Parts of the Stage
What is the fourth wall?
The imaginary wall that makes up the rest of the space in which the play takes place
What is the point or place in a script or stage directions when an actor comes on stage?
Entrance
What is it called when the director tells the actors where to stand or move on stage?
Blocking
These directions indicate in the script to the actors and director things like setting, mood of the play, or where a character should move.
Stage directions
What is the process where the director or casting director of a production asks actors / performers to show them what they can do?
Auditions
This is the area beyond the stage where the audience cannot see. This includes the wings, any cross-over space, and the dressing rooms.
Backstage
What is the name of the written form of a play? This is where we get information about characters, lines, and stage directions.
Script
This is usually the principal character whom the action revolves around.
Protagonist
What does it mean to rehearse without a script in your hand? In other words, the actor is completely memorized.
This term means to move from one side of the stage to the other.
Cross
This area is onstage to the left and right where the audience cannot see. Actors often wait for their entrances in the _________.
What is a speech that is written to be spoken by one person?
Monologue
This character is the person who provides obstacles to the protagonist’s objective in the play.
Antagonist
What is the name of the rehearsal close to opening night where a show is run with costumes, lights, and props? Sometimes there is an invited audience.
Dress rehearsal
When a director asks an actor to increase the volume of their voice, what word would they say?
Project!
This word means the seating within the auditorium.
House
What is the term used to describe when an actor leaves the stage?
Exit
What is it called in a script when two or more people are talking?
Dialogue
What does it mean when an actor loses concentration on stage, and is not in character?
The actor broke character.
This is the warning stage managers or directors will give actors to go to their positions for the opening of the show.
Places!
Dressing room or Green room
In a script, these are the divisions of a play or an act of a play. These usually represent a passage of time or a movement in location.
Scenes
What is the word for when an actor is supposed to say their line in the script? Usually another actor's line is the ____ for them to say their line.
Cue
What is the name of the group of supporting actors, dancers, and singers in a theatrical production?
Ensemble
This is a direction that a director will give an actor when they need to face out towards the audience while also talking to another character on stage.
Cheat out.