Pantomime
Stage Areas
Improv
Voice
Staging Conventions
100

Pantomime principle for keeping the door in the same place and opening the same way.

What is consistency of objects

100

The part of the stage unseen by the audience.

What is backstage?

100

The phrase that we use to accept and add in a scene

What is "yes, and..."

100
How loud or soft your voice is

What is volume?

100

Standing so the audience can see you

What is open?

200

Pantomime principle for showing how heavy an item is.

What is resistance of weight?

200

The area of the theatre where technicians run microphones.

What is the sound board?

200

Making smart choices in scenes

What is playing to the top of your intelligence?

200

How high or low your voice is

What is pitch?

200

Movement of actors on stage

What is blocking?

300

Heightened physicality, gestures, and facial expression

What is exaggeration?

300

The space where the audience sits.

What is the house?

300

Both scene partners are supporting each other

What is making your scene partner look good?

300

What you need to do in order for your voice to be heard 

What is project?

300

What the character wants in the scene

What is objective?

400
A clear beginning, middle, and end to a story.

What is plot?

400

The frame above our stage.

What is the proscenium arch?

400

The game where you take over the physicality for someone in your group and make a new scene.

What is freeze?

400

Where you should be breathing from in order to project

What is the diaphragm?

400

Low, middle, and high

What are levels?

500

The actress who we watched in a video smashing grapes

Who is Lucille Ball?

500
Type of curtain that blocks the audience from seeing the lights.
What is the teaser?
500

The name of the famous improv theatre in Chicago

What is Second City?

500

"Th" in "Thing"

What is unvoiced?

500

Upstage, downstage, and centerstage

What are planes?