What is the art of mimicking, imitating, representing or portraying another personality or role.
It is what actors do when they are performing a role to an audience or on film.
Acting
100
A speech delivered by one character.
Monologue
100
A role that functions like a storyteller. A character that describes the action or provides a commentary for the audience. This person could be present on stage, be off stage or a pre-recorded voice.
Narrator
100
An Acting style used in Epic Theatre to distance the audience from having any sense that the theatrical experience is real
Alienation Effect
100
A group of people working collectively using vocal and movement skills to communicate thoughts feeling and ideas.
Originated in Greek Theatre.
Chorus
200
The highest point of tension in the piece created by previous events.
Climax
200
The imaginary wall through which the audience can see into the lives of the characters.
Fourth Wall
200
A character or characters without whom the events of the play could not happen.
Protagonist
200
A category or type of Drama which is defined by a specific set of conventions. Examples include somedy, tragedy, musicals, melodrama and pantomime.
Genre
200
Work that is principally developed by performers without working to a script conventially.
Devising
300
Conversation in the play.
Dialogue
300
The playwright’s arrangements of events. The term used for the sequential development of the story.
Plot
300
The person or persona that an actor wishes to portray.
Character
300
Performing quickly in response to something, or acting without planning.
Improvisation
300
A theatre form and performance style that emphasises and exaggerates the movements and gestural qualities of performance.
Companies such as DV8, Trestle, Complicite and Frantic Assembly are examples of this form.
Physical Theatre
400
An incomplete end to a scene or performance often leaving the audience dissapointed or unsatisfied.
Anti-Climax
400
The variety of options open to a designer; includes in the round, end on, thrust, promenade etc.
Staging
400
The result of effective use of suspense and/or conflict. It drives the drama on and keeps the audience interested.
Tension
400
a movement of the part of the body, especially a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning.
Gesture
400
Any form of action on stage which conveys meaning to an audience which is not spoken.
This can include gesture, facial expression, movement, mime, tableux and many more
Non- Verbal Communication
500
A hidden level of meaning which is revealed through language and physical gesture.
Sub-Text
500
A minor story line contained in the play
Sub- Plot
500
An intention or aim; what a character wants to achieve
Objective
500
The physical arrangement and movement of actors on stage
Blocking
500
A term used to describe the way in which spatial relationships between each of the performers and between the performers and their stage environment.