Key Terms

Question 1

Abstract

Answer 1

Not realistic or life like, but instead using colours, shapes, textures sounds and other means to achieve an effect.

Question 2

Accent

Answer 2

A way of pronouncing words that is associated with a particular country,region or social class.

Question 3

Ad-libbing

Answer 3

Saying lines that aren’t in the script

Question 4

Amplification

Answer 4

How sound is made louder

Question 5

Analyse

Answer 5

To examine something, perhaps looking at different elements of it, and to explain it

Question 6

Apron

Answer 6

The area of the stage nearest the audience which projects in front of the curtain

Question 7

Archetypal

Answer 7

A typical example of someone or something; associated with an original or mythic quality of someone or something

Question 8

Asides

Answer 8

When a character breaks out of the scene to briefly speak to the audience

Question 9

Backdrop

Answer 9

A large painted cloth hung as part of the scenery

Question 10

Beehive

Answer 10

A hairstyle popular in the 1950s and 1960s which hair was combed back into a high cone

Question 11

Blackout

Answer 11

In lighting suddenly switching all the lights off

Question 12

Bower

Answer 12

An enclosed shady place under branches of trees

Question 13

Box office

Answer 13

Those who sell tickets

Question 14

Box sets

Answer 14

A set with three complete walls, often used in naturalistic set designs, example to create a believable room

Question 15

Chairography

Answer 15

Choreographed movement with chairs

Question 16

Clapboards

Answer 16

Wooden boards used to cover the outside of the buildings

Question 17

Covering

Answer 17

Learning the words and movements of a part that you do not usually perform

Question 18

Cross cutting

Answer 18

Alternating between two different scenes

Question 19

Cross fade

Answer 19

Fading lights out in one area of the stage while simultaneous bringing them up on another area

Question 20

Dirndl

Answer 20

A dress or skirt often seen in traditional Austrian or Bavarian outfits which is gathered at the waist and falls to about knee length

Question 21

Drapes

Answer 21

Curtains or other hanging fabric

Question 22

Episodic

Answer 22

A series of loosely connected scenes

Question 23

Fade in lighting

Answer 23

Gradually getting lighter or darker

Question 24

Fade in sound

Answer 24

Gradually getting louder or softer

Question 25

Filter

Answer 25

Gel like sheets of plastic that can change the colour of lights