THE ACTOR
A role in a play or scene.
What is a character?
A professional in the theatre who sets and oversees the creative vision for the production.
Who is the director?
The place where the audience sits when they watch the show.
What is the house?
An extended uninterrupted speech by a character.
What is a monologue?
A live performance of a story by actors for an audience.
What is theatre?
What the character wants.
What is an objective?
Terms indicating specific locations on a stage.
What are stage directions?
A room in a theatre where performers relax when they are not onstage.
What is the green room?
A conversation between 2 or more characters.
What is dialogue?
A group of people working together to achieve a creative goal.
What is an ensemble?
Voice, body, imagination, and personal experience.
What are the actor's tools?
The study of a script to understand the underlying structure and themes of the play’s story, and the motives and objectives of its characters.
What is script analysis?
Anything moveable on the stage that is not part of the set, costumes, or lighting.
What are properties (or props)?
The time and location of a scene.
What is the setting?
A person who supports the theatre by attending performances and/or contributing financially.
What is a patron?
A person or thing that keeps a character from achieving his or her objective.
What is an obstacle?
The planned physical movement of actors to help tell the story and direct the audience’s attention.
What is blocking or staging?
Required by Actor's Equity Association "for any Actor who may become ill during a rehearsal or performance". Informally used for union members to sleep or rest.
What is the Equity Cot?
The problem or struggle in a play.
What is the conflict?
Creating character, action, dialogue, and plot in the moment.
What is improvisation (or improv)?
A strategy a character uses to achieve his/her objective (an actable verb).
What is a tactic?
When an actor no longer uses the script during rehearsals.
What is off-book?
The place where tickets are sold.
What is the Box Office.
Relating to a specific type of theatre such as a tragedy, drama, melodrama, comedy, or farce.
What is genre?
An aspect of the human condition under investigation in the drama; a central idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly.
What is the theme?