Theatre Vocab

Front

What term describes a spontaneous performance where students invent a scene on the spot during a theater class?

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Improvisation

Front

What term describes the act of creating lines spontaneously in a school play?

Back

Improvise

Front

The students are performing a play in front of an audience. What term refers to the group of people watching the performance?

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Audience

Front

The script is the written dialogue that the actors are going to say.

Back

True

Front

In a play, actors portray different roles such as the hero, the villain, and the companion. What term describes these personalities that the actors embody?

Back

Characterization

Front

During a scene in a play, an actor deliberately tries to draw attention away from another actor. What term describes this behavior?

Back

Upstaging

Front

What term describes the process of dismantling the set and clearing the stage after the last performance of the play?

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Strike

Front

A person who writes plays is called a director.

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False

Front

What term describes the technique of speaking with strength and clarity?

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Projection

Front

The conversation between actors on stage is called:

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Dialogue