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Styles
Stage Directions
Characters
Terms
Other
100
A style of performance designed to make the audience laugh
What is a comedy?
100
To come on to the stage
What is Enter?
100
This is a performer in a play
What is an actor?
100
This is the conversation in a play
What is dialogue?
100
What an actor wears to evoke the appearance of a particular character
What is a costume?
200
To leave the stage
What is exit?
200
The complement of actors in a play
What is the cast?
200
This is when one person has a conversation directed towards the audience
What is a monologue?
200
The various flats, drops, ect that are used to create the visual setting for a play
What is scenery?
300
This is a serious play, usually focused on emotions and character development
What is a drama?
300
The front of the stage closest to the audience
What is Downstage
300
He is usually referred to as the "ggod guy", or the hero/heroine
What is the protagonist?
300
When a character speaks what is on his mind. It differs from a monologue in that it is not directed at the audience
What is a soliloquy?
300
Where a play is taking place.
What is the setting?
400
This type of performance is usually disconnected from reality and may not make sense
What is a fantasy?
400
The area towards the back of the stage, away from the front edge
What is upstage?
400
Also, known as the villian, this character opposed the main hero
What is the antagonist?
400
This is what an actor gets if she forgets her lines
What is a prompt?
400
Stage movements and positions that a director works out with the actors during rehearsal to increase the dramatic effect.
What is blocking?
500
This type of comedy involves a character trying to remove themselves from a problem, usually a problem that they created themselves
What is a situation comedy, or sitcom?
500
When an actor improvises lines- usually because he forgot them
What is ad lib?
500
This is the person responsible to interpreting and bring the text of the play onto life on the stage
What is the director?
500
The line that comes directly before your line
What is a cue?
500
the lights that are located in the audience section, not on stage
What are house lights?