WorksheetsPantomime - BHS Theater
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is an Aside?
Where the actors mime a section.
Where an actor asks the audience to participate.
A line spoken by an actor to the audience, but not intended for others on stage to hear. This should add information to the character or plot.
When the actors freeze on stage.
What does the term ‘audience participation’ mean?
When the actors on stage speak their thoughts to the audience.
When the actors freeze on stage.
When the company all sing together.
When the audience takes part in the action of the play. This could be through song, competitions, jokes or something else.
Who is the Pantomime Dame?
A traditional role in British Pantomime - often the mother role. These characters are often played in either an extremely camp style or else by men acting butch in women’s clothing.
The hero of the pantomime.
An evil or wicked character.
A very quiet character that speaks with a gentle voice.
Who is the Pantomime Villain?
A quiet gentle character that has a happy ending.
A wicked or evil character that is vanquished by the Hero.
A happy go lucky character that often gets things wrong.
The actor telling the story.
What does the physical term ‘gesture’ mean?
Non verbal communication through gestures, facial expression, behaviours and posture.
Using the different parts of your face to communicate emotion.
The motion of hands to emphasise or help to express a thought or feeling.
How you move around the stage.
What does the physical term ‘body language’ mean?
Non verbal communication through gestures, facial expression, behaviours and posture.
Using the different parts of your face to communicate emotion.
The motion of hands to emphasise or help to express a thought or feeling.
How you move around the stage.
What does the physical term ‘facial expression’ mean?
Non verbal communication through gestures, facial expression, behaviours and posture.
Using the different parts of your face to communicate emotion.
The motion of hands to emphasise or help to express a thought or feeling.
How you move around the stage.
A series of mimed actions or activities that normally follows a simple storyline with a beginning, middle, and end.
Pantomime/Pantomima (noun)
Mime/Mímica (noun)
Nonverbal Communication/Comunicación no verbal (noun)
Exaggeration/Exageración (noun)
A. the nonverbal imitation of an action or activity without the use of objects or properties.
B. A performer who uses only gesture, expression, and movement.
Pantomime/Pantomima (noun)
Mime/Mímica (noun)
Nonverbal Communication/Comunicación no verbal (noun)
Exaggeration/Exageración (noun)
a characteristic way of carrying one's body; how we sit and stand.
Gesture/Gesto (noun)
Cross/Cruzar (verb)
Resistance/Resistencia (noun)
Posture/Postura (noun)
