Theater Terms

To leave the stage

• Exit

• Enter

• Flee

• Escape

Facing the audience, your right hand side is called...

• Stage Left

• Stage Right

• Down Stage

• Up Stage

Facing the audience, your left hand side is...

• Stage Right

• Stage Left

• Up Stage

• Down Stage

True or False: When you are facing AWAY from the audience, stage right and left DO NOT change.

• TRUE! Stage Right is always stage right.

• FALSE! The sides of the stage switch because theater is confusing

To pay attention to a task, or to be very attentive to something is also called...

• Stage Left

• Makeup

• Focus

• Props

When the audience can hear you speaking or singing, you are _________________ your voice.

This is what is left unsaid.

• Secrets

• Lies

• Subtext

• Everything when I can't talk

The space to the right and left of the stage is called...

• Wings

• Legs

• Apron

• Nothingness

The narrow curtains that hang in the wings are called...

• Arms

• Wings

• Legs

• Spam

The audience sits in the ___________.