Theater
Acting
Design
Shakespeare
Miscellaneous
100
The section of the theater where the audience sits.
What is the HOUSE?
100
The acting technique that uses no words or props to tell a story.
What is PANTOMIME?
100
Six types of theatrical design.
What is PROPS, COSTUME, HAIR/WIG, MAKEUP, SET, LIGHTING, SOUND, PROJECTION, etc.?
100
Shakespeare's first name.
What is WILLIAM?
100
A group of actors/crew working together toward a common goal.
What is an ENSEMBLE?
200
The direction of the stage closest to the audience.
What is DOWNSTAGE?
200
What an actor needs to do in order for his/her voice to be heard clearly by the audience.
What is PROJECT? (ARTICULATE is acceptable as well)
200
The sheet of color used in front of theatrical lights.
What is a GOBO?
200
The name of the theater that Shakespeare's plays were originally performed.
What is THE GLOBE?
200
The spontaneous style of theatre using unrehearsed and unscripted acting scenes.
What is IMPROVISATION?
300
The type of staging when the audience is placed on three sides of the stage.
What is THRUST?
300
The way in which an actor holds his/her body to show age, health, confidence, and so on.
What is POSTURE/STANCE?
300
Mary Poppin's umbrella, an old man's cane, and Thor's hammer are this type of prop.
What are PERSONAL PROPS?
300
What Shakespeare left his wife in his will.
What is HIS SECOND BEST BED?
300
When a director decides where and when performers move on the stage.
What is BLOCKING?
400
The most common type of stage when the audience faces the actors on one side.
What is PROSCENIUM?
400
A character's inner drive that causes them to act a certain way.
What is MOTIVATION?
400
The taking apart of the sets after a production.
What is STRIKE?
400
Five of Shakespeare's plays.
What are (any of the 37 will count).
400
Eight skills used in theatre.
What are (anything that applies...)?
500
The nine common stage directions.
What are CENTER, UPSTAGE CENTER, DOWNSTAGE CENTER, STAGE LEFT, STAGE RIGHT, USR, USL, DSR, DSL?
500
A strategy a character uses to achieve their objective in a play.
What is a TACTIC?
500
The person who designs and creates the shoes for a play.
Who is a COBBLER?
500
The number of sonnets that Shakespeare wrote.
What is 154?
500
A technique of acting in which the actor tries to fully become the character by portraying them both on and off the stage.
What is METHOD ACTING?