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Actors Workshop Vocab
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. One who can memorize a part rapidly
timing
holding for laughs
quick study
batten
2. Auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition
cold reading
Backdrop
give
scrim
3. Direction for an actor to leave the stage....opposite of :enter'
exit
Articulation
project
cue
4. Staging with the audience sitting on all sides of the playing area
Arena Theater
levels
prompt book
cheat
5. Center attention on OR center light beam on
stage directions
run through
project
focus
6. Detailed bits of action such as knitting - setting the table - etc. as distinguished from broad stage movement
business
Aside
project
Apron
7. To play toward the audience
Open up
theme
raked house
Flat
8. Bar to which rigging and ropes are tied
Ad-lib
Cue-to-Cue
fly rail
royalty
9. To play toward the audience
Open up
tryouts
motivate
business
10. Directors planned movement for the characters
blocking
scrim
strike
Articulation
11. To play toward the audience while seemingly conversing with the others on stage
gesture
spotlight
Flexible theater
cheat
12. Properties carried on stage by the actors during the play
Aside
floodlights
handprops
timing
13. Lights without lenses used for blending and toning
cut
scrim
floodlights
levels
14. Actor's lounge backstage
focus
share
greenroom
Arena Theater
15. To have a specific reason for saying or doing something - to show character;s desires through voice and movement
cover
proscenium
prompt book
motivate
16. Deleten OR a command to stop action and dialogue
cut
dark
house
soliloquy
17. Three dimensional scenery piece which stands by itself - such as a rock
Flexible theater
cold reading
focus
set piece
18. Words spoken by a character to the audience. The other character supposedly don't hear the speech
Articulation
Aside
Blackout
grip (techie)
19. A combination of the proscenium and arena stages - with the audience sitting on two or three sides of the acting area
thrust stage
cheat
wings
Aesthetics
20. Permanent framed opening through which the audience sees the play
proscenium
house
pick up cues
fourth wall
21. Permanent framed opening through which the audience sees the play
Cyclorama (cyc)
break character
thrust stage
proscenium
22. Seats can be arranged for proscenium - arena - or thrust staging
exit
countercross
protagonist
Flexible theater
23. Change scenery
set piece
shift
Backdrop
greenroom
24. Last words or action of one actor that immediately precede another actor's speech OR a signal for light changes - curtains - etc.
cue
teaser
protagonist
critique
25. Loose weave curtain on battens used for 'visions' and 'flashbacks' etc opaque when lit from the front and transparent when lit from the back
Cue-to-Cue
scrim
Articulation
run
26. The director's technical liaison backstage during rehearsals and performances
stage manager
callback
greenroom
stealing the scene
27. Detailed bits of action such as knitting - setting the table - etc. as distinguished from broad stage movement
base
tryouts
Antagonist
business
28. Contains script - blocking notations - warnings -crew charts - and other information necessary for producing the play
prompt book
greenroom
break character
quick study
29. Foundation color used for stage make up
mask
base
grip (techie)
theme
30. A small movement in the opposite direction to the cross made by another actor
countercross
exit
Arena Theater
trap
31. Foundation color used for stage make up
mask
take stage
greenroom
base
32. A floodlight with an ellipsoidal reflector - can be hung from battens
countercross
theme
scoop
Ad-lib
33. Imaginary wall between stage and audience
fourth wall
run through
cold reading
share
34. To exceed the tempo and pitch of the previous speech
Dress the stage
wings
topping
dark
35. Printed or typewritten copy of the play
work lights
take stage
project
script
36. A part where the actor walks on and off the stage without having any line to say
places
color blind casting
walk on
run through
37. The director's technical liaison backstage during rehearsals and performances
handprops
fourth wall
cross
stage manager
38. Main character that opposes the protagonist
fourth wall
Antagonist
blocking
Geletin (gel)
39. To give lines and movement at the exact - effective moment
teaser
fourth wall
timing
scrim
40. To have a specific reason for saying or doing something - to show character;s desires through voice and movement
understudy
stage manager
soliloquy
motivate
41. Transparent colored medium used in front of stage lights
set
Geletin (gel)
exit
critique
42. A floodlight with an ellipsoidal reflector - can be hung from battens
levels
Flat
Backdrop
scoop
43. Transparent colored medium used in front of stage lights
stage directions
Geletin (gel)
House lights
pick up cues
44. Rehearse scene without interruption
walk on
House lights
base
run through
45. Printed or typewritten copy of the play
script
stealing the scene
pit (orchestra pit)
gesture
46. The clear and precise pronunciation of words
run through
Articulation
business
callback
47. Platforms or a body position of carious heights
understudy
levels
cover
properties (props)
48. Opening in the stage floor that permits the actors to enter from beneath the floor or to exit beneath it
callback
greenroom
trap
Cue-to-Cue
49. A sky drop that surrounds the back and sides of the stage
understudy
Cyclorama (cyc)
Articulation
Aesthetics
50. An actors move from one part of the stage to another
topping
royalty
cross
fourth wall