Vocabulary Terms
An actor is doing this correctly if the audience can hear them.
What is Projection?
This is the furthest forward center point on a stage.
What is downstage center?
Classified by archaeologists because they predate settlements or the written language.
The part of the script is at the top and centered. It also lets the audience know what the play is.
What is the title?
When a performance has finished, the audience will do this action.
What is clap?
The actor is doing this if the audience can understand them.
What is articulation?
From the actors perspective, the right lower corner on stage.
What is downstage right?
Considered the earliest form of theater, this is the act of recreation.
What is imitation?
The name of the person who wrote the play usually labeled as "by" or "written by."
What is a playwright?
Talking to your neighbor, being on your devices, and disrupting the performance are all examples of what type of behavior?
This is the planned movement of a scene or play.
What is blocking?
What is upstage left?
A set behaviors or actions repeated to create a desired outcome.
What is a ritual?
The action descriptions for actors and/or the scene description.
What are stage directions?
A performance slate includes: a greeting, the performers name, the performance type, the title of play and ...
What is the playwright?
This occurs when an actor is turned out towards the audience, usually at a three-quarter turn.
What is cheating out?
The large arch that frames the front of the stage and gives this style of theater its name.
What is a proscenium arch?
These are prescribed events that usually signify some historical or religious meaning to the culture.
What are festivals and holidays?
The words that the actors say.
The italicized part of this slate is what? "Hello, my name is Mrs. Innes and today I will be performing a monologue from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare."
What is a performance type?
An actor has successfully done this when they no longer need a script to remember their lines.
What is memorization?
The apparatus of pullies which is used to bring curtains and scenery down to the stage from above.
What is a fly system?
A form of ritual that is rooted in a personal belief that has no factual foundation.
What is a superstition?
This punctuation mark is two vertical dots that are used to separate the character name from the dialogue.
What is a colon?
Listening and paying attention, devices being put away and off, sitting in your seat, and clapping when a performance is over are all examples of what type of behavior?
What is good audience etiquette?