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- stage manager
- the directors technical assistant backstager during rehearsals and performance
- resonance
- a quality caused by vibration that enriches vocal tone
- gesture
- an expressive movement of the body or limbs
- script
- txt of the play
- cold reading
- if you have an unavailable script before an audition, you use this
- upstage
- the stage area away from the audience
- pantomime
- acting without words though facial expression and gesture
- improvise
- to speak or to act without a script
- resonators
- the part of the body that creates vowel sounds
- apron
- the acting area of the stage that extends beyond the proscenium
- jonathon larson
- director of rent
- thrust stage
- combination of the proscenium and the arena stages, with the audience sitting on two or three sides of the actin area
- house
- the auditorium, or the area where the audiences sits
- project
- to make your voice fill the performance space
- inflection
- variety in speech
- articulators
- the parts of the body that create consonant sounds
- articulation
- the clear and precise pronunciation of words
- when did larson die
- the night before rents first preview, january 25, 1996
- scenery
- onstage decoration to help establish the time and place of a play
- arena stage
- a performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
- proscenium stage
- a performance space in which the audience views the action as if through a picture frame
- downstage
- the stage area toward the audience
- production concept
- how the play should look and feel