Theater Terms

What is a role in which the actor and the character are similar?

• Character Part

• Straight Part

• Supporting Role

• Protagonist

Who are those characters who act as contrasts to others; characters with whom other characters, especially the protagonist, are compared?

• Leading Roles

• Antagonist

• Character Part

• Supporting Roles

Who is the main character in a play?

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Supporting Role

• Character Part

Who are the main characters (more than one) in a play?

• Supporting Roles

• Leading Roles

• Character Parts

• Straight Parts

True or False: The playing of a role in such a way that the actor weeps, suffers, or struggles emotionally is known as subjective acting.

• True

• False

True or False: The use of learned skills of acting, movement, speech, and interpretation to create roles where no emotional response is used is known as objective acting.

• True

• False

What is a modulation (or variety) in pitch?

• Upstaging

• Blocking

• Enunciation

• Inflection

What is restating the lines of a script in one's own words?

• Summarizing

• Paraphrasing

• Inflection

• Script Scoring

Definition: Indicates the departure of two or more characters from the stage

• Flourish

• Exit

• Exeunt

• Hautboys

Definition: Words an actor speaks to the audience which other actors on the stage cannot hear

• Flourish

• Alarum

• Solus

• Aside