Show:
Lines and Dialogue
Stage Positions and Areas
Miscellaneous
Crew Terms
Body Positions
100

Using voice volume to be heard by the audience

What is projection?

100
Where the audience can see you.
What is onstage?
100
The main role in the show.
What is lead?
100
A fast darkening of the stage.
What is black out?
100
The actor is facing towards the audience.
What is open?
200

I forgot my lines onstage so I had to ___ ___ and make up lines on the spot.

What is improvise, or ad lib?

200
The room where actors wait for their scene.
What is greenroom?
200
What actors say instead of "good luck."
What is break a leg?
200
Stage platforms
What is risers?
200
The actor is facing away from the audience.
What is closed?
300
A long speech spoken by a single character, also used for auditions.
What is monologue?
300
The area in front of the main curtain.
What is apron?
300

Movement that expresses meaning

What is a gesture?

300
As we were placing the props onstage, we looked for the _____ to make sure we put it in the right spot.
What is spike?
300

A central subject of a play; an observation about life acted out in the drama

What is theme?

400
A line that isn't directed towards other characters, but to the audience.
What is aside?
400
The spaces off to the sides of the main stage area.
What is wings?
400

A character who is almost the temperamental opposite of the protagonist.

What is dramatic foil?

400

A speech made to the audience prior to the beginning of the first act

What is calling the prologue?

400

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?” is an example of this kind of poetic structure.

What is iambic pentameter?

500
I didn't understand what my line meant, so I asked the director what the ___________ for that line was.
What is motivation?
500
To the right of the audiences perspective.
What is stage left?
500
The action of looking at something, turning away, then quickly looking back realizing what the "thing" is.
What is double take?
500
a lighting machine that is able to point in any direction.
What is follow spot?
500
The entire first month of rehearsal was just ________ and the director telling us where to stand, exit, enter, etc.
What is blocking?