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What is Theatre and Stage Movement

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

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Class
Date
1.

What area of the stage is number 1?

a)

upstage left

b)

upstage right

c)

downstage left

d)

downstage right

2.

What area of the stage is number 3?

a)

upstage left

b)

upstage right

c)

downstage left

d)

downstage right

3.

What are of the stage is number 5?

a)

center right

b)

downstage right

c)

center stage

d)

downstage center

4.

What are of the stage is number 9?

a)

downstage left

b)

downstage right

c)

upstage left

d)

upstage right

5.

What area of the stage is number 7?

a)

downstage right

b)

downstage left

c)

upstage right

d)

upstage left

6.

What area of the stage is UPSTAGE CENTER?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

4

d)

7

7.

What area of the stage is DOWNSTAGE CENTER?

a)

1

b)

3

c)

5

d)

8

8.

What area of the stage is CENTER STAGE RIGHT?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

9.

What area of the stage is CENTER STAGE LEFT?

a)

2

b)

4

c)

6

d)

8

10.

toward the audience

a)

upstage

b)

downstage

c)

stage left

d)

stage right

11.

away from the audience- toward the back wall

a)

upstage

b)

downstage

c)

stage left

d)

stage right

12.

slanted

a)

backstage

b)

onstage

c)

raked

d)

house

13.

behind the stage; out of view

a)

backstage

b)

onstage

c)

raked

d)

house

14.

the part of the stage that is visible to the audience

a)

backstage

b)

onstage

c)

raked

d)

house

15.

where the audience sits

a)

backstage

b)

onstage

c)

raked

d)

house

16.

having an action appear effortless and natural due to repeating the movement many times

a)

scenario

b)

downstage

c)

muscular memory

d)

gestures

17.

an outline of a play that includes details about the plot, movement, and gestures.

a)

scenario

b)

downstage

c)

muscular memory

d)

gestures

18.

movements of parts of the body, such as shrugging the shoulders

a)

scenario

b)

downstage

c)

muscular memory

d)

gesture

19.

toward the audience

a)

scenario

b)

muscular memory

c)

downstage

d)

gesture

20.

This type of theatre is what we usually think of as a "theatre".

Its primary feature is the ________, a "picture frame" placed around the front of the playing area of an end stage.

a)

Proscenium

b)

Thrust

c)

Arena

21.

A Stage surrounded by audience on three sides. The Fourth side serves as the background.

a)

Proscenium

b)

Thrust

c)

Arena

22.

A central stage surrounded by audience on all sides. The stage area is often raised to improve sightlines.

a)

Proscenium

b)

Thrust

c)

Arena

23.

The space between two curtain legs where and actor enters the stage or exits the stage.

a)

Wings

b)

Apron

c)

Boarder

d)

Grand Drape

24.

The part of the stage that falls before the Grand Drape

a)

Wings

b)

Apron

c)

Boarder

d)

Grand Drape

25.

The curtain that hides the lighting instruments.

a)

Wings

b)

Apron

c)

Boarder

d)

Grand Drape

26.

The big curtain at the front of the stage that opens and closes.

a)

Wings

b)

Apron

c)

Boarder

d)

Grand Drape