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The clothing worn by actors that are specific to the time and place of the play.
What are costumes?
The people watching the play.
What is an audience?
Directions from the director to the actors about where to go and what to do in a scene.
What is blocking?
The written text of the play
What is a script?
Short parts of the play that make up an act.
What is a scene?
Objects used during a play.
What are props?
Practices for performing the play.
What are rehearsals?
All of the actors in a play.
What is a cast?
A speech given by an actor when he or she is alone on stage.
What is a monologue?
Something used to magnify the actor's voice.
What is a microphone?
Worn by actors to accentuate their facial features on stage?
What is makeup?
The area of the theatre where the play takes place.
What is a stage?
Who is a director?
Directions in a script that tells the actor what to do and how to deliver certain lines.
What are stage directions?
A major section of the play, like a chapter in a book, that is usually made up of several scenes.
What is an act?
The stage and items on it that are used to give the illusion of the setting in the story.
What is set?
The area of the theatre behind the stage.
What is backstage?
The name of a play that is funny is called?
What is a comedy?
Something that conceals the actors or scene from the audience when it is closed.
What is a curtain?
Where did Mrs. West-Thompson go to college?
Clemson University
The moment after the play when the actors take their bows in front of the audience.
What is a curtain call?
Words spoken by the actors in a play
What are lines/ dialogue?
A play that does not have a happy ending is called what?
What is a tradegy?
Something used to light up the whole stage.
What is lighting?
What sports did Mrs. West-Thompson play growing up?
Basketball, swimming, soccer