Drama Vocabulary Unit 1

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Across
  1. 3. A form of drama in which the main characters suffer disaster.
  2. 5. Comedy with exaggerated characterizations, abundant physical or visual humor, and often an improbable plot.
  3. 6. The orientation of the actor to the audience (e.g. full front, right profile, left profile)
  4. 7. Final line in a script that signals an actor to begin the next speech
  5. 8. Having a clear perception of your personality, strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivations, and emotions; allowing you to understand other people, how they perceive you, your attitude and your responses to them in the moment.
  6. 12. A style of writing in which the author tries to represent life situations as they really are.
  7. 15. Rehearsing without a script after lines are memorized
  8. 18. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
  9. 21. Language or meaning expressed in words; one of the six elements of tragedy set forth by Aristotle.
  10. 22. The act of seeing and describing a situation, event, or emotion.
  11. 23. On a purchased script, use highlighters to highlight your character’s speaking parts and another (of a different color) to indicate cue lines.
  12. 24. An imaginary wall between the audience and the actors in a proscenium theatre
Down
  1. 1. To mark the floor of a rehearsal space with tape that indicates significant parts of a ground plan
  2. 2. Movements, gestures, or words that act as bridges between beats in a monologue.
  3. 4. The clear and precise pronunciation of words
  4. 9. the technique of calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character.
  5. 10. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds
  6. 11. Memory of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures. An actor uses sense memory to mentally transport him/herself to the character’s situation.
  7. 13. Variety in speech reflecting changing thoughts and emotions
  8. 14. A literary and dramatic movement that emphasized bravery and emotion, featuring extraordinary characters and melodramatic plots.
  9. 16. A complete reading of a play aloud by the assembled cast, usually at the first rehearsal.
  10. 17. information that is implied but not stated by a character; thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same meaning as the character’s spoken words.
  11. 19. Smaller sections of a scene, divided where shifts in emotion or topic occur
  12. 20. The planning and working out of the movements of actors on stage.