A male or female person who performs a role in a play, work of theatre, or movie.
Actor/Actress
100
The written text of a play.
Script
100
The center of the area defined as the stage.
Center Stage
100
A reading of a script done by actors who have not previously reviewed the play.
Cold Reading
200
The person who oversees the entire process of staging a production.
Director
200
Items carried on stage by an actor; small items on the set used by the actors.
Props
200
The stage area toward the audience.
Down Stage
200
The conversation between actors on stage.
Dialogue
300
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.
Stage Crew
300
Opinions and comments based on predetermined criteria that may be used for self- evaluation or the evaluation of the actors or the production itself.
Critique
300
The left side of the stage from the perspective of an actor facing the audience.
Stage Left
300
Practice sessions in which the actors and technicians prepare for public performance through repetition.
Rehearsal
400
A personality or role an actor/actress re-creates.
Character
400
The point of greatest dramatic tension or transition in a theatrical work.
Climax
400
The right side of the stage from the perspective of an actor facing the audience.
Stage Right
400
The placement and delivery of volume, clarity, and distinctness of voice for communicating to an audience.