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Theatre 1 Test 1 Review

Basic Stage Terms
Horizontales
Part of stage extending past proscenium arch towards audience.
7th strongest stage area.
8th strongest stage area.
Most Common Stage. We have this stage at Denison.
4th strongest stage area.
Away from the audience (Full Back).
9 divisions of stage floor, Used by directors when moving actors or placing furniture/scenery.
The strongest stage area.
the actual head height of the actor as determined by his/her body position (sitting/lying/standing/elevated). Meaning is created by placing actors at different levels.
5th strongest stage area.
in American usage, the finished upstage face of the proscenium wall, fire curtain, or pilasters from which equipment and scenery are dimensioned. See also setting line.
Offstage spaces to side of acting area.
an appealing and meaningful arrangement of performers on the stage; picture the audience sees onstage.
We use clock and compass directions to navigate on this stage.
One actor emphasizes other.
The way you behave in a certain situation.
Curtains used to mask/hide all of the backstage workings of a play that the audience does not need to see during a production.
This stage is similar to a model runway
Imaginary divisions giving depth to the proscenium stage. An actor must move through the stage planes as he/she moves DS to audience or US away from audience.
Any stage not classified as proscenium, arena, or thrust.
Is the holding room for actors to wait and relax before and during a production.
Verticales
Towards the audience (Full Front).
lowest level of audience seating.
3rd strongest stage area.
Where additional lighting is hung.
Weakest stage area.
an appealing and meaningful arrangement of performers on the stage; picture the audience sees onstage.
Actor’s position of body in relation to audience, described by 5 different angles.
2nd strongest stage area.
6th strongest stage area.
Picture frame of the stage.
the precise movement and positioning of actor on a stage (coordination of actor’s movement).
a floor of structural steel channel or grating which extends over the upper portion of the stage house. Provides mounting positions for theatre equipment and staff access to any point over the stage for rigging and maintenance.
the upper part of the stage house where scenery, drapery, and equipment can be suspended out of the view of the audience.
Where the set is built.
draperies (curtain) covering the proscenium opening, separating audience and stage.
One actor upstages the other, forcing downstage actor to turn back to audience.
Section of the theatre where the audience sits.
Where the stage manager typically calls the show. Also Where the light board and sound board operators sit.
Open to equal degree
When one actor stand directly in front of another actor (it is DS actors responsibility to adjust)