Drama Vocab.
Drama Vocab. for test on Tuesday
Terms
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- Flats
- Raised platform used to create depth/height
- Set
- Collective term for scenery/props/lighting
- Composite
- Multiple setting/simultaneous stage setting 3 or more different location are presented at the same time on the stage
- Black Out
- Turn lights out to change scenery, ending
- Prompter
- If you lose your lines, this person will fill you in (in wings/trapdoor)
- Dialoge
- Conservation between two characters
- Choreography
- The plannning/execution of stage dance
- Amateur
- Beginner, doesn't earn a lot of money
- Stage Direction
- Instruction to preformers how to move/gesture/look
- Amphitheater
- A semi/circular auditorium surrounded by raised seating
- Ad Lib
- To make up and deliver lines not in the script (to cover forgotten lines)
- Acoustics
- The quality of sound transmission in a building
- Scenery
- Any of the varieous backgrounds to sugest a particular location
- Acting
- The performance of a role
- Act
- A major structural division in a play
- Cue
- Signal telling a preformer when to speak or respond physically
- Protagonist
- The main character, hero
- Improv
- A preformance made up as it is played
- Matinee
- Afternoon preformance of a play
- Tragedy
- A form and drama with a serious tone and unhappy ending
- Copy Right
- Legal ownership of a literary work
- Book
- Script(contains dialoge, not music/lyrics)
- Drama
- A story written to be preformed by actors, a play
- Scene
- Minor division in act/play
- Director
- Person who is in overall charge of the preformance
- Auditorium
- Area of theatre in which audience sits
- Antagonist
- A character in conflict with the main character
- Pastoral
- Dealing with rural life in an idealized manner
- Strike
- Destroy a set
- Actor/ess
- Preformer in a dramatic entertainment (play)
- Comedy
- A form of drama that has humerous content/ happy ending
- Audition
- Try out
- Box Office
- Area where tickets are purchesed
- Prop
- An object/article used by someone in the play
- Script
- Written text of a play
- Ham
- A preformer who overacts
- Costume
- Clothing worn on stage by preformers
- Aside
- Lines spoken by an actor directly to the audience rather to fellow actors who are assumed not to hear
- Catharsis
- Emotional purification of the audience ideally achieved at the end of a tradagy
- Soliquoy
- Long speech expressed by a lone acter on stage
- Exit
- To leave the stage
- Fly Space
- Area above stage used for lighting/heavy sets/pulley system/counter weights