WorksheetsTheatre Term List 1
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Readings before a director to determine casting of a play
Audition
Callback
Places
Strike
The set movement of all the actors on stage throughout the play.
Exit
Call back
Blocking
Direction
An additional audition for the final actors being considered. Similar to semifinals in sports.
Audition
Call back
Run through
Improvisation
Movement from one area of the stage to another.
Counter-cross
Cross
Center stage
Blocking
A direction given to all actors, musicians, and technicians to leave the stage
Clear the stage
Places
Blocking
Run through
A small movement in the opposite direction to the cross made by another character.
Cross
Counter-cross
Take the stage
Places
A direction given to all performers to go to their spot at the start of the play
Blocking
Clear the stage
Places
Cross
Command to leave the acting area.
Places
Take the stage
Cross
Exit
The time the actor is to report to rehearsal or the performance.
Dress rehearsal
Call time
Places
Take the stage
Rehearsal conducted as if it was an actual performance.
Improvisation
Take the stage
Cross
Dress rehearsal
Taking down, changing out and putting away costumes, props and set pieces after a production.
Strike
Run through
Dress rehearsal
Call time
A spontaneous style of acting using unrehearsed and unscripted acting scenes.
Improvisation
Curtain call
Strike
Dress rehearsal
An uninterrupted rehearsal of a scene, act, or the entire play.
Curtain call
Counter-cross
Run through
Stike
Bow at the end of the show
Strike
Cross
Dress rehearsal
Curtain call
A term of warning used to call attention to overheard danger.
Heads up!
Exit
Countercross
Run through
The area of the stage that is the furthest from the audience.
Stage right
Stage left
Upstage
Downstage
The area of the stage that is the closest to the audience.
Upstage
Stage left
Downstage
Stage right
The right side of the stage from the actor’s point of view (facing the audience).
Stage right
Stage left
Center stage
Downstage
The left side of the stage from the actor’s point of view (facing the audience).
Stage left
Stage right
Downstage
Center stage
Center of the stage
Downstage
Full front
Center stage
Upstage
Facing the stage
Countercross
Full front
Upstage
Downstage
Facing away from the stage
Full front
Center stage
Countercross
Full back
