Directing and Acting Vocab

Coordination of actors movements onstage

• Offbook

• Face

• Blocking

• Spike

The event that sets into motion the action of a plot

• Inciting incident

• Exposition

• Drama

• Strike

The beginning part of a plot that provides important background information

• Inciting incident

• Fourth wall

• Climax

• Exposition

The final resolution of the conflict in a plot

• Climax

• Stage buissness

• Dénoument

• Comedy

Comedy with exaggerated charicteraziton, abundant physical or visual humor, and often an improbable plot.

• Strike

• Comedys

• Farce

• Climax

An Imaginary wall between the audience and the actors in a representational play.

• Risising Action

• Fourth Wall

• Cue line

• Read Through

Rehearsing without a script after lines are memorized; as opposed to on book, rehearsing without a script

• Off book

• Spike

• Fourth Wall

• Resolution

A complete reading of a play aloud by the assemble cast, usually at the first rehearsal

• Read-Through

• Off book

• Drama

• Stage Buissness

To remove a set piece from the stage

• Drama

• Blocking

• Climax

• Strike

To march the floor of a rehearsal space that indicates significant parts of a ground plan

• Off book

• Cue line

• Spike

• Farce