The area where the players (actors) perform; usually raised and may or may not have a curtain
What is a stage?
100
Males or females playing character roles.
What is an Actor?
100
The conversation between actors on stage.
What is dialogue?
100
To speak loudly in order to be heard.
What is projection?
100
Consideration for and acceptance or ourselves and others, including other people's property,backgrounds, and opinions; Always to be given by an audience member when others are performing.
What is respect?
200
The section of the theatre where the audience sits.
What is the house?
200
The person in charge of the artistic production of a play.
What is the director?
200
The personality an actor portrays in a scene or play.
What is a character?
200
A person's pronunciation of words.
What is diction?
200
The special interactive and "live" relationship between the actors on the stage and the audience.
What is the Player-Audience Relationship?
300
Offstage places to the sides of the acting area.
What are the wings?
300
Someone who writes plays.
What is a playwright?
300
Information provided by the playwright (or director) to give the actors instructions about how to feel or what do do at certain times in the play; usually seen in italics and parentheses in a script.
What are stage directions?
300
Belief in your worth and abilities as a person.
What is self- confidence?
300
Techniques and skills that we all have and use to help us express ourselves; they include concentration, observation, and imagination.
What are personal resources?
400
The part of the stage that is closest to where the audience sits.
What is downstage?
400
A person who plans and creates dances.
What is a choreographer?
400
A written copy of the dialogue that the actors will speak.
What is a script?
400
An inner drive that causes a person to act in a certain way.
What is motivation?
400
To have all of one's lines memorized.
What is Off-Book?
500
The "place" where the play takes place; Usually made up of large pieces to portray a particular time and place.
What is a set(ting)?
500
The Greek word for actor.
What is a thespian?
500
A short situation with a beginning, middle, and end to be acted out; also a subdivision of a play.