Basic Theatre Terms

What is the light biege color in the middle highlighting?

• Skene

• Proskenium

• Paraskenia

• Parados

• Orchestra

What is the orange highlight?

• Thymele

• Prohedria

• Diazomata

• Kerkides/Cunei

• Theatron

What is the purple at the top highlighting?

• Thymele

• Prohedria

• Diazomata

• Kerkides/Cunei

• Theatron

What is the light green to the left highlighting?

• Thymele

• Prohedria

• Diazomata

• Kerkides/Cunei

• Theatron

What is the dark blue on the right highlighting?

• Thymele

• Prohedria

• Diazomata

• Kerkides/Cunei

• Theatron

to act out a story or situation with movement only, without any spoken dialogue  

• pantomime

• plot

• props

• role

What does it mean to slate?

• Walk in a circle around the stage

• run across the stage and slide until you fall

• bow at the end of an audition and say scene

• introduce yourself with name and what you are reading and who you are reading for before an audition

to ad-lib or invent dialogue not in the script  

• improvisation

• makeup

• mimicry

• monologue

What is acting(long speech) done by one person called, ?

• Duet

• Monotone

• Monologue

• Solo Acting

What is Downstage?

• The part of the stage nearest the audience

• The part of the stage farthest from the audience

• The part of the stage left of the audience

• The area of the stage left of the actor