Theatre Vocabulary Flashcards
A male or female person who performs a role in a play work of theater or movie
Actor/actress
The planning and working out of the movements of actor
Blocking
Center of the area is defined as the stage
Center stage
A personality or role an actor/actress re-creates
Character
A reading of a script done by actress who have not previously reviewed
Cold reading
A costume worn by an actor on stage during
Costume
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
Critique
The conversation between actor
Dialogue
The art and technique of bringing the elements of theater together to
Directing
The person who overseas the entire process of staging a production
Director
The stage area toward the audience
Downstage
A group of theatrical artists working together to create a theatrical production
Ensemble
Detailed information, revealing the facts of a plot
Exposition
An expressive movement of the body or limb
Gesture
Cosmetics is sometimes hairstyles. An actor wears on stage emphasize facial features, historical periods, characterizations, and so forth
Make up
A long speech by a single character
Monologue
A character’s reason for doing or saying things and apply
Motivation
A type of entertainment containing music songs and usually dance
Musical
The tempo of an entire theatrical performance
Pacing
The highness or lowness of Voice
Pitch
A person who writes plays
Playwright
Items carried on stage by an actor, small items on the set used by the actors
Props
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.
Proscenium
Practice sessions in which the actors in technicians prepare for public performance through repetition
Rehearsal
