or The Magic Paintbrush?

200

Provide two examples of audition behavior that would be considered professional.

What is arriving on time, making eye contact, saying thank you, being respectful, preparing before the audition, etc.

200

You are allowed this many chairs when performing in the speech and debate event, "Storytelling."

What is one chair per actor.

300

The element of a Peking Opera mask that gives audiences key information about a Jing character's personality.

What are the colors of the mask?

300

Acting without a script, commonly performed in the comedic style.

What is improvisational acting?

300

List three countries that were included in our "Folktales and Fables" story selections.

What is Japan, China, Belgium, Greece, Brazil, West Africa, or New Zealand?

300

This is a long speech by one actor in a play. Actors are typically asked to prepare one for an audition.

What is a monologue?

300

The question that proceeds the response, "DRAMA!"

How do you say drama?

400

This is the country in which one could watch a traditional Noh performance.

What is Japan?

400

Every 4th grade class rehearsed and performed this type of drama at our Christmas Fine Arts Showcase.

What is Reader's Theater?

400

Mr. Rabbit lost his _______, but in the end he gained a love for ______.

What is his tail and cabbage/lettuce?


400

List three ways an actor might prepare for an audition.

What is memorizing a monologue, researching the play or musical, warming up their voice/body, practicing how they will perform, making sure they arrive on time.

400

Mrs. Kirby dressed up as this character for Halloween.

Who is Kirby?

500

A capoeira exercise that includes rocking back and forth from one foot to the other.

What is the ginga?

500

The staged movement of the actors in a theatrical performance.

What is blocking?

500

In this location, traditional folktales and fables often have animal characters.

What is West Africa?

500

A second round of auditions, usually used to see actors perform a scene or song together.

What is a callback?

500

This year, this production was performed as the first ever Oak Hill fall play.

What is "Brief Interviews with Internet Cats"?

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