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Way of speaking used in a local area or country

Accent

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Type of clay used for altering the shape of the nose or chin and/or

making warts and wounds

• NOSE PUTTY

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Used to attach a lantern to the lighting bar for safety

• SAFETY CHAIN

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Control board for lighting

• LIGHTING DESK

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add soft furnishings such as table cloth, cushions, pictures

and pre-set props

• Dress the set/set dressing

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Liquid rubber which can be used to make skull cap moulds and

false noses

• LATEX

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Lightweight frames and boards for creating levels

• Portable staging

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A loud whisper intended to be heard by the audience

• STAGE WHISPER

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Clear pronunciation of words

articulation

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Outline of the plot of a drama including changes in time and

place

• SCENARIO

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Beam of light created by a lantern for a person or place on

the acting area

SPOTLIGHT

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Downstage Centre

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Plastic head-shaped covering to give appearance of baldness

• SKULL CAP

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A drama presented through dance moves

• Dance Drama

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The process of fully developing a character

• Characterisation

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Focussing

• Positioning the lanterns to get the desired lighting

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Explanation of symbols on a ground plan

• KEY

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Clearness of the Voice

• Clarity

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Worn by actors for their character

• MAKE UP

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Glue used to attach hair to the face

• SPIRIT GUM

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A form of drama in which a fairy tale is told. Usually performed at

Christmas time

• PANTOMIME

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The collective name for lighting, sound, costume, props, makeup

and set

• THEATRE ARTS

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• UP STAGE LEFT

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The position of the acting area relative to the audience

• STAGING

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A drama about unhappy events and with a sad ending

• TRAGEDY

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Section of a drama set in one place at one time.

• Scene

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• UP STAGE RIGHT

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The whole acting area is evenly lit

• WASH (general wash)

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Place where a drama is presented

• VENUE

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Enter

• To come on stage

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Fresnel Spot

• Lantern giving a soft edged beam of light

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Flash Forward

• (convention) acting out of a future or imagined event

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a conversation between two or more characters

• Dialogue

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• Downstage Left (DSL)

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Master copy of the script with all moves and technical effects

included

• PROMPT COPY

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Stage curtains

• TABS

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Blocks or platforms used to create levels

• ROSTRA

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A signal for an actor to do or say something, or for a lighting or sound effect to begin or end

• cue

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Recorded speech played during a drama

• VOICE OVER

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Build up of tension or excitement

• TENSION

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Evaluate

• To judge the strengths and weaknesses of a drama

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Change of voice to express emotion

• TONE

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Written or spoken advice on how to act in a drama

• STAGE DIRECTIONS

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• UP STAGE CENTRE

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A specific group of people at whom a a drama is aimed

• TARGET AUDIENCE

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Film placed in front of a lantern to change the colour of the beam.

• Gel

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A character speaks their thoughts aloud (with another

person on stage)

• MONOLOUGE

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Sticks of make-up in different colours used to create lines,

bruises, shading, highlighting

• LINERS

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Using light colours to make face areas stand out

• SHADING

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a break in speech, or a period of silence

• PAUSE

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Flats

• Wooden frames, joined together and covered with canvas which can be painted

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Soft pencils in different colours which are easily smudged and

blended

• PENCILS

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Movement performed at a slowed down speed

• SLOW MOTION

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A list of costumes for each character in a drama

• Costume list

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Follow Spot

• Powerful profile used to follow actors around the acting area

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Dramatic Irony

• Actions or remarks whose significance is not realised by all the characters. (you know something the characters don’t)

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Left hand side of the stage where prompter and stage manager sit

during performance

• PROMPT SIDE

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A documentary style drama, including reconstruction of events

• Docu-drama

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Powder, liquid or capsules which create the effect of bleeding

• FAKE BLOOD

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The way to write down lighting effects

• LFX

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Table in the wings on which all props are placed for actors to

collect as they enter and replace as they exit

• Props table

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Costume which reflects clothing from a time in history

• PERIOD COSTUME

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Canvas cloth which covers the back of the stage & can be painted

Back cloth

O----------O

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Scene by scene breakdown which sequences time, place and

action.

