General theater terms
When an actor speaks loud so that people can hear them.
What is projection?
A person who wrights plays.
What is a playwright?
Someone who performs for others by using their bodies and other means to tell a story.
What is an actor?
A play that is funny.
What is a comedy?
A place on the stage that is right in the middle.
What is center stage?
An interview for a role in a play or a job as an actor, singer, dancer, or musician, that shows their skills.
What is an audition?
When you read a script out loud for the first time.
What is a cold reading?
A group of performers who work together to tell a story.
A play that ends in a bad way.
What is a tragedy?
A place in the theater where the audience sits.
What is the "house"?
Practicing for a play is called?
What is rehearsal?
A story that someone has written that has lines for each character and tells them what to do.
What is a script?
The person who in charge of the look and the feel of the whole play and tells everyone what they are to do.
What is a director?
When an actor tells a story with out making any sounds.
What is a mime?
This is the place behind the stage where the actors, stage crew hide when they are not on stage.
What is back stage?
To be able to say your words so that people can understand what you are saying.
What is to pronounce your words?
When two people do a scene together it is called?
What is a duo scene?
The person who is in charge of everyone who works back stage.
What is a Stage manager?
When you pretend to have something that is not there.
What is Pantomime?
A place on the stage that is at the front of the stage nearest to the audience.
What is down stage?
When someone tells an actor to enter the stage or begin their speech or performance.
What is a cue?
A speech done by one actor.
What is a monologue?
All the people who are behind the scenes. They take care of lights, sound, props, building sets, special effects, costumes, hair and makeup, etc.
What is the stage crew?
When a group of actors perform together with out any script and without any practice. They make it up on the spot.
What is Improv or Improvisation?
A place on the stage that is in the back of the stage.
What is upstage?