english vocubularies

• Act


  The external division of the play into more or less equal parts on the basis of time and development of the action
• Scene


  A smaller division showing a single setting and a time frame, sometimes marked by the entrance and exit of a character
• Full-length play


  Has several acts that constitute the whole story
• Stage direction


  • Gives vital information for the action and relationships between people, things, and places inside the play script
• Cues


  A signal prompting on an event in performance, e.g. an actor's speech or entrance lightning or sound effect
• Prompts


  A person (offstage) who prompts an actor if they forget their lines
• Lighting and sound effect


  • It is highlighting and can be used to separate a character from the back drop and characters around them
• Setting


  The time and place in which the story takes place. The period of a story can impact characters, plot, and theme
• Backdrop


  Scenery hung at the back of the stage
• Flats


  • Flat pieces of scenery which can be printed to give the appearance of a building or setting
• Iron


  A safety curtain separating the stage from the audience in Proscenium Arch theater

  
• Props


  Items carried on stage by an actor, small items on the set used by the actors
• Dialogue


  A conversation between two or more people, or speech that is written down as part of a piece of narrative text
• Aside


  Speech delivered to the audience supposedly not heard by the characters on stage
• Monologue


  A long speech to the audience or another character on stage
• Duologue


  A scene between two characters
• Soliloquy


  Characters share their thoughts with the audience
• Stage left


  The left side of the stage as seen by the actors looking out at the audience
• Callback


  The second round of auditions
• Blocking


  Direction given to actors as to where they should stand or move during the course of the play
• Dry tech


  The first technical rehearsal, without actors (therefore, without costumes and props) so that lights, sound, and running crew can rehearse their parts
• Places


  When actors and technical crews have been told that the production will start within five minutes and they are to be in place and ready
• Upstage


  The part of the stage that is farthest from the audience
• Stage right


  The right side of the stage as seen by the actors looking out at the audience
• Downstage


  The part of the stage that is closest to the audience
• Curtain call


  When the actors come out at the end of the show to take their bows
• Call time


  The time that all actors and crew are expected to be at the theater