Vocabulary Game Part 1

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Across
  1. 1. a contrivance located in the flies for suspending scenery
  2. 6. why the character acts
  3. 7. interiorly the imaginary side of the room toward the audience
  4. 8. the rate an actor speaks or performs their actions
  5. 9. the wall dividing the stage from the auditorium
  6. 11. a derogatory term for exaggerated facial expressions
  7. 13. to play more than one role in a single play
  8. 16. the arrangement of everything also a diagram showing the arrangements
  9. 17. an uninterrupted rehearsal
  10. 18. the arched opening in the proscenium wall
  11. 21. line, the imaginary line across the stage floor that the front curtain touches when closed
  12. 22. a theatrical presentation in which the stress is on the performance of the group
  13. 23. a small nonspeaking part
Down
  1. 2. spontaneous invention of lines and business by performers
  2. 3. the canvas covered frames that constitute the walls of a stage setting
  3. 4. the lines spoken by the characters in a play
  4. 5. a curtain closing the proscenium opening
  5. 10. performing an action without an intention
  6. 12. a room close to the stage which the actors may await entrance cues
  7. 14. to leave the stage an opening in the setting through which actors may leave
  8. 15. any unchangeable fact that affects the playing of the scene
  9. 19. the actor's real reason for performing an action
  10. 20. a direction given by the stage manager for the beginning of an act