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It's All in the Details
100

What term means: 2 or more people having a conversation on stage?

DIALOGUE

100

True or False: Plot is the message or moral of a story. 

FALSE!!!!!!

100

What does "off book" mean?

The actor is fully memorized/no longer using their script

100

The very, VERY middle of a stage is called....

Center Stage

100

Name one of the props used in our Home Alone Activity OR demonstrate the gesture taught to us by Ross Geller in Friends. 

Ms. Volk will confirm

200

What theatre term refers to an ITEM used on STAGE?

Prop

200

The climaxi is between the _______________ Action and the __________________ Action. 

Rising

Falling

200

Actors say "good luck" it the theatre by saying...

Break a leg

200

The FRONT part of the stage is called...

Downstage

200

I am making a long speech. 

Other people on stage can hear me because I am talking to them.

I may be telling a story. 

What type of speech am I making?

Monologe

300

What theatre term refers to a motion (that has meaning) with the HEAD or HAND?

Gesture

300

The very end of a play when all loose ends are tied up (unless there is a sequel) is called: 

Resolution

300

To LAUGH ONSTAGE when you aren't supposed to is called...

Corpsing

300

The BACK part of the stage is called...

UPSTAGE

300

Which element of Theatre involves the 5 senses (how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes, or feels?)

SETTING

400

What term means: the series of events in order of a story?

Plot

400

What part of plot is the very beginning where characters, setting, and background information are introduced?

Exposition

400
It is bad luck to say "Macbeth" in a theatre. 

What do people call it instead?

The Scottish Play

400
If a line were to go across the very middle of the stage HORIZONTALLY, what would that section of the stage be called?

Mid stage

400

I am ONE person ALONE on stage. 

I am making a long speech about my INNER THOUGHTS and FEELINGS. 

What type of speech am I making?

Soliloquy

500

Many people have heard of "breaking the fourth wall". What is the technical theatre term for this short comment directly TO the audience?

Aside

500

What is the TURNING POINT of a story- and usually the most intense moment?

Climax

500
The first rehearsal with tech that involves going through lighting CUES, sound CUES, and music CUES is called a...

Cue to Cue 

500

I am the actor on stage. 

My director tells me to go to stage Left. 

What direction should I go?

.....left 

500

The definition is THE MORAL OF THE STORY. 

Examples include:

Don't judge a book by its cover

Be careful what you wish for 

Stay true to yourself 


What is the this theatre term called?

THEME