Theatre I Test- Introduction to Theatre

This is the conversation between actors on the stage.

• Dialogue

• Play

• Script

• Ritual

This is one who writes the play.

• Actors

• Player-Audience Relationship

• Playwright

• Characters

This additional information provided by the playwright to give the actors instructions on how to feel or what to do when certain lines are spoken. These directions, usually in italics, are set apart from the dialogue by parenthesis.

• Dialogue

• Ritual

• Script

• Stage Directions

This is the term used to cover all parts of training or instruction in the field of theatre.

• Theatre

• Theater

• Drama

• Theatre Arts

This is the personality an actor portrays in a scene or play that is different from his or her own personality.

• Actors

• Characters

• Playwright

• Player-Audience Relationship

This is an actors assumed behavior for the purpose of projecting a character to an audience.

• Ritual

• Drama

• Acting

• Dialogue

This is the special interactive and “live” relationship that exists between the performers and the audience, connecting and bonding them into a team.

• Dialogue

• Player-Audience Relationship

• Ritual

• Stage Directions

This is the writing or performing of plays, as well as the formal study of the art form.

• Theater

• Dramatic Structure

• Theatre

• Drama

This is a written copy of the dialogue that the actors will speak.

• Play

• Script

• Dramatic Structure

• Stage Directions

This is the special literary style in which plays are written.

• Dialogue

• Script

• Play

• Dramatic Structure