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Actors Workshop Vocab
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Subject
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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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1. Words spoken by a character to the audience. The other character supposedly don't hear the speech
Cue-to-Cue
Aside
floodlights
motivate
2. Indications to the director and actors about carious aspects of the play - including information on characters - how a play should proceed - how a play should look - and the mood or effects of a play
stage directions
places
fourth wall
cut
3. Slanted floor - allowing each row of the audience to see over the heads of those in front
strike
handprops
share
raked house
4. Length of stage engagement for a performance
Dry tech
run
gesture
cheat
5. Permanent framed opening through which the audience sees the play
Cue-to-Cue
stage manager
levels
proscenium
6. Foundation color used for stage make up
Arena Theater
royalty
Open up
base
7. A sky drop that surrounds the back and sides of the stage
Cyclorama (cyc)
prompt book
Backstage
Aside
8. Set furnishings - including furniture - pictures - ornaments - drapes etc
properties (props)
understudy
focus
plot
9. Main character with whom the audience's empathy lies
royalty
teaser
protagonist
motivate
10. Keep the stage picture balanced OR decorations used to provide authenticity to the set and fill space
Dress the stage
mask
levels
batten
11. To play toward the audience while seemingly conversing with the others on stage
cut
cheat
levels
House lights
12. Opening in the stage floor that permits the actors to enter from beneath the floor or to exit beneath it
Fresnel
countercross
theme
trap
13. To play toward the audience
theme
Open up
cue
run
14. Imaginary wall between stage and audience
fourth wall
stage manager
Backstage
run through
15. Actor's lounge backstage
spotlight
greenroom
cue
Backdrop
16. Of or pertaining to the criticism of taste and the sense of the beautiful. Use of design principles and elements such as form - line - unity - variety and emphasis to create a pleasing work of art
walk on
wings
Aesthetics
Backstage
17. Loose weave curtain on battens used for 'visions' and 'flashbacks' etc opaque when lit from the front and transparent when lit from the back
scrim
fourth wall
cut
Backdrop
18. Three dimensional scenery piece which stands by itself - such as a rock
dark
pantomime
set piece
focus
19. Overhead curtain to mask the first border of lights and to regulate the height of the proscenium opening
cross
cheat
teaser
plot
20. The clear and precise pronunciation of words
exit
soliloquy
Articulation
project
21. Unit to control the intensity of lights
greenroom
stealing the scene
scrim
dimmers
22. Foundation color used for stage make up
cheat
base
cue
give
23. Seats can be arranged for proscenium - arena - or thrust staging
greenroom
Flexible theater
gesture
Open up
24. Lights without lenses used for blending and toning
plot
floodlights
teaser
Apron
25. Waiting for the audiences laughter to stop before continuing dialogue
color blind casting
floodlights
holding for laughs
cold reading
26. Bar to which rigging and ropes are tied
countercross
prompt book
fly rail
dimmers
27. Auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition
Flat
topping
cold reading
pantomime
28. Properties carried on stage by the actors during the play
handprops
plot
pantomime
cue
29. A small movement in the opposite direction to the cross made by another actor
cut
countercross
dimmers
pantomime
30. A part where the actor walks on and off the stage without having any line to say
set
cue
Flat
walk on
31. Transparent colored medium used in front of stage lights
Geletin (gel)
Cue-to-Cue
Cyclorama (cyc)
critique
32. One who can memorize a part rapidly
Cue-to-Cue
theme
quick study
Open up
33. Basic idea of the play that gives unity to all elements
give
theme
blocking
Arena Theater
34. Bodily movement and expression without dialogue
pantomime
Articulation
scrim
places
35. To play toward the audience while seemingly conversing with the others on stage
tryouts
tryouts
cheat
critique
36. Throw focus on the important character in a scene
give
Open up
topping
gesture
37. Off stage to right and left of the acting area
Antagonist
protagonist
Dry tech
wings
38. Change scenery
stage manager
shift
scoop
handprops
39. Set furnishings - including furniture - pictures - ornaments - drapes etc
Flexible theater
properties (props)
give
handprops
40. Run through of all the technical aspects without the actors
pit (orchestra pit)
Dry tech
Arena Theater
run
41. Evaluations and suggestions
critique
raked house
walk on
greenroom
42. To cover something from audience view
script
color blind casting
mask
share
43. Long speech given by a character when they are alone on stage to show their thoughts or to explain the plot; used frequently by Shakespeare
scoop
motivate
soliloquy
scrim
44. Rehearse scene without interruption
Ad-lib
cue
run
run through
45. To quickly begin a speech without allowing a pause between the first words of the speech and the cue.
properties (props)
walk on
Aside
pick up cues
46. To give lines and movement at the exact - effective moment
countercross
spotlight
shift
timing
47. Actor Who is able to play a given role in an emergency
Backstage
project
understudy
walk on
48. Length of stage engagement for a performance
timing
run
cross
Blackout
49. Opening in the stage floor that permits the actors to enter from beneath the floor or to exit beneath it
set
trap
Backstage
Cyclorama (cyc)
50. Warning for actors to assume their position on stage for the beginning of the scene
places
strike
business
spotlight