Vocal Skills
How high or low your voice is (like a deep voice or a high voice) is a change in
Pitch
What your character wants
Objective
Any movement onstage
Blocking
Expresses a character
Actor
A rehearsal in show conditions
Dress rehearsal
Speaking LOUDLY enough to be heard
projection
What is in your way
Obstacle
The actor's left onstage is
Stage left
Creates the blocking and vision for the entire show
Director
Pause so the audience can laugh and they don't miss any dialogue
Hold for Laughs
Speaking CLEARLY enough to be understood
Articulation
Meaning underneath the text
Subtext
A type of stage where the audience looks through a frame
Proscenium
Creates the budget and schedule
Producer
A single speech to no one - or to an empty stage
Soliloquy
The muscle under your lungs that makes you inhale
Diaphragm
Everything going on in the play (who, what, where...)
Given Circumstances
House
Wrote the script
Playwright
The Greek term for relief and purging emotions
Catharsis
The muscle in your throat, your voicebox
Larynx
Improvisation (or ad lib)
Offstage areas left or right where the audience can't see
wings
Person who organizes the backstage, notes blocking, and calls cues for tech
stage manager
cleaning up at the end of a play
strike