• STUCTURE

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Audience seated all around the acting area

THEATRE IN THE ROUND

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Fluency

• Natural flowing speech

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Rising and falling of voice

• INTONATION

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Non acting area behind the stage

• Backstage

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Window Flat

• Frames into which a window is built

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Part of the stage in front of the curtain

• APRON

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Dress Rehearsal

• Final rehearsal of a drama with all the theatre arts added

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A means of exploring attitudes and beliefs

• ROLE PLAY

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Stage within an enclosing arch

• PROSCENIUM ARCH STAGE

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A drama which is funny/comical

• comedy

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To remove all the set from the acting area

• STRIKE

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Form

• The overall Style of a drama

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Use of the body as a means of communication

• MOVEMENT

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Recall of words said by others about a character or situation

• VOICES IN THE HEAD

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Exit

• To leave the acting area

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Natural, flowing speech

• FLUENCY

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Presentation of a drama to an audience

• PERFORMANCE

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Speed of movement or speech

• PACE

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Basic skin colour

• FOUNDATION

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An item carried or worn by a character e.g. glasses/handbag

• PERSONAL PROP

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Alternative ways of presenting a drama

• Conventions

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Anything which suggests ideas which can be developed into a

drama

• STIMULUS

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The acting area is not lit

• Blackout

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Sides of a theatre stage

• WINGS

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A stage picture held without movement

• TABLEAU

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Front of House

• Any job in the theatre that involves the audience (box office, bar, ushers etc)

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Scars created with make-up , putty or scarring material

• SCARRING

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To supply forgotten lines to an actor

• PROMPT

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What the audience sees of the stage from where they are sitting

• SIGHT LINES

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The lighting/sound is faded out slowly

• Slow fade to

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A drama created on the spot without a script or a plan

• SPONTANEOUS IMPROVISATION

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Used to create an unshaven look or the appearance of cracked

veins

STIPPLE SPONGE

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one actor unintentionally preventing another from being

seen by the audience

• Masking

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Forum Theatre

• The audience suggest changes to a drama in order to affect the outcomes

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Movement of the hand or arm which communicates a meaning

or emotion

• gesture

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Clothes worn by actors for their characters

• Costume

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Key moment, scene, character, relationship or event in a drama

• FOCUS

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Short for properties- objects used by an actor

• PROPS

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Scenery used to show where and when a drama takes place

• SET

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A single lengthy speech, made when no other characters are on

stage

• SOLILOQUY

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Facial expression

• Look on the face which shows emotion

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How high or low the voice is

• PITCH

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The back wall of the stage which can be painted or lit

• cyclorama

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The lighting/sound is faded out quickly

• Fast fade to

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the written words of a drama

• SCRIPT

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Door in the floor through which actors can ascend or descend

• TRAP DOOR

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Stylised form of movement creating the illusion of reality

• MIME

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Focus

• Key moment, scene, character, relationship or event in a drama

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Loudness or quietness of the voice

• VOLUME

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A form of drama which includes songs and/or music

• MUSICAL

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Area above the stage from where scenery/actors are

flown in on pulleys

• flies

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Used to create the look of a missing tooth by blacking out an

existing one

• TOOTH VARNISH

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Resources used to create the setting where a drama takes

place,

• SCENERY

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Piece of scenery on wheels for ease of movement

• TRUCK

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Position of the body –how it is held

• POSTURE

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See through material which cannot be seen through when lit from the front, but can be seen through when lit from behind

• GAUZE

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Stage Fireworks

• PYROTECHNICS

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Parts of the drama are told as a story

• NARRATOR/NARRATION

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Lantern giving a wide spread of light

