Roles in Theater

This person oversees the production. Their job is to unify all aspects from acting to staging pictures. They must also define a vision for stage lighting, sound, set, and costumes that all crew members and actors must follow.

• Actor

• Director

• Playwright

This person writes the play

• Actor

• Director

• Playwright

This person combines the words of the playwright and the direction of the director to bring a character to life.

• Actor

• Director

• Playwright

To determine stage right & stage left, you stand

• looking out at the audience

• facing away from the audience

If you are told to move downstage, you move

• toward the front of the stage where the audience is.

• toward the back of the stage away from the audience.

If you are told to move upstage, you move

• toward the front of the stage where the audience is.

• toward the back of the stage away from the audience.

The easiest way to determine what type of stage you are looking at is to pay attention to . . .

• the actual shape of the stage

• what kind of event is being held on it

• where the audience sits

What type of stage is this?

• arena stage

• flexible

• proscenium

• thrust

What type of stage is this?

• arena stage

• flexible

• proscenium

• thrust

What type of stage is this?

• arena stage

• flexible

• proscenium

• thrust