Body Positions
One in which the actor is facing toward the audience
What is Open?
Like a frame
What is Proscenium Stage?
Impromptu scene where the actors make up the dialogue and action on the spot
What is Improvisation?
Curtain that masks the acting area from the audience
What is Act Curtain?
Position in which one actor is turned away from the audience
What is Closed?
Low platform stage that juts out into the audience
What is The Thrust Stage?
Long speech by one character
What is monologue?
Narrow acting area between the front edge of the stage and front curtain
What is Apron?
Two actors share a scene when they are both open to an equal degree
What is Share?
Seats the audience entirely around the playing area
What is The Arena Stage?
What is Readers Theatre?
Opposite the proscenium opening
What is Back Wall?
One actor upstages another when he takes a position that forces the second actor to face upstage or away from the audience
What is Upstaging?
Marking the script with notes on blocking and delivery/analyzing the script as an aid to character development
What is Scoring a Role?
Heavy curtain or canvas-covered wooden frame hung above the proscenium opening to adjust the height of opening
What is Teaser?
Overlapping speeches so that one actor speaks before another finishes.
What is Telescoping?
An approach that calls on the actor to use personal experience and sense memory to develop a character
What is Method Acting?
Framework of beams above the stage that supports riggings for flying scenery
What is Gridiron?