Titles of people who put on a play
A person who tells a story through drama.
What is an actor?
Items worn by actors to help show their character.
What are costumes?
Time spent practicing and preparing for a performance.
What is a rehearsal?
A person who writes the script.
What is a playwright?
What is a comedy?
The person who helps the actors tell the story on stage.
Who is the director?
Objects used by actors during a play to help tell the story.
What are props?
An actors movement on stage.
What is blocking?
A Person, animal, or being in a story. Performed by actors in a play.
What is a character?
A play where the ending is sad.
What is a tragedy?
A group of people who help backstage and with the technical parts of theater.
Who is the crew?
The area where actors perform a play.
What is a stage?
When an actor speaks loud and clear so that the audience can hear and understand the play.
What is projecting?
When an actor memorizes their lines and no longer needs their script.
What is off book?
A play where the actors sing and dance to help tell the story.
What is a musical?
The group of people who work together to put on a play.
What is the cast?
The words of the story that actors perform.
What is a script?
A signal that a line or action should begin.
What is a cue?
When you tell a story without using words.
What is miming?
A play that has no music, no singing' and no dancing in it. It is just acted out.
What is a straight play?
The person who is in charge of everyone backstage.
What is a stage manager?
The background pieces that show us the world of the story.
What are sets?
When the actors get together for rehearsal and read through the script for the first time.
What is a cold reading?
A quick paced way of telling a story without a script or practicing. Making it up on the spot.
What is improv?
A play where the acting is overdone, there is music in the background to help heighten emotions, There is audience participation, and it tells of good defeating evil.
What is a melodrama?