Drama Vocabulary

The first curtain upstage from the grand drape?

• Apron

• Adlib

• Act Curtain

The location where the tickets are sold?

• Backstage

• Box Set

• Box Office

The area not visible to the audience

• Batten

• Backstage

• Border lights

Setting the movement of a play of scene

• blocking

• adlib

• brace

To create lines spontaneously when necessary.

• cheating

• stage business

• adlib

To remove furniture, props, or people from the stage.

• masking

• clear

• counter

Moving from behind someone so one person will not be blocked by another.

• masking

• bracing

• counter

Actors/Actresses in a play or musical.

• choregrapher

• cast

• batten

a two wall of three wall set composed of flats representing an interior of a room.

• box office

• box set

• stage

The part of the stage projecting past the curtain line into the audience.

• act curtain

• apron

• downstage