Basic Theatre Terms

3. Speaking loud enough for your audience to hear.
5. Speaking so your audience can understand you.
6. Where and how a director tells you to do something on stage.
8. How and where an actor moves.
10. How a story or play is organized.
11. What the furniture and backdrops on the stage look like and how they are designed.
13. What an actor wears on stage to portray a certain character.
14. When actors act out and practice the script to get it ready for performance.
16. Being able to say your lines without looking at your script or having another person tell you what it is.
17. Opening your body up to the audience.
18. Objects that an actor handles or uses in a play.
19. The unique things an actor does and says to portray an authentic character.
22. The place where the actors perform.

1. A group of actors that put on plays.
2. Reading through the script with the rest of the cast for the first time.
3. When you produce a play, you call it this.
4. The people who watch the play.
6. The final rehearsal before the performance.
7. The line rehearsal where you focus on memorization.
9. When an actor is supposed to say or do something in the script.
11. The written text of a play.
12. The people, animals, or entities in a particular play, or WHO the actors portray in a play.
15. The place where the audience sits.
20. WHEN and WHERE the story or play takes place.
21. directions The italicized words in a script that tell the actors what to do in the play.