Theater Vocabulary Lesson 1&2

Plot

• wandering singing story tellers

• new events or people introduced in a story that makes the problem more difficult to solve

• the order of events in a story

• acting on the spur of the moment with no planning

complications

• wandering singing story tellers

• new events or people introduced in a story that make the problem more difficult to solve

• acting on the spur of the moment

• who, what, were, when, why

improvisation

• acting without planning

• new events or people introduced in a story that make the problem more difficult to solve

• the order of events in a story

• wandering story tellers

troubadours

• new events or people introduced in a story that make the problem more difficult to solve

• who, what, where, why, when

• wandering singing story tellers

• new events or people introduced in a story that make the problem more difficult to solve

The Five Ws

• new events or people introduced in a story that make the problem more difficult to solve

• who, what, where, when, why

• singing traveling story tellers

• the events of a story

rising action

• the turning point of the story

• performance using only gestures and body movement

• the part of the story that leads up to the climax

• the choice and use of words in speech

pantomime

• performance using only gestures and body movement

• the events leading up to the climax

• the turning point of a story

• instructions for an actor on how and where to move and speak

stage directions

• the events that lead up to the climax

• the choice and use of words in speech

• instructions for an actor on how and where to move and speak

• performance using only gestures and movement

climax

• the choice and use of words in speech

• the parts leading up to the climax

• performance using only gestures and body movement

• the turning point of the story

diction

• the choice and use of words in speech

• the part of the story that leads up to the climax

• the turning point of the story

• performance using only gestures and body movements