Drama Vocab Review

an actor's technique of recreating an emotion on stage by recalling an equivalent experience

• affective memory

• direct address

• interlude

• intention

speech directed to the audience

• direct address

• epigram

• intention

• libretto

a short, polished, witty, often satirical comment

• libretto

• direct address

• epigram

• heroic couplet

a pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter

• affective memory

• heroic couplet

• libretto

• off/on book

the objective of an actor in a scene

• interlude

• libretto

• direct address

• intention

a play performed from the gallery of a manor during a banquet in Elizabethan times; a short play given between the acts of a long play in Renaissance times

• epigram

• heroic couplet

• interlude

• intention

the dialog between the songs in a musical show

• epigram

• direct address

• libretto

• affective memory

the act of being totally memorized or still using the script

• off/on book

• affective memory

• direct address

• intention

a lighting cue that requires total darkness onstage, normally used to provide a startling effect

• blackout

• knife

• jumper

• cellar

the space immediately under the stage that contains scenery-changing machinery and the trap chamber for the trapdoor

• grand drape

• jog

• cellar

• mekane