Show:
Stage
What am I Watching?
People
Putting on a Show
Misc.
100
Stage built at an angle to allow the audience to see all of the action.
What is "rake"?
100
A long speech by one actor.
What is a monologue?
100
A theatrical performer.
What is an actor?
100
A short performance given to try out for a part in a drama or play.
What is an audition?
100
What they call the place the audience sits during a performance.
What is the "House"?
200
Located right and left of the stage this area allows cast and crew members to remain unseen by the audience.
What are the "wings"?
200
A serious drama that usually ends in disaster for the main character or ends with most of the characters dying.
What is a tragedy?
200
The person who is controls the vision and all aspects of the of the play from rehearsal until opening night.
What is a director?
200
Making up line of dialog or action on the spot, usually when an actor forgets what they are supposed to do.
What is ad lib?
200
This is usually the last complete rehearsal of a drama, using costumes, scenery, lighting, etc.
What is a dress rehearsal?
300
A theater stage that extends out into the house and has seats on three sides.
What is a thrust stage?
300
This type of drama was invented because audience members wanted to see a happy story about love.
What is comedy?
300
Without these people the actor would be on stage in the dark, without make-up and naked. They work behind the scenes.
What is a crew member or the backstage crew?
300
The daily practicing of a show.
What is rehearsal?
300
You have to pay these to the creator of a drama because of copyright laws.
What is a royalty?
400
Also know as an arena stage this type of stage has audience seating on all sides.
What is "In the Round" stage?
400
This type of drama is told with song and dance. Usually comedic, but serious versions do exist.
What is a musical?
400
Authors write novels, Screenwriters write movies. Composers write music, but these folks write dramas or plays.
What is playwright?
400
The physical arrangement of movement of actors on stage assigned by the director.
What is blocking?
400
Reading from a script with little or no rehearsal, usually at an audition.
What is a "cold" reading?
500
The type of stage at Alief Middle School. It looks like a picture frame with the audience sitting on one side.
What is a proscenium stage?
500
When a character is alone on stage and speaks his/her thoughts or feelings to the audience?
What is soliloquy?
500
2500 years ago citizens of Greece wrote plays to honor this God of Wine and Fertility.
Who is Dionysus?
500
This person fills in for an actor when the performer cannot go on stage due to illness or emergency.
What is an understudy?
500
The most powerful stage location. The first place a typical audience will look also referred to as "DR"
What is Down Stage Right or Down Right