Theatre Arts Vocabulary

__________is a brief trial performance held to appraise an actor's/musician's talent or ability,

• Audition

• Rehearsal

• Spectacle

• Callbacks

__________________ is similar to a play, only it employs music to aid in the storytelling.

• Tragedy

• Choreography

• Comedy

• Musical

______________________ is the creative process of developing and executing aesthetic or functional designs in a production, such as costumes, lighting, sets and makeup.

• Strike

• Design

• Technique

• Blocking

________________ is a person who performs a role in a play, work of theatre or movie

• Character

• Actor

• Cast

• Director

____________ is an expressive movement of the body or limbs.

• Articulate

• Dialogue

• Gesture

• Soliloquy

______________ is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying emotion.

• Comedy

• Myth

• Script

• Tragedy

_____________ is the section of the stage floor which projects towards or into the auditorium on a proscenium stage.

• Apron

• Off Stage

• Audience

• Thrust Stage

_____________ is a signal, either verbal or physical, that indicates something else, such as a line of dialogue or an entrance is to happen.

• Cue

• Entrance

• Blocking

• Strike

________________ is the most traditional stage set-up. The stage is removed from the audience and framed by an arch that separates it from the audience.

• House

• Arena

• Thrust

• Proscenium

________________ is a performer who speaks directly to the audience to tell them part of the story, to give additional information, or to comment on the scene or the behavior of the characters.

• Actor

• Narrator

• Character

• Director