Verbiage
a sequence of continuous action in a play, movie, opera, or book
What is an 'Scene'?
An instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
What are 'stage directions'
These three things should be established in the first few lines of any improv scene.
What is setting, characters and action (or situation)?
A change in motivation or strategy in a monologue or scene.
What is a beat?
Curtains, backdrops or any structures constructed to transform an empty stage into a suitable space
What is 'scenic'?
is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion, form, or both are specified.
What is choreography?
Beginning, middle and end.
What are the three parts of a story?
Activities actors do on stage to look natural.
What is 'stage business'?
The person in charge of the artistic production and unified vision of a theatrical production.
What is a "Director"?
To study carefully or examine critically.
What is analysis?
This person is responsible for the overall financial and managerial functions of a production or venue, raises or provides financial backing, and hires personnel for creative positions.
What is a Producer?
An advisor in theatre who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, often providing historical background or context.
What is a damaturg?
A [L] in the stage directions.
What is left stage?
The registration or ownership of a literary or musical work.
What is copyright?
Usually a loose-leaf notebook containing the script marked with all stage movements, entrances and exits, technical cues and special instructions for the production. The stage manager is usually in charge of it.
What is a promptbook?
The process for selecting a certain type of actor, dancer, singer, or extra for a particular role or part in a script.
What is casting?
A description or interpretation of the external and internal features of a real or fictional person
What is a characterization?
Established characters, such as young lovers, neighborhood busybodies, sneaky villains, and overprotective fathers, who are immediately recognizable by an audience..
What are 'stock characters'?
The ability to risk expressing yourself in front of classmates without fear of being ridiculed.
What is trust?
Rehearsals for the purpose of reading and analyzing the scripts as well as discuss and understand characterization.
What is a reading rehearsal?
The planning and working out of the movements of actors on stage.
What is a blocking?
Taking down a set and putting away all of the costumes, props, set and other materials after the completion of a play.
What is 'strike'?
A philosophy or practice that deals with the nature of beauty and 'good taste'
What is aesthetics?
The dialogue, sounds, movement or business signaling an actor or technician to respond as rehearsed.
What are cues?
A chart that lists every CHARACTER in every SCENE and what they WEAR including shoes, wigs, special make-up, changes, etc.
What is a costume plot?