Starts with a Vowel
Direction for an actor to leave the stage.
What is Exit?
The director’s planned movement for the characters.
What is Blocking?
“You were supposed to enter there! You missed your ______!”
What is Cue?
Where the audience is seated on all four sides.
What is Arena Staging?
This area between the stage and first few rows of seats might need some deodorant.
What is Pit?
Actor who is able to fill in for a certain character in an emergency.
What is Understudy?
The act of increasing voice or actions so they will carry out to the audience.
What is Projection?
“Actors, hold! Get to your _______ for the start of scene 3!”
What is Places?
Where the stage extends outward, allowing the audience to sit on two or three sides.
What is Thrust Staging?
This X on your bowling scorecard involves taking down the set and props after a show’s completion.
What is Strike?
What the character wants; their goal or purpose.
What is Objective?
Movement in the opposite direction to another actor’s movement to balance the stage picture.
What is Countercross?
“You’re mumbling your words, use more _________.”
What is Articulation?
Where the audience is on two sides of the stage, facing each other.
What is Traverse Staging?
Better put on some bug spray when heading up to this area above the stage where scenery is hung and stored.
What is The Flies?
Area between the floodlights and the curtain.
What is Apron?
Long speech given by a character alone on stage.
What is Soliloquy?
"We don’t use any props or set pieces in this play, so you will ___________ washing the dishes.
What is Pantomime?
Where the audience sits on a slanted floor so every row can see over the row in front of them.
What is Raked House?
Bow down to this fee paid to the author of a piece to perform it.
What is Royalty?
Speech spoken by a character directly to the audience. The other actors supposedly don’t hear this dialogue.
What is Aside?
Taking the audience’s attention away from the proper focal point.
What is Stealing the Scene?
“The __________ happened too soon so I was stumbling my way off stage in the dark!”
What is Blackout?
Where seats can be arranged for proscenium, arena, or thrust staging.
What is Flexible Staging?
Admiral Ackbar: “It’s an opening in the stage floor that actors enter and exit through!”
What is Trap?