Acting
The closest part of the stage to the audience is called ________
Downstage
What is the name for the template with an outline of a body that designers use to draw costumes on?
A croquis
What is the different between flat and platform sets?
Flats are walls that the set is painted onto. Platforms are three-dimensional and can include real stairs, doors, and different rooms.
What is the name for the area where the musicians sit in a theater?
The orchestra pit
True or false: dance is a type of performing arts.
When an actor speaks in a loud enough voice that the audience can hear them, it's called ____
Projection
Name two things that costumes can tell us about a character.
How much money they have
Where they live
What job they have
What year it is
What is the name for the people who's job it is to move sets around between scenes?
Stage hands or stage crew
What was the name of the most famous playwright of all time (hint: they wrote Romeo and Juliet)?
William Shakespeare
True or false: A bed is a prop.
False. A prop is something a performer can use with their hands.
This is the name of the muscle that expands like a balloon to let more air into our lungs so we can speak louder and stronger.
Diaphragm
Name two things a character (male or female) might wear if the play was taking place in the 1800's.
Female: Bonnet, apron, large skirt, corset, gloves, crown, etc.
Male: Top hat, cowboy hat, suspenders, cape, etc.
What is the name for the three-sided, triangular set pieces that revolve to make different pictures?
Periaktos
A group of actors in a play is called the ______
Cast
True or false: actors pretend to "fly" on stage by hanging from special wires that are controlled by a worker offstage.
True
What is the name for a group of actors in a play?
The cast
For our play, we borrowed the costumes, but in a professional performance where do the costumes usually come from?
Costume shop workers sew all the costumes themselves.
A large Broadway production can have how many stage lights hanging from the ceiling?
One thousand
The name for a play with singing and dancing is a _______
Musical
True or false: stage directions in a script tell the actors what to say.
False. Stage directions tell the actors what to do.
The very first actors and plays came from what ancient country?
Greece
Name two things that actors wore in the Lion King videos we watched in class.
Grass headdresses, grass skirts, woven capes, beaded dresses, lion/antelope/zebra headdresses, handpainted shoes, etc
"Theater in the round" is the name for a type of set design where the audience sits ____
All around the stage in a circle
The word "Mime" is short for _______
Pantomime
True or false: the actors choose which side of the stage to enter and exit from, and it can be different for each rehearsal.
False. The director makes those decisions and it always stays the same.