theater vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Try out for a role in a play.
  2. 6. Almost anything brought to life by human hands to create a performance.types of puppets include rod, hand, and marionette.
  3. 8. Clothing worn by an actor on stage during a performance.
  4. 10. action The part of a plot consisting of complications and discoveries that create
  5. 11. A decisive point in the plot of a play on which the outcome of the remaining
  6. 12. Character A person who undergoes an important change or development during a
  7. 14. A recurrent character, incident, or concept.
  8. 16. Irony Actions or remarks who significance is not realized by all characters.
  9. 17. Concluding part of any performance.
  10. 19. The written text of a play
  11. 23. A secondary who situation parallels the main character’s.
  12. 24. Overall feeling of a play
  13. 25. The highness or lowness of voice
  14. 27. (properties) Items carried on stage by an actor; small items on the set used by characters
  15. 29. Printed words, including dialogue and the stage directions for a script.
  16. 30. A group of theatrical artists working together to create a theatrical
  17. 33. a Leg” Wish for good luck in a performance.
  18. 35. Character A character who undergoes little to no inner change.
  19. 36. Detailed information revealing the facts of a plot.
  20. 37. An expressive movement of the body or limbs.
  21. 41. The planning and working out of the movements of actors on stage.
  22. 42. Short break between the acts of a play or parts of a performance.
  23. 43. A personality or role an actor/actress re-creates.
  24. 47. Cast member who serves as background for action.
  25. 51. A character’s reason for doing or saying things in a play.
  26. 52. A theatrical work that is intentionally humorous.
  27. 53. A long speech by a single character.
  28. 54. most strongly.
Down
  1. 1. The arrogant pride in a character that will ultimately lead to his/he
  2. 3. theatre A type of entertainment containing music, songs, and, usually, dance.
  3. 4. The area where actors perform.
  4. 5. Actors in a play
  5. 7. A rehearsal moving from start to finish without stopping for corrections or
  6. 9. structure The particular literary structure and style in which plays are written.
  7. 12. The person who oversees the entire process of staging a production.
  8. 13. Opposition of persons or forces giving rise to dramatic action.
  9. 15. The main character of a play and the character with whom the audience
  10. 18. Acting out an event from the past.
  11. 20. The art and technique of bringing the elements of theatre together to make play
  12. 21. A character’s goal or intention.
  13. 22. The point of greatest dramatic tension or transition in a theatrical work
  14. 26. reading A reading of a script done by actors who have not previously reviewed the
  15. 28. The conversation between actors on stage.
  16. 31. Part(s) of a play that are told by a narrator.
  17. 32. Wall The invisible division between the characters and the audience.
  18. 34. Acting without words through facial expression, gesture, and movement.
  19. 36. Repeated or additional performance at the end of a play.
  20. 38. An introductory speech that introduces the background information or
  21. 39. The tempo of an entire theatrical performance.
  22. 40. Acting out a future or imagined event.
  23. 43. Interrelated conditions in which a play exists or occurs.
  24. 44. Planned movement/ dance in a play or musical.
  25. 45. The placement and delivery of volume, clarity, and distinctness of voice for
  26. 46. Selecting the actor who will paly each role in a show.
  27. 48. to an audience.
  28. 49. depends.
  29. 50. The final resolution of the conflict in a plot.