Theater Terms

Is in charge of creating or locating props and accessories for actors.

• Tech/Stage Crew

• Costume Designer

• Prop Master

• Director

An act of a drama is divided into multiple ______.

• narrators

• characters

• acts

• scenes

This picture shows the ____ of the play.

• characterization

• setting

• narrator

• scene

Acts

• The Chapters in a Drama/Play

• Show the changes in settings overtime

• story told in front of a live audience

• tools that are used to bring a scene

What is the act of planning and carrying out movements on stage?

• Blocking

• Subtext

• Inflection

• Upstaging

What is the act of improperly taking attention from an actor who should be the focus of interest?

• Upstaging

• Upstage

• Downstage

• Protagonist

Who is the person or the force working against the protagonist in a play?

• Character Part

• Supporting Role

• Caricature

• Antagonist

What is the use by an actor of a personal experience to relate to the experience of a character within a play?

• Blocking

• Substitution

• Subtext

• Characterization

What is the "meaning between the lines" that an actor must draw from the script?

• Substitution

• Inflection

• Subtext

• Paraphrasing

What is a distinctive action that is repeated and serves as a clue to a character's personality, such as a peculiar laugh or walk?

• Inflection

• Monologue

• Antagonist

• Master Gesture