Theatre Vocabulary

Question 1

A male or female person who performs a role in a play work of theater or movie

Answer 1

Actor/actress

Question 2

The planning and working out of the movements of actor

Answer 2

Blocking

Question 3

Center of the area is defined as the stage

Answer 3

Center stage

Question 4

A personality or role an actor/actress re-creates

Answer 4

Character

Question 5

A reading of a script done by actress who have not previously reviewed

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Cold reading

Question 6

A costume worn by an actor on stage during

Answer 6

Costume

Question 7

Opinions and comments based on predictor and criteria that may be used for self evaluation or the evaluation of the actors or the production itself

Answer 7

Critique

Question 8

The conversation between actor

Answer 8

Dialogue

Question 9

The art and technique of bringing the elements of theater together to

Answer 9

Directing

Question 10

The person who overseas the entire process of staging a production

Answer 10

Director

Question 11

The stage area toward the audience

Answer 11

Downstage

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Ensemble

Question 13

Detailed information, revealing the facts of a plot

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Exposition

Question 14

An expressive movement of the body or limb

Answer 14

Gesture

Question 15

Cosmetics is sometimes hairstyles. An actor wears on stage emphasize facial features, historical periods, characterizations, and so forth

Answer 15

Make up

Question 16

A long speech by a single character

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Monologue

Question 17

A character’s reason for doing or saying things and apply

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Motivation

Question 18

A type of entertainment containing music songs and usually dance

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Musical

Question 19

The tempo of an entire theatrical performance

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Pacing

Question 20

The highness or lowness of Voice

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Pitch

Question 21

A person who writes plays

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Playwright

Question 22

Items carried on stage by an actor, small items on the set used by the actors

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Props

Question 23

The view of the stage for the audience; also called the proscenium arch. The archway is a sense. The frame first stage is defined by the boundaries of the stage beyond which of you cannot see.

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Proscenium

Question 24

Practice sessions in which the actors in technicians prepare for public performance through repetition

Answer 24

Rehearsal

Question 25

Uses a noun, the stage area away from the audience; uses a verb, to steal the focus of a scene

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Upstage

Question 26

The characteristics of a voice such as a shrill, nasal raspy, breathing, booming and so forth

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Vocal quality

Question 27

The degree of loudness are in

Answer 27

Volume

Question 28

Work that focuses on suffering of characters in the darker experiences of human life

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Tragedy