Playing Space
The most commonly used type of stage for classic theatre plays/productions.
What is a Proscenium Stage?
The stage direction that is in the middle of the stage is called...
Center Stage
The person that guides the actors and helps bring the vision of the play to life.
What is the Director?
Shakespeare's first name. Where there's this, there's a way.
What is Will(iam)?
The term for trying out for a role in a play.
What is an Audition/Auditioning
A simple, adaptable acting space with black walls and a flat black floor.
What is a Black Box theatre?
Stage movements are from this person's perspective.
Who is the actor?
This technical piece of equipment is usually used to create mood onstage.
What is a stage light/stage lighting?
This play about a brooding Danish prince is truly a tragedy.
What is Hamlet?
Actors traditionally say this instead of “good luck.”
What is “Break a leg”?
Another name for theatre "in the round."
What is Arena Theatre?
The space where the audience sits. In a sense, their paid residence.
What is the House?
This technical tool is used to disguise an actor's skin and facial appearance.
What is stage makeup?
The name of the theatre where many of Shakespeare's plays were performed.
What is the Globe Theatre?
The term for speaking loudly and clearly on stage. Kind of like casting the movie from the back of the room to the screen.
What is Projection?
This side area of the stage is out of sight of the audience. It's kinda like Red Bull.
What are wings?
An actor standing on a stage, facing the audience with their entire body, is said to be in this body position.
What is Full front?
This area is used when raising or lowering backdrops from the stage. A 90's term for "cool."
What is the Fly Space.
Truly the cheap seats, patrons who stood in front of the state were called by this term that described what they were standing on.
What are Groundlings?
Movements that actors use to perform basic tasks on stage. They might turn these into a full-time job.
What is Business?
The part of a proscenium stage that extends in front of the arch. Helps the actors cook?
What is the Apron?
Stages used to be described as this. A gardening term from which we get 'upstage' and 'downstage.'
What is Raked?
The design element responsible for creating the physical environment of the play. Could give you a good view!
This 2026 movie dramatized a portion of Shakespeare's married life.
What is Hamnet?
The term for information character's speak out loud for the audience's benefit. Also, where your former girlfriend is now standing.
What is "Exposition"?