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This is the area where actors perform
What is a stage?
A long speech by a single character
What is a monologue?
A spontaneous style of theatre in which scenes are created without advance rehearsing or scripting.
What is improvisation?
The person who oversees the entire process of staging a production.
What is a Director?
The personality or part an actor recreates.
What is a Character?
The printed words, including dialogue and the stage directions for a script
What is Text?
Coverings worn over the face or part of the face of an actor to emphasize or neutralize facial characteristics.
What are masks?
An expressive movement of the body or limbs.
What is a Gesture?
The stage area toward the audience.
What is Downstage?
The center of the acting area.
What is Center Stage?
The backstage technical crew responsible for running the show. In small theatre companies the same persons build the set and handle the load-in. Then, during performances, they change the scenery and handle the curtain.
What is a Stage Crew?
A type of entertainment containing music, songs, and, usually, dance.
What is musical theatre?
Literally, kind or type. In literary and dramatic studies, genre refers to the main types of literary form, principally tragedy and comedy. The term can also refer to forms that are more specific to a given historical era, such as the revenge tragedy, or to more specific subgenres of tragedy and comedy, such as the comedy of manners.
What is Genre?
A group of theatrical artists working together to create a theatrical production.
What is Ensemble?
. A person, a situation, or the protagonist's own inner conflict in opposition to his or her goals.
What is an antagonist?
A person who writes plays.
What is a Playwright?
. A character's reason for doing or saying things in a play.
What is motivation?
. A theatrical performance that focuses on small presentations, such as one taking place in a classroom setting. Usually, it is not intended for public view
What is informal theatre?
Means of communication characterized by the use of technology
What is Electronic Media?
. A signal, either verbal or physical, that indicates something else, such as a line of dialogue or an entrance, is to happen.
What is a Cue?
The degree of loudness or intensity of a voice.
What is Volume?
The height of an actor's head actor as determined by his or her body position
What is level?
One of the traditional forms of Japanese theatre, originating in the 1600s and combining stylized acting, costumes, makeup, and musical accompaniment.
What is Kabuki?
A comedy with exaggerated characterizations, abundant physical or visual humor, and, often, an improbable plot.
What is a Farce?
An improvisational, process-centered form of theatre in which participants are guided by a leader to imagine, enact, and reflect on human experiences.
What is a Creative Drama?