Stage Directions
Which Way Do I Go?
Which Way Do I Go?
The performer is standing in the middle of the stage.
What is Center Stage?
A type of stage where the audience sits all the way around the performing area.
What is a Theatre in the Round or a "Full Round"?
A three-sided enclosed set, used for realistic scenes with detail and are not changed easily.
What is a Box Set?
A place where performers wait until it is their turn on stage, based on a color.
What is the Green Room?
This phrase is used instead of "Good Luck" in the theatre?
What is "Break a leg"?
The movements of the actors on stage, as given to them by the Director.
What is Blocking?
A stage that creates a frame or picture around the play being performed.
What is a Proscenium Arch?
A set traditionally used for musicals. Pieces may be moved easily to create a different scene.
What is a Unit Set?
When an actor forgets his lines on stage and another actor covers for them.
What is ad lib or ad libbing?
Although it is great to give flowers to a performer after a show, it is not O.K. to do this.
What is give flowers before the show?
Stepping beyond the Curtain Line or Proscenium Line towards the audience, the actor is now on this part of the stage.
What is the apron?
A piece of see-through scenery, much like a backdrop; used for special effects or to split the stage from front to back.
What is a scrim?
The scenery and set pieces are used in an abstract manner, to represent something within the play; a symbolic representation.
What is a Suggested Set?
An actor breaks the "fourth wall" and addresses the audience.
What is an aside?
A lamp on the stage kept on at night, when everyone has left the theatre for the evening.
What is a Ghost Light?
An actor is standing in the center of the stage and moves towards the audience and towards the left of the audience.
What is Down Center and move Right?
A piece of scenery used for location or to suggest a location, used upstage.
What is a backdrop?
This is a piece of the "set, however it is handled by an actor during the course of the play.
What is a Set Prop?
The Director asks you to have all your lines memorized by the next rehearsal, this is called...
What is "Off-Script"?
If a play calls for currency to be used, it must not be...
What is real money?
An actor stands in a position, so that he does not bring attention to himself and gives the attention to someone else.
What is Actor's Neutral?
The stage crew must do this at the end of a show, when it will no longer be performed or when it is moving to the next location. Everything on the set must be taken apart and stored or packed for travel.
What is to Strike the Set or Strike?
A prop handled by the actors, but is not part of the set; is this type of prop.
What is a Hand Prop?
A line delivered by a character intended for the audience to hear, and perhaps some characters and said in a "secret telling" voice.
What is a Stage Whisper?
The play that shall not be named or often referred to as "The Scottish Play". When performing this Shakespeare play the title must never be said in the theatre.
What is "Macbeth"?