Vocabulary
Acting without a script or prior preparation.
What is Improvisation (or improv)?
The exact middle of the stage.
What is center stage?
A character's goal within a play.
What is an objective?
Anything an actor holds onstage.
What is a prop?
A form of theatre that combines dialogue, music, and dance to tell a story.
What is musical theatre?
What is catharsis?
The name for the part of the stage closest to the audience.
What is downstage?
How a charatcer tries to get what they want in a play.
What is a tactic?
The person who creates the clothing that actors wear on stage.
What is a costume designer?
What is a rake?
The group of Greek actors who acted as one body and sang narration in a play.
What is the Greek Chorus?
The name for the curved part of the stage that is front of the procenium arch.
What is the apron?
The term for standing tall, facing the audience, and not fidgeting.
What is a strong actor's stance?
The person in charge of creating the set and/or backdrops within a play.
The term for the large curtain at the front of the stage that opens and closes.
What is the grand drape?
The Greek God of theatre, wine, and vegitation.
Who is Dionysus?
We determine these from the actor's point of view.
What is stage left and stage right?
The term that means 'facing the audience.'
What is cheating out?
The term for a person who makes/ finds props for a play.
What is a propmaster?
A stand-in prop that is used in the rehearsal room before a real prop is made or found.
What is a "do-for?"
The first actor.
Who is Thespis?
The type of stage we have here at GHS.
What is a procenium theatre?
The term for making your voice loud enough to be heard from stage.
What is projection?
This design element should establish setting, time period, and mood within a play.
What is the set?
Anything performed live for 1 or more people.
What is theatre?