Theater Terms/Vocab Words

Front

Subtext?

Back

Thoughts underlying characters' actual words.

Front

Character's reason for actions or words.

Back

Motivation

Front

Stage business?

Back

Activities performed on stage as part of characterization.

Front

Intention in a scene:

Back

what the character wants in the scene

Front

__________________________ a character thinks on stage creates the character's interior monologue.

Back

The entire stream of thoughts

Front

Top or topping delivers a line so it is ________________________________.

Back

stronger than the one before it

Front

Reason and thought:

Back

An intellectual approach to discovering movement and vocal traits.

Front

Objective: What your character wants from the other person in the scene.

Back

What your character wants from the other person in the scene.

Front

Causing another actor to turn closed.

Back

Upstaging

Front

Studying __________ for character development is observation.

Back

other people as sources