THEATRE LEGAL
This is the person who writes the production for a stage.
What is a playwright?
This is the muscle you use to make your voice louder and project.
What is the diaphragm?
This is the main curtain that rises or falls.
What is the Grand Drape?
This piece of clothing can be turned inside out and is actually two different costumes.
What is a reversible?
The material used to cover the sides of the set so that the audience cannot see backstage.
What is masking?
This is a company that buys your protected script.
(hopefully!)
What is a publisher?
This what the director yells out when you don't face the front.
What is Cheat Out?
This curtain hides the lighting.
What is a teaser?
When costumes are almost finished, each actor moves on stage for director approval.
What is a costume parade?
A wall of a set.
What is a flat?
This is a script for a movie.
What is a screenplay?
This is what an actor should do to make his lines easily understood by the audience.
What is annunciating or annunciation?
This is the semi-opaque curtain that can display a silhouette.
What is a scrim?
A sample of fabrics to chose from for creating a costume.
What are fabric swatches?
The fourth wall of a set is known as this.
What is the audience?
This is the money (small percentage) that a writer of a play gets when someone performs his/her play and pays the company that has the rights to it.
What is a residual?
This is the arranged movement of the actor as directed by the director.
What is blocking?
This is the white curtain that is against the back of a stage that usually has many colored lights reflecting off of it for atmosphere.
What is a cyclorama?
The chart a costume designer uses to check whether an actor has all of his/her pieces of the costume.
What is the acquisition list?
Three or more walls of a set.
What is a box set?
This is the "protection" a playwriter should get as soon as he/she finishes writing the play.
What is a copyright?
This is the accent that tells the audience where a character is from.
What is dialect?
This is the rope that a techie pulls to open or close a curtain.
What is a purchase line?
A periodic costume that is NOT identical, but close enough for the audience.
What is modified authenticity?
Electricity and sometimes plumbing works in this set.
What is a live set?