Theater Language of Acting 30-41

Places

• the car you drive

• the stage command for actors to take their positions

• all the stage furnishings

• the analysis of a character

Pace

• To plan stage business, as to plot the action

• to raise the curtain

• the marking of a script for one character

• the movement or sweep of the play as it progresses

Principals

• the main characters in a play

• small props that are usually carried in an actor´s costume

• to speak when someone else is speaking

• to plan stage business

Overlap

• to speak when when someone else is speaking

• small props that are usually carried in the actorś hands

• emphasizing an idea

• to raise the curtain

ring up

• the analysis of a character

• all the stage furnishings

• to raise the curtain

• emphasizing an idea

Personal Props

• the main characters in a play

• the analysis of a character

• marking the script

• small props that are usually carried in actor´s costume (money, matches, a pipe, or pen)

Plot

• to plan stage business, as to plot the action

• emphasizing an idea

• the scenery for an actor a scene

• the movement or sweep of the play as it progresses

Pointing Lines

• the marking of a script for one character

• the analysis of a character

• emphasizing an idea

• the main characters in a play

set

• marking of a script for one character, indicating interpretation, pauses, phrasing, stress, and so on

• the analysis of a character

• the scenery for an act or a scene

• to plan stage business

script scoring or scripting

• the stage command for actors to take their positions at the opening of an act or scene

• all the stage furnishings, including furniture

• the marking of a script for one character, indicating interpretation, pauses, phrases, stress, and so on

• to raise the current