The Stage
The area of the stage on the actor's left.
What is stage left?
The words that you do not say on stage, they describe the action, setting, and/or lighting changes.
What are stage directions?
"Good luck" to theatre folk.
What is "break a leg?"
What we call before lights go out onstage.
What is "blackout?"
The end of a performance.
What is the finale?
The centre point between stage right, stage left, upstage, and downstage.
What is centre stage?
What your character wants.
What is an objective?
The words that are spoken in a play.
What is dialogue?
What actors are wearing on stage.
What are costumes?
Structures, furniture, and backdrops that make up the background of a performance.
What is the set?
The name for when a stage is on an incline (the reason for the names upstage and down stage).
What is a raked stage?
What is an obstacle?
A portion of a script written for a single character.
What is a monologue?
The place behind the stage, where the audience cannot see.
What is backstage?
When a character is important, an authority figure, or has great wealth.
What is high status?
The stage direction on the audience's right.
What is stage left?
The strategy your character will try in order to get what they want.
What are tactics?
When a scene is written between two characters.
What is a duologue?
Your signal that it is your time to shine (say your line, do a set change, start a dance etc).
What is a cue?
A type of outside theatre, it has no roof.
What is an amphitheatre?
Using the distance between characters on stage as a dramatic device
Clues about your character that are given to you by the playwright.
What are given circumstances?
A type of monologue where the actor speaks directly to the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
Making the set pieces smaller or larger to fit with the story you are telling.
What is using scale?
When the audience knows something the characters onstage do not.
What is dramatic irony?