Performance and Staging Terms

The clarity of your words and voice is called

• Intonation

• Projection

• Articulation

• Pitch

The precise movements and placement of actors on stage is called

• Movement

• Body language

• Positioning

• Blocking

Minor actions performed by the actor that helps to portray their character is called

• Stage business

• Stage movement

• Blocking

• Stage direcion

Lines spoken by an actor to the audience that are not supposed to be overheard by

other characters on stage.

• Soliloquy

• Aside

• Flashback

• Narration

The particular level of your voice that shows emotion during performance is

• Tone

• Volume

• Pitch

• Articulation

Highlighting the difference between characters and scenes in a performance is called

• Tension

• Contrast

• Level

• Proxemic

The distance between characters on stage based on the relationship between them is called

• Distance

• Proxemics

• Space management

• Levels

The technique of creating two or more different scenes simultaneously on the stage is

• Split-staging

• Multiple staging

• Contrast

• Style

The process of moving from one scene to another is called

• Exits and Entrance

• Set change

• Transitions

• Blackout

This type of stage is called

• Thrust stage

• Proscenium stage

• Arena stage

• Theatre in the round