Vocab Showdown

Direction to quickly begin the next line

• Cue Line

• Pick Up Cues

• Lines

• Tag Line

A character with no lines

• Actor

• Scene

• Walk On

• Objective

Money Paid to the playwright for permission to perform his/her play

• Salary

• Payment

• Coin

• Royalty

Information in the text not openly given, but implied

• Subtext

• Lines

• Text

• Script

An actor who learns the lines and staging in case another actor cannot perform

• Supporting Role

• Actor

• Understudy

• Walk On

Major Character

• Principal

• Mime

• Protagonist

• Actor

An actor who communicates through the body, gestures, and facial expression

• Understudy

• Pantomime

• Clown

• Mime

After the final performance of the production run, all technical effects are taken down ans stored

• Strike

• Tech

• Rehearsals

• Play

The result from an outcome, used for playing a characters objective

• Project

• Tag Line

• Tactics

• Stakes

Minor Characters that support the principal

• Supporting Role

• Walk on

• Understudy

• Mime