• FLOOD

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Plaits of artificial hair which can be cut and trimmed to form eyebrows, moustaches and

beards

• CREPE HAIR

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Freeze Frame

• (convention) the action is frozen in time

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Clamp used to secure lantern to lighting bar or stand

• G- clamp

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Emphasis

• Stressing a word or a phrase

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• Centre Stage Right (CSR)

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Master copy of the script with all moves and technical effects

included

• PROMPT COPY

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Adjustable metal flaps attached to the front of a fresnel spotlight for

shaping the beam of light

• Barndoors

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Person who has written the play

• PLAY WRIGHT

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Door flat

• Frames into which a door is built

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The process of developing a drama’s content and roles through

practical exploration, experimentation and problem

solving. (in the drama process)

• Creating

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Frozen Picture

• A tableau but the foundation word

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Flood

• Lantern giving a wide spread of light

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Appropriate speech for the person being spoken to, or for

the situation

• REGISTER

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Any job in the theatre which involves dealing with the

audience (e.g. the box office, bar, usher)

• FRONT OF HOUSE

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An aid to characterisation where the character speaks their

thoughts out loud

• THOUGHT TRACKING

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Movements which follow a pattern or a beat

• RHYTHM

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Flies

• Area above the stage from where scenery/actors are flown in on pulleys

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Part played by an actor/ attitude adopted

• ROLE

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An item placed on the set, usually part of it e.g. a lamp,

clock, picture

SET PROP

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• Centre Stage (CS)

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The result of creating process, including performance and

evaluation

• PRESENTING

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Drama devised/ created without a script which is rehearsed

before presentation

• REHEARSED IMPROVISATION

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A loud whisper intended to be heard by the audience

• STAGE WHISPER

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An exaggerated portrayal of a type of person

• STEREOTYPE

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End on Stage

• Audience seated at one end-acting area at the other

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Thin metal plate cut out in a pattern and placed in a lantern to project pattern or shape into the

acting area

• gobo

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Deciding where and when actors will move on stage

• Blocking

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Used to create a mood or atmosphere on stage using specific devices. E.g. strobe

light, mirror ball, smoke machine

• SPECIAL EFFECTS

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Covering for all, or part, of the face

• MASK

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Audience follows the action on foot moving from one location to

another

• PROMENADE

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Blackout is achieved instantly

• Snap to

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Specific person in a drama

• Character

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Questioning a character in the role

• HOT SEATING

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Lantern giving a hard edged beam of light

• PROFILE SPOT

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Control desk for sound effect being used in a drama

• MIXING DESK

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Stage which turns in a circle

• Revolving stage

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Attitude or position of the body

• STANCE

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Area of the seating above the stalls and below the balcony

• DRESS CIRCLE

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Speaking or moving at exactly the right time

• TIMING

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• Centre Stage Left (CSL)

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Stairs

• TREADS

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character (s) walk past other characters who comment on the

situation

• THOUGHT TUNNEL

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Keeping and even distribution of weight

• Balance

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Practise or preparation of a drama

• REHEARSAL

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Messages given by the position or movement of the body

• Body Language

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Areas of seating above the stage

• BALCONY

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Area in which actors wait when not on stage during a

performance

• GREEN ROOM

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Slope of stage (to allow actors to be seen)

• RAKE

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Bird’s eye view of the set showing what is on the set,

entrances/exits and the position of the audience

• GROUND PLAN

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Story line of a drama

• PLOT

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To change from one lighting cue to another with no blackout in

between or to change from one sound cue to another with no

silence in between

• Crossfade

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Flashback

• (convention) Acting out of an event in the past

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Audience seated on three sides of the acting area

• Thrust staging

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The position of the acting area relative to the audience

• STAGING

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Importance relative to others

• STATUS

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A remark to the audience only

aside

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People watching the Drama

audience

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Drapes which curtain off the sides, or back of the stage

• BLACKS

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Lowest area of seating, not above stage height

• STALLS

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The area for the audience, generally filled with seats

Auditorium