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Technical Words Used In Drama And Theater Flashcards

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1
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Area where actors perform

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Stage

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Non-acting area behind the stage

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Backstage

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The back wall of the stage which can be painted or lit

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Cyclorama

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Area above the stage from where scenery/actors are flown in on pulleys

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Flies

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Left-hand side of the stage where prompter and stage manager shoots during a performance

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Prompt side

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Short for properties—objects used by an actor

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Props

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Audience follows the action on foot, moving from one location to another

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Promenade

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To come on stage

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Enter

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A remark to the audience only

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Aside

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Blocks or platforms used to create levels

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Rostrum

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An item placed on set, usually part of it e.g., a lamp, clock, picture.

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Set prop

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What the audience sees of the stage from where they are sitting

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Sight lines

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A single lengthy speech, made when no other characters are on stage

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Soliloquy

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Attitude or position of the body

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Stance

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A stage picture, held without movement

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Tableau

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Speaking, moving, or pausing at exactly the right moment

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Timing

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Door in a floor

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Trapdoor

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Stairs

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Treads

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Recorded speech played during a drama

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Voiceover

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People watching a drama

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Audience

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The area for the audience, generally filled with seats

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Auditorium

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The height of an actor’s head actor as determined by his/her body position (e.g., sitting, lying, standing, or elevated by an artificial means)

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Level

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Cosmetics and sometimes hairstyles that an actor wears on stage to emphasize facial features, historical periods, characterizations, and so forth

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Makeup

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Coverings worn over face or part of the face of an actor to emphasize or neutralize facial characteristics

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Masks

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An incident art form based on pantomime in which conventionalized gestures are used to express ideas rather than represent actions.

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Mime

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A long speech by a single character

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Monologue

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The tempo of an entire theatrical performance

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Pacing

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Acting without words through facial expression, gesture, and movement

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Pantomime

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Highness or lowness of voice

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Pitch

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The orientation of the actor to the audience (e.g., full front, right profile, left profile)

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Position

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The placement and delivery of volume, clarity, and distinctiveness of voice for communicating to an audience

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Projection

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The view of the stage for the audience; is in sense the frame for stage as defined by the boundaries of the stage beyond which a viewer cannot see

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Proscenium

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Almost anything brought to life by human hands to create a performance. Types include rod, hand, and marionette

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Puppetry

34
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A rehearsal moving from start to finish without stopping for corrections or notes

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Run-through

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The written text of the play

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Script

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The backstage technical crew responsible for running the show. In small theater companies the same persons build the set and handle the load-in. Then during performances, they change the scenery and handle the curtain.

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Stage crew

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The director’s liaison backstage during rehearsal and performance, is responsible for the running of each performance

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Stage manager

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Established characters, such as young lovers, neighborhood busybodies, sneak villains, and overprotected fathers, who are immediately recognizable by an audience

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Stock characters

39
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Audience seated on two sides of the acting area

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Avenue

40
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Canvas cloth which covers the back of the stage, can be painted

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Backcloth

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The acting area is not lit

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Blackout

42
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Deciding where and when actors will move on stage

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Blocking

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Specific person in a drama

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Character

44
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Clothes worn by actors for their character

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Costume

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To change from one lighthing/sound cue to another with no blackout/silence in between

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Crossfade

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Conversation between two or more characters

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Dialogue

47
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Actions or remarks whose significance is not realized by all the characters

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Dramatic irony

48
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Final rehearsal of a drama with all the theater arts

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Dress rehearsal

49
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The stress on a word or phrase

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Emphasis

50
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Audience seated at one end, acting area at the other

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End on

51
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To leave the acting area

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Exit

52
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Acting out an event in the past

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Flashback

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Acting out a future or imagined event

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Flashforward

54
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Wooden frames, joined together and covered with canvas, which can be painted

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Flats

55
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Frames into which a door is built

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Door flat

56
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Reading of a script done by actors who have not previously reviewed the play

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Cold reading

57
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A signal, either verbal or physical, that indicates something else, such as a line of dialogue or an entrance, is to happen

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Cue

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The creative process of developing and executing aesthetic of functional designs in a production, such as costumes, lighthing, sets, and makeup

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Design

59
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The art and technique of bringing the elements of theater together to make a play

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Directing

60
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The particular literary structure and style in which plays are written.

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Dramatic structure

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Specific in depth-knowledge and literary resources to a director, producer, in theater company, or even the audience

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Dramaturgy

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A group of theatrical artists working together to create a theatrical production

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Ensemble

63
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A comedy with exaggerated characterizations, abundant physical or visual humor, and often, an improbable plot

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Farce

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A spontaneous style of theater through which sense are created without advance rehearsal or a script

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Improvisation

English Third Quarter (pang Week 6) (1 decks)

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