Stage
The Area used by actors during the performance of a scene
What is Acting Areas?
When performers express meaning ONLY through gestures.
What is Pantomime?
When you read a script for the first time with no prep
what is cold read?
cosmetics such as lipstick or powder applied to the face, used to enhance or alter the appearance.
What is make-up?
The event that sets the main character or characters on the journey that will occupy them throughout the narrative.
What is the Inciting Incident?
The Flat Wide part of the stage that curves outward
What is the Apron?
Speaking with enough volume so that your voice is heard throughout the entire house.
What is Projecting? (Projection)
the final rehearsal of a live show
what is dress rehearsal?
a set of clothes in a style typical of a particular country or historical period.
What are costumes?
The section of the plot leading up to the climax, in which the tension stemming from the story's central conflict.
What is Rising Action?
The place the audience sits.
What is the House?
the movements you make during acting
What is gesture?
go from beginning to end of script
what is a run through?
the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.
What is motivation?
The point in the narrative where the tension, excitement, or stakes reach the highest level.
What is the Climax of the Story?
OVERALL Place where you perform a show
What is the Stage?
The format of how you express emotions through your face
what are facial expressions
lines spoken by characters
what is dialogue?
a character within literature solves a problem.
What is a resolution?
The period of time in a story that follows the climax and leads to the resolution.
What is the Falling Action?
The hidden areas to the left and right of the stage. This is where actors wait before they make an appearance.
What is the Wings of the Stage?
The formation of clear and distinct sounds in speech
What is articulation
the part of the play where the audience learns about the setting, the characters and story
what is exposition?
What are Stage directions?
Where all conflict has been solved and questions are all answered, Otherwise known as the final chapter of the work/play.
What is the Denouement/Resolution of the Story?