Theatre Vocab
The term for when one character speaks for an extended time by him or herself. (spelling counts)
What is a monologue?
This is the jury's verdict at the end.
What is guilty?
These are the TWO basic vocal elements that any actor must meet in order to give a good performance.
What are speaking LOUDLY and CLEARLY?
This is a game which requires you to "say the name, THEN throw."
What is the yarn ball game?
The number of lines of text in a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is 14?
This term defines the part of the stage CLOSEST to the audience.
What is downstage?
This is the book from which the title for the play is taken.
What is the Bible? (Proverbs is also accepted)
This is the character's goal in a scene or play.
What is an objective?
You may only get to contribute the word "and" in this game.
What is "One Word Story"?
A Shakespearean sonnet ends with two rhyming lines called this.
What is a couplet?
If you are facing upstage and turn to YOUR right, you are facing this stage direction.
What is stage left?
This is the actual historical figure characterized by Matthew Harrison Brady.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
A director might give this direction to an actor who's back is to the audience.
What is "cheat out"?
This rule of improv means to agree with the premise and add new information.
What is "yes, and"?
The term for 5 pairs of alternating stressed-unstressed syllables in a line of a sonnet. (spelling counts)
What is iambic pentameter?
This is the term that refers to the type of stage which had a slant which led to the use of the terms "upstage" and "downstage."
What is "raked"?
This character paid bail for Bert.
Who is Hornbeck?
These are FOUR acting tools used to convey character and objective.
What are gestures, vocal expression, facial expression, and physical movement (or posture).
This game requires all lines to be spoken in the interrogative.
The number of sonnets that Shakespeare wrote.
What is 154?
Baker Theater in the Upper School is this type of stage.
What is a proscenium stage?
These are the full names of both authors of Inherit the Wind
Who are Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee?
This is the basic shape that is considered very strong in staging compositions.
What is a triangle?
This television show is names after an improvisation game.
What is "Whose Line is it Anyway"?
Finish this line: "Shall I compare thee..."
"...to a summer's day?"