Stage Directions
The area located in the direct middle of the stage.
What is Center Stage?
The curtain at the front of the stage,
What is the main drape?
A performance that includes solo songs, duets, and/or choruses and ensembles, as well as dance sequences.
What is a musical?
The Greek word for drama.
What is "doing"?
The stage here at HMS is this type of stage.
What is a Proscenium?
The area to the lower right side of the stage from the actor's perspective.
What is downstage right?
The offstage areas to the left and the right of the stage.
What are the wings?
A genre in theatre that is generally light-hearted in tone and often times humorous in nature.
What is a comedy?
A term that means live Theatre.
What is Legitimate Theatre?
A concert venue has this type of stage.
What is an arena stage?
The type of stage from Shakespearean era theatre from which we get our present-day stage directions?
What is a raked stage?
The term for the rod that the curtains and light are hung on.
What are the battens?
True of False: a show can't be dramatic if it also contains jokes.
False
Knowing where you are supposed to be when you are onstage and what lines you enter and exit on.
What is "picking up your cues"?
A type of stage comprised of one background wall and three sides of audience seating.
What is a thrust stage?
The section of the stage that is the further point from the apron.
Where is upstage?
The curtains that are used to hide the strip lights and the wings.
What are the teasers and the legs?
Hamilton is an example of this style of production.
What is a musical?
Anxiety and panic caused by the thought of performing.
What is stage fright?
When using this type of stage it is important to remember to not have you back to the same section of the audience the entire time.
What is theatre in the round?
The area to the lower left side of the stage from the audience point of view.
What is Down Stage Right?
The name for the white sheet that is located at the back most part of the stage.
What is the cyclorama?
A genre of theatre where one of all of the characters die and is generally serious in tone.
A Tragedy
The 6 ingredients of drama.
What are Actors, Audience, Place, Light, Conflict, and Situation?
This type of stage has two sides of audience seating with the stage in between them.
What is a traverse stage?