Warm Ups
This type of warm-up requires the actor to physically move around the space
What is a movement warm up?
This word is used in theatre to have all present actors and technicians stop what they are doing and pay attention to what's happening around them
What is hold?
This element is drama is usually listed as the most important according to Aristotle
What is plot?
This principle of improv relies on building off of a scene partner ideas rather the denying them
What is Yes, And?
This type of theatre is the first time women were allowed to perform in 16th Century Italy
What is commedia dell'arte?
This is the name for a warm up that requires one person to function as a leader and everyone else to repeat after them
What is a call-and-response?
This is what actor's do to maintain a healthy voice and still be heard from across the stage rather than yelling
What is projection?
This is what happens to kick off the plot in a play or a story
What is the inciting incident?
This usually italicized piece of writing in theatre shows us what is happening on stage, such as what characters are doing, how they say something, or where they are.
What is a stage direction?
This object was very important to both Greek theatre, Japanese theatre, and commedia dell'arte because of how efficient it made playing all sorts of different characters for actors
What are theatre masks?
This type of warm up is used to connect scene partners together so that they are on the same page
What is a focus warm up?
This is the word Laban uses to describes types of movement such as float, punch, or slash
What is an effort?
This is the mark made in a monologue to indicate emphasis
What is underline?
This is what the R in the acronym CROW stands for
This is the type of musical focused on flashy spectacle above all else and was largely led by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
What is the mega musical?
This warm up that we do is an example of a movement, focus, and bold type of warm up
What is Roll Around?
This vocal quality focuses on the over annunciation of consonants like 't' and 'b'
What is articulation?
This word is used to describe the end of a story or play
What is the resolution/denouement?
This improv game requires four players to be stationed in a box that rotated between four different two-player scenes, each with their own prompt
What is Channel Surfers?
This is the name of the author behind the radio plays The Hitchhiker, Sorry Wrong Number, and The Thing in the Window
Who is Lucille Fletcher?
This warm up is typically done for improv and requires that all players keep track of a number of random, invisible objects that the leader introduces throughout the game
What is Red Ball?
These two words describe the different ends of Laban's movement quality of Time
What is sustained and quick?
This element of drama is the most important in a mega musical such as Phantom of the Opera or Cats
What is spectacle?
This type of dialogue is used to subtly imply a meaning other than what is directly stated
What is subtext dialogue?
This is the earliest known form of theatre to exist in Latin America
What is ritual and celebration?