Stage Terms
The offstage areas.
What are the wings?
The public performance of a play.
What is opening night?
The stage at HMS is this type of stage.
What is a proscenium?
A speech given by one character to express their feelings.
What is a monologue?
A play that is mostly humorous in nature.
What is a comedy?
The name of the front curtain.
What is the main drape?
The staging of a show by a director.
What is blocking?
The type of stage that has audience on 3 sides of the stage.
What is a thrust stage?
Emotionally identifying with someone outside of yourself.
What is empathy?
A play that is mostly sad or serious.
What is a tragedy?
The lights above the audience.
What are the cove lights?
What is a line test?
The two types of stages that has audience on all sides of the stage.
What are arena stages and theatre in the round?
Ways or traditions of doing and discussing Theatre.
What are conventions?
The events that happen in a story.
What is a plot?
The curtains that cover the strip lights.
What are the teasers?
The final rehearsal with all technical and artistic elements.
What is a dress rehearsal?
The type of stage that has audience seated at tables.
What is a caberet?
Greek word meaning to do or to act.
A division of a play.
What is an act?
A set piece that you stand on.
What is a platform?
The reading of a play once the show is cast.
What is a table read?
A type of stage that has audience of two sides of the stage.
What is a traverse stage?
The study of the arts, music, and literature. Areas of human interest.
What are humanities?
A signal to a performer to say or do something.
What are "cues" in acting?