8th Grade Drama Review

Small movements on stage that help establish what a character is doing. Not requiring an actor to move from place to place

• Acting

• Business

• Ad lib

• Dramatization

An actor developing a character needs to develop ____for that character

• an accent

• a backstory

• a dream board

• an observation

The reason a person responds or behaves in a certain way is a person's ____

• characterization

• motivation

• observation

• proclamation

• business

The term playwrights, actors, and directors use to signal the beginning of a play

• Let's go

• Freeze

• curtain call

• curtain up

What should an actor use to make the audience believe that what is happening on stage is real?

• The magic if

• suspense

• theatre games

• suspense belief

What person or group of people chooses the play, hires the director, and gets funding for the show?

• Director

• Publicity

• Marketing Manager

• Stage crew

• Producer

What person or group of people move scenery and set pieces during a show?

• Stage Manager

• Stage Crew

• Director

• Producer

• Set Designer

What person or group of people are in charge backstage during a show?

• Producer

• Stage Crew

• Stage Manager

• Director

What person or group of people are in charge of choosing the music for scenes and scene changes?

• Lighting Designer

• Director

• Stage Manager

• Sound Designer

• Costume Designer

What person or group of people are in charge of working with the blocking, running rehearsals, and casting?

• Director

• Stage Manager

• Producer

• Sound Designer

• Costume Designer