Stage Directions & Theater Terms - part 1

What is the term for the area of the stage that is closest to the audience?

• center stage

• upstage

• downstage

• backstage

What is the term for the area of the stage that is farthest from the audience?

• frontstage

• backstage

• centerstage

• sidestage

What is the term for the area of the stage that is to the actor's left when facing the audience?

• stage right

• stage left

• center stage

• backstage

What is the term for the area of the stage that is to the actor's right when facing the audience?

• Stage left

• Backstage

• Stage right

• Center stage

  imaginary wall dividing the actors from the audience

• fifth wall

• fourth wall

• third wall

• main wall

What is the term for a long speech delivered by a character alone on stage?

• Epilogue

• Dialogue

• Speech

• Monologue

What is the term for a conversation between two or more characters?

• narration

• soliloquy

• dialogue

• monologue

1. a written copy of the dialogue that the actors will speak

• Script

• Pages

• Monologue

• Dialogue

What is the term for the part of the stage that is hidden from the audience?

• Onstage

• Backstage

• Visiblestage

• Frontstage

1. additional information provided by the playwright to give the actors instructions 

2. on how to feel  or what to do when certain lines are spoken.  These are usually in italics, are set apart  from the dialogue by parenthesis.

• Ideas

• Blocking

• Stage Directions

• Business