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Theater Terms

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

To leave the stage

a)

Exit

b)

Enter

c)

Flee

d)

Escape

2.

Facing the audience, your right hand side is called...

a)

Stage Left

b)

Stage Right

c)

Down Stage

d)

Up Stage

3.

Facing the audience, your left hand side is...

a)

Stage Right

b)

Stage Left

c)

Up Stage

d)

Down Stage

4.

True or False: When you are facing AWAY from the audience, stage right and left DO NOT change.

a)

TRUE! Stage Right is always stage right.

b)

FALSE! The sides of the stage switch because theater is confusing

5.

To pay attention to a task, or to be very attentive to something is also called...

a)

Stage Left

b)

Makeup

c)

Focus

d)

Props

6.

When the audience can hear you speaking or singing, you are (a)   your voice.

7.

This is what is left unsaid.

a)

Secrets

b)

Lies

c)

Subtext

d)

Everything when I can't talk

8.

The space to the right and left of the stage is called...

a)

Wings

b)

Legs

c)

Apron

d)

Nothingness

9.

The narrow curtains that hang in the wings are called...

a)

Arms

b)

Wings

c)

Legs

d)

Spam

10.

The audience sits in the (a)   .

11.

Moving away from the audience you are going...

(a)  

12.

Moving toward the audience you are going...

a)

Stage right

b)

Stage left

c)

Down stage

d)

Center stage

13.

What a character wants in a scene is call his/her/their:

a)

Feelings

b)

Objective

c)

Prerogative

d)

Hamburger

14.

When and where you move on stage is called...

a)

Props

b)

Blocking

c)

Sets

d)

Fidgeting

15.

Your call time is...

a)

What time you called your friend

b)

When you shout "TIME!"

c)

The time you need to be at the theater before a show

d)

none of your business

16.

Your lines and blocking are memorized, and you no longer need your script. This is called being...

a)

Amazing

b)

Off Book

c)

On Book

d)

Backstage