Theater Terms

Acts

• The Chapters in a Drama/Play
• Show the changes in settings overtime
• story told in front of a live audience
• tools that are used to bring a scene

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

Dialogue

• the chapters in a drama/play
• characters in a drama/play
• what the actors say in a drama/play
• tools used to bring a scence

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

Scenes

• the chapters in a drama
• characters in a drama
• the place where actors perform
• show the changes in settings overtime

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

Monologue is a speech of some duration addressed by a character to a second person to express his/her thoughts and ideas aloud.

• True
• False

Cast

• 
  The actors who perform in a given play
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  All the actions, excluding  blocking, performed by actors onstage (i.e. gesturing, opening windows, writing letters.)
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  The person who puts together a theatrical production & who obtains the financial backing; leading the rights to the play; rents the theater, hires the director, designer, house & stage crew, supervises, does the advertising & budget, & sometimes hires the cast

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

Stage directions

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  A dramatic device in which a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud, in words meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters
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  Determining the basic movements of the actors during a play; sometimes provided by the playwright,sometimes developed by actors, but usually supplied by the director
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  Notes added to the script of play, generally in italics or parentheses that provide the line readings, blocking, business, etc.
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  The surrounding in which the action of the play develops

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.5

Blocking

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  The part of the theater building that holds the audience; also called the house
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  Determining the basic movements of the actors during a play; sometimes provided by the playwright,sometimes developed by actors, but usually supplied by the director
• Notes added to the script of play, generally in italics or parentheses that provide the line readings, blocking, business, etc.
• 
  The surrounding in which the action of the play develops

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

Soliloquy

• on stage speaks his or her own thoughts aloud
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  A work written to be spoken by just one person.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

Director

•  The person responsible for the directions of the actors in a play; provides the play’s vision.
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  One who writes plays; a dramatist
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  The person who puts together a theatrical production & who obtains the financial backing; leading the rights to the play; rents the theater, hires the director, designer, house & stage crew, supervises, does the advertising & budget, & sometimes hires the cast

Set

• The area immediately offstage left and right where actors stand to await their cues.
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  The surrounding in which the action of the play develops
• 
  The part of the theater building that holds the audience; also called the house