Readers' Theatre Vocabulary

Students play characters who perform lines and/or a narrator who shares necessary background information

• blocking

• readers' theatre

• set design

• playwriting

A rehearsal to go through an act or the entire play from beginning to end with as few interruptions as possible

• read through

• readers' theatre

• run through

• performance

The conscious repetition of lines and movements in a play

• blocking

• memorize

• read through

• rehearsal

How you move your hands, arms and fingers

• gestures

• upstage

• research

• script

A pledge or promise; obligation

• gestures

• commitment

• focus

• giving stage

The imaginary person, thing or animal the actor pretends to be on stage

• upstage

• script

• character role

• gestures

To concentrate attention or effort

• rehearsal

• memorize

• blocking

• focus

A complete reading of a play aloud by the assembled cast

• read through

• rehearsal

• gestures

• giving stage

The systematic study of materials and sources

• scholar

• blocking

• gestures

• research

The planning and working out of the movements of actors on stage

• gestures

• blocking

• memorize

• rehearsal