An actor who communicates entirely by gesture, body movements and facial expressions.
What is a mime?
100
Four games that involve children role-playing.
What is
1.) House
2.) Cops and Robbers?
3.) Cowboys and Indians?
4.) Shopkeeper and Customer?
100
Occurs when actors read scripts for the first time.
What is a cold reading?
100
A lighting bar that is et downstage of the proscenium arch.
What is the advance bar?
200
Refers to the behavior of sound in certain areas and usually depends upon the size and shape of a space, as well as the presence of any sound absorbing materials.
What is acoustics?
200
These lights are positioned to shine down upon an actor or scene from above or behind the subject.
What is back light?
200
The ability to clearly pronounce words while acting or performing.
What is articulation?
200
The conditions or climate in which a play was written or meant to be performed.
What is the context?
200
A light with a tight beam that produces very intense light, originally used as an aircraft landing light.
What is an aero?
300
The space on a stage or in another performance space in which an actor can move while remaining in full view of the audience.
What is the acting area.
300
Top lights are also called this and are positioned directly above the subject.
What are down lights?
300
Developing the movements of actors on stage in relation to other actors, scenery and props.
What is blocking?
300
A signal that serves as an indicator of another action that is about to occur.
What is a cue?
300
The sound that exists in a room when no sound sources are present.
What is ambient noise?
400
Refers to the script that contains notes for actors or technicians and may be written by the playwright or the premiere production staff.
What is the acting edition?
400
Bottom lights are called this and are positioned in front of and beneath the subject.
What are up lights?
400
The purging of an emotion, such as fear or grief, while performing on stage.
What is catharsis?
400
An effect to remind an audience that they are reading a play.
What is the alienation effect?
400
The units of measurement that refer to the electrical current passing through a circuit.
What is an ampere?
500
Occurs when an actor must improvise lines or actions to compensate for forgetting their own or for another actors lapse in memory.
What is an ad lib?
500
The ability of an actor to be in character through use of dialogue, attitude, voice, costume, expressions and mannerisms.
What is concentration?
500
This German dramatist wanted to maintain a distance between the audience and the performance on stage.
Who is Bertolt Brecht?
500
A piece of sound equipment that converts a low voltage signal into a higher current signal.