Theatre Folk
The gender neutral term for people participating in acting.
What/who are actors?
What is improvisation?
The part of the stage on the actor's right.
What is stage right?
What are costumes?
Practicing a play or scene
What is rehearsal?
To "try out" for a theatre production, television show, or movie
What is an audition?
Adding lines to a scripted scene when necessary
What is an ad lib?
The part of the stage closest to the audience.
What is downstage?
Objects used onstage by an actor
The break between the two halves of a theatre show
What is an intermission?
Saying "good luck" to actors
What is "Break a Leg?"
Who and where you are in an improv scene
What is a platform?
Stage right, but if you're sitting in the audience.
What is audience left?
What we call when all the lights are about to go out on stage
What is a blackout?
The hangings, structures, and/or furniture that make up where a scene takes place
What is a set?
The actors in a play as a group
Who are the cast?
Introducing a problem into an improv scene, making it more interesting for the audience, it is the reason the scene is happening
What is a tilt/raising the stakes?
The part of the stage furthest away from the audience and to the actor's right.
What is upstage right?
The space between the two curtains on the side of stage. What actors enter the stage through.
What are the wings?
An open air theatre originated in ancient Greek and Roman societies
What is an amphitheatre?
Working together as a group towards a common goal
What is collaboration?
What is advancing/saying "Yes, and?"
The center point between up stage, down stage, stage left and stage right.
What is center stage?
A person who writes plays
What is a playwright?