Theater 101
The written text actors use to learn their lines.
a script
you forget a line in rehearsal, you can yell this to ask for help.
"LINE"
This Spider-Man actor got his start playing Billy Elliot on the West End.
Tom Holland
These two Shakespearean lovers both die after a disastrous misunderstanding involving a sleeping potion.
Romeo and Juliet
She poisons a classmate, helps cover up multiple murders, and somehow her boyfriend is still the bigger red flag
Veronica Sawyer? (Heathers)
The first public performance of a production is called this.
When scenery or a prop unexpectedly breaks during a performance, actors should generally do this rather than stop the scene.
stay in character/keep going?
This X-men actor is also a Tony-winning musical theatre performer.
In this musical, the title character is a barber who murders customers before Mrs. Lovett turns them into meat pies.
Sweeney Todd
He hears a prophecy that he'll become king and decides murder is the fastest way to make it happen.
Macbeth
When actors arrive to audition without preparing a specific piece, they may be asked to do this type of reading.
Cold read
An actor enters a scene several minutes earlier than planned. They have missed this.
Their cue
This Star Wars actor earned a Tony nomination for starring in Burn This on Broadway.
Adam Driver
By the end of this Shakespeare play, Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude and Laertes all die during the final scene.
Hamlet
She gets rejected by a married man and responds by accusing his wife of witchcraft.
Abigail Williams? (The Crucible)
The person responsible for the overall artistic vision of a theatrical production.
The Director
A sword falls apart during a fight scene. Continuing safely while adapting to the mistake demonstrates this theatre skill.
improvisation
Before starring in Stranger Things, this actor performed on Broadway in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Les Misérables
Gaten Matarazzo
In Les Misérables, this young revolutionary dies at the barricade after singing about her unrequited love for Marius.
Éponine
He kidnaps a young woman, threatens her fiancé, drops a chandelier, and somehow thinks they're still going to end up together.
The Phantom of the Opera
When a performer stands directly in front of another performer and prevents the audience from seeing them, they are doing this.
Masking
A performer starts laughing uncontrollably and can't stay in character. This is often called doing this.
breaking character/corpsing
This actor famous for the Harry Potter series portrayed Guy Fawkes in a 2023 London production about the Gunpowder Plot.
Tom Felton
This Greek tragedy ends with its title character discovering that he unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, although he survives the play itself.
Oedipus Rex
He spends most of high school worrying more about what his friends think of his relationship than actually treating his girlfriend well.
Danny Zuko? — Grease