A male person who performs a role in a play or film.

A female person who performs a role in a play or film.

People assembled to watch or play or listen to a speech

A person who opposes another character’s goals or desires

The center of an area used as a stage

The personality or role that an actor/actress recreates.

Clothes worn by an actor on stage during a performance.

The point of greatest dramatic tension in a play or film.

............ means to learn the role of another actor so that if necessary one may take their place

The high point of a play

A style of performance without words in which actors act out situations or portray characters using only actions gestures and facial expressions.

Cosmetics and hairstyles that an actor/actress wears on stage to depict facial features, historical period or characterization.

Practice session in which actors/actresses prepare for public performance through repetition.

A serious play with a tragic theme, involving a heroic struggle and the downfall of  the main character.

The written text of a play.

Conversation between actors/actresses on stage

The area where actors perform.

The person who supervises the entire process of staging a play or film.

The final rehearsals before the opening night in which a play is performed.

The part of the stage area towards the audience.

The main character In a play

A stage setting that is stylized rather than photorealistic or representational; that is, one that does not attempt to present a realistic stage picture.

Lighting that stresses certain stage areas. It may be done with intensity and/or color.

............ refers to anything pertaining to sound

That area within the performance space within which the actor may move in full view of the audience. Also, a specific portion of such an area actually used for acting during all or part of a performance.

A person with a wide range of theatrical training and experience, who views productions entered in a festival (such as AACTFest) and who shares his or her reactions with the participants and audience.

A person who acts without pay; sometimes used in ridicule to mean "not of high caliber is referred to as ............

Permission from the playwright (via the representative or publisher) to produce the play by a theater company whose participants (particularly actors) work without salary is called ........

An auditorium, outdoors or indoors, circular, semicircular, or elliptical in shape, in which a central arena is more or less surrounded by rising banks of seats. is called .......

A person who serves without pay in an acting company in order to learn about acting or other aspects of theatrical work.

A point in a dramatic piece, after the climax, which may emphasize the meaning of the climax by some lesser tension, or may merely lessen the effect of the climax, sometimes to absurdity

Form of stage where the audience is seated on at least two (normally three, or all four) sides of the whole acting area.

............ is a curtain or tapestry used to screen a door, or serving as a wall hanging.

The mood, the general emotional quality, of all or part of a dramatic piece or of its representation is called........

The part of the theatre accommodating the audience during the performance. Sometimes known as the "house' is called

Any fresh leadership in theatrical production, but more especially a realistic movement toward greater freedom in expression is called .........

A small spotlight used at a short distance to give sharp illumination to an actor's face, or to a limited portