Stage Parts/Movement Test

What is a proscenium stage?

• a performance space in which the audience views the action as if through a picture frame

• a stage with three sides

• an arena stage

• a stage with no exit

Where is downstage?

• Towards the audience

• Away from the audience

• stage right

• stage left

Stage right and stage left are always from the ______ point of view?

Who is the focus of this scene and why? What elements led you to decide that this person was the focus of the scene?

What are the wings

• Delicious chicken dipped in buffalo ranch

• The sides of the stage where actors wait to appear

• The pit

• The house

The audience space is also called the _____ in theatre?

This is the strongest point on stage

• stage right

• stage left

• centerstage

• upstage

What is blocking?

• How actors warm up

• How actors learn their lines

• Building blocks

• How actors move on stage

What does it mean to cheat in terms of blocking?

• To upstage your fellow actor

• When an actor plays toward the audience while conversing with another character. Also called cheating out.

• To cheat on a test?

• To take up as much space as possible

Where is the woman positioned on stage? (remember right and left are from the actor's point of view).

• Downstage right

• upstage left

• centerstage

• downstage left