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Theatre Terms
Terms for Theatre Arts 9th Grade
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ad-lib | To Improvise part or all of a scene or play |
| Apron | The area of the stage extending beyond the proscenium wall. |
| Blocking | The process of determining the placement or location of actors on stage and planning their relative movement in a scene. |
| Cross | to move from one place to another on stage |
| Dialogue | Passages of speech between characters in a play |
| Empathy | Identification with and understanding of a characters situation, feelings, and motives. |
| Improvisation/Improv | A situation in which the actors are provided with background on the setting and characters and then spontaneously invent dialogue and action. |
| Prompt | To give actors their line. As actors move off book, the prompter follows the dialogue in a prompt book and, if an actor calls for his or her "line", the prompter provides a portion of the line to help the actor remember. |
| Set | The surroundings on stage, visible to the audience, in which the action of a play develops |
| Spike | The process of placing marks with either paint or tape to designated where pieces of scenery are to be placed |
| Monologue | Long speech by a single actor similar to soliloquy. The speech is generally made by the actor as if speaking to himself and is revealing of his or her thoughts or feelings. |
| Pantomime | From the Latin pantomimus, or "player of many parts". Through misunderstanding it came to mean description of a story by means of expression and movement only. |
| Act | A unit or division of a play, each of which is composed of one or more scenes |
| Allusion | a reference to another work of art, either directly or by implication |
| Aside | -breaking the proscenium/fourth wall -refers to a speech or comment made by an actor directly to the audience about the action of the play or another character. -this comment is not heard or noticed by the other characters in the play |
| Climax | In the traditional dramatic sense, the TURNING POINT, or the even in which leads to the "downfall" or falling action |
| Cue | the words or actions at which an actor is expected to deliver a line or a crew member is expected to perform some task |
| Dramatic monologue | a long, solo performance in which a speaker reveals his or her character, often in relation to a critical situation or event, in a speech addressed to the reader or to a presumed listener |
| Fourth Wall | -imaginary wall that separates the actors on stage from the audience in the house -term now also applies to film/TV -"breaking the fourth wall" means an actor speaking directly to an audience |
| Mime | -originally, actors in ancient Rome who performed in a popular, SPOKEN form or farcical drama -emphasis on character development rather than plot -among those who kept theatrical traditions alive during the Middle Ages |
| Narrator | A specific character who is telling the accounts of the play |
| Plot | The plan or arrangement of incidents in a play/ the story of a play |
| Prop | All physical items on stage with the exception of the scenery. Props usually refer to things that can be carried or are specifically refereed to. Heavier items are considered scenery |
| Soliloquy | A passage of narrative spoken by a single actor in which his or her thoughts are revealed to the audience |
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