A play, activity, or other presentation that has an audience, performer, and stage.
Theatre/Drama
What is the major difference between a play and a musical?
What is the name of time where you practice the songs, dances, and dialogue of the show before performing the musical?
Rehearsal
What is the name for all the performers selected to be in a play?
Cast
The character who the story is all about, is called the ________ character?
Main/Major/Lead
The book of dialogue for the entire play.
Script
The name of the surface that the actors perform on.
Stage
Acting without script, working collaboratively and creatively to create theatre on your feet.
Improv.
A theatre professional who oversees the overall theatre production by managing the actors and designers to create a whole show.
Director
The words of a song within a musical
Lyrics
These are the set of rules that tell us how to behave while viewing a live production.
Theatre Etiquette
Using the voice to increase volume so all areas can understand you. This is not yelling.
Projection
In the quote that includes "fantasize about a world we aspire to", can this world be real, fantasy, or both?
Both
A group of actors on stage who do not have lines but help tell the story through sing and dance only.
Ensemble
Break a Leg
If projection is the volume of your voice, this is the emotion or style of your voice.
Tone
1) A conversational exchange between two or more people.
2) One character just speaks to another character or the audience for an extended period of time without interruption.
Dialogue. Monologue.
Tom and John are in rehearsal, they are working on an improv show. John makes a funny face at Tom, which almost makes him laugh in the middle of the rehearsal. What is John trying to make Tom do?
Break Character
Who is the member of the creative team who writes the play?
Playwright.
What is the room that has the audience called?
The House
1) A genre of theatre that is emotional, and/or has sudden turn of events where the main character experiences a hardship.
2)A genre of theatre that is funny, and sometimes romantic where the main character(s) make you laugh.
1) Drama
2) Comedy
Name three examples of theatre etiquette we discussed.
1) No Talking
2) Don't touch the actors
3) Applaud when appropriate (transitions/bows)
These tell us where to go on the stage. An additional 100 points if you can name all of the directions.
Stage Parts/Directions- US, DS, C, SL, SR, USR, USL, DSR, and DSL
Actor who steps in to replace a character in a play
Understudy
When the play is over or closed, this is the process of breaking down the set and cleaning the stage
Strike