Theatre Arts Terminology

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Across
  1. 2. The major interpretive figure, the artistic visionary whose job it is to bring to life the playwright’s script.
  2. 4. Movement of the actors onstage
  3. 5. Representation of a character’s qualities or peculiarities through dialogue, gesture, movement, costume and makeup
  4. 8. Competitive tryout for a performer seeking a role in a theatre production.
  5. 9. Conversation actors have on stage
  6. 10. Area in front of the main curtain/proscenium.
  7. 12. Small area of the stage that has its own set of lights.
  8. 13. Designed to show the costumes to the director
  9. 17. Inclusion of a comic line or scene in an otherwise serious play to provide relief from tension
  10. 18. Character opposing the main character in a play.
Down
  1. 1. Originated in the later 1600s which makes fun of upper-class pretentiousness and the attitudes of the wealthy
  2. 3. Turn made away and with the actor’s back to the audience, usually considered a poor movement.
  3. 5. Improvised comedy featuring stock characters that began in Renaissance Italy
  4. 6. Group of actors and technicians working on a show
  5. 7. A passageway that leads from one side of the stage to the other, out of view of the audience
  6. 11. Matching the actors who auditioned for the production with the roles
  7. 14. Move that does not attract attention to itself while managing to keep the actor in view of the audience.
  8. 15. Movement of an actor from one position on the stage to another
  9. 16. Good luck to an actor
  10. 17. Play with a mixture of humor and pathos, that celebrates the eternal ironies and struggles of human existence, and ends happily