STAGE DIRECTIONS
This term means the actor moves toward the audience.
What is downstage?
This element refers to where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
A person in a story, play, or movie.
What is a character?
A frozen picture actors create with their bodies.
What is a tableau?
In a tableau, actors must remain completely ____.
What is frozen?
This is the actor’s right side from their own point of view.
What is stage right?
This is the message or lesson the audience should walk away with.
What is the theme?
A struggle or problem a character must face
What is conflict?
The instructions for actors about movement or emotion.
What are stage directions?
This is what actors use to show emotion without words.
What are facial expressions?
Moving toward the back of the stage away from the audience.
What is upstage?
Characters, setting, plot, theme
A struggle within a character’s mind or feelings.
What is internal conflict?
How loud or soft an actor speaks.
What is volume?
Freezing your body in a dramatic pose is called a ___.
What is a tableau?
This stage area is between center stage and the audience.
What is downstage?
These are the struggles or problems characters face in the story.
What is conflict?
The character who opposes the main character.
What is the antagonist?
Words actors speak onstage.
What is dialogue?
When performing a tableau, actors must not ___.
What is move?
If you are told to move “upstage left,” describe what direction you go.
What is toward the back and to your left?
Dialogue, stage directions, and character lists make up this item actors read.
What is a script?
(theme) A character tries multiple skills—music, sports, art—but quits each time things get difficult. After a big failure, they learn that success requires commitment and practice.
What is don't give up?
The careful arrangement of actors’ movements and positions onstage to make the scene visually clear for the audience.
What is blocking?
(theme) A student who always wants to be perfect learns it’s okay to make mistakes.
What is it's okay to fail?