Collaboration Wheel - Theatre Terms

Cue

• a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed

• showing no friendliness toward a person or enthusiasm for an idea or project

• a thing said or done that serves as a signal to an actor or other performer to enter or to begin their speech or performance

• a raised floor or platform, typically in a theater, on which actors, entertainers, or speakers perform

Motivation

• a machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for some other device with moving parts

• what drives a character to say what he says and to do what he does

• An actor who specializes in playing eccentric or unusual people rather than leading roles

• a long curved fruit which grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe

fourth wall

• a large building or series of connected buildings containing a variety of retail stores and typically also restaurants

• when an actor ceases to maintain the illusion that they are the character they are supposedly portraying

• a universe theorized as existing alongside our own, although undetectable

• the space which separates a performer or performance from an audience

off book

• to allow someone who has been caught doing something wrong or illegal to go without being punished

• No longer needing the script to rehearse

• a set of clothes an actor wears while performing

• a piece of metal or other material, curved or bent back at an angle, for catching hold of or hanging things on

break character

• an involuntary spasm of the diaphragm and respiratory organs, with a sudden closure of the glottis and a characteristic sound like that of a cough

• the act of saying or pronouncing words clearly

• an insect related to the grasshoppers that makes characteristic rhythmical chirping sound

• when an actor ceases to maintain the illusion that they are the character they are portraying

sound effects

• a sound other than speech or music made artificially for use in a play, movie, or other broadcast production

• to forget one's lines in acting, especially on stage

• a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue)

• an illusion created for movies and television by props, camerawork, computer graphics, etc.

stage directions

• an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting

• stage positions

• center stage, center stage left, center stage right, upstage, upstage left, upstage right, downstage, downstage left, and downstage right

• a playwright's instruction to a director and actors

prop

• the words of an actor's part in a play or film

• a posture in which the head and shoulders are habitually bent forward

• a portable object other than furniture or costumes used on the set of a play or movie

• a practice or trial performance of a play or other work for later public performance

ensemble

• technical term for bad breath

• performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character

• the on-stage performers other than the featured players

• a person who learns another's role in order to be able to act as a replacement at short notice

projection

• the ability to make a sound, especially the voice, heard at a distance

• that which is used as a setting for a theatrical production

• an individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim

• an object that is used to project rays of light, especially an apparatus with a system of lenses for projecting slides or film onto a screen