Semester 2 Theatre Pre-Assessment

A high school theatre performance is generally considered...

• Amateur Theatre

• Community-based Theatre

A group of people gathered to hear or watch something

• audience

• actors

• spectators

• crowds

The text in a play that tells the actors what to say and do

• stage directions

• speech

• script

• letters

A conversation between two or more characters

• monologue

• dialogue

• script

• course

a long speech by one actor in a play or movie

• monologue

• dialogue

• script

• course

What is a script?

• A book

• The written form of a play or musical

• A piece of paper

• A cast list

What is a character?

• The essence of who a person is; the person which an actor portrays

• What a person does while offstage

• An occupation held by a cast member

• The director of a play

What is a setting?

• The time and place of a story

• How an actor plays their character

• Where the props are placed

• How the director acts

What is improvisation?

• Acting with a script

• Another word for song

• A Director

• Acting without a script

Stage Crew

• The actors who are part of the cast

• the members of the technical crew who supervise and operate the various technical aspects of the production during a performance

• The people who clean the stage after the show

• The people responsible for designing costumes for the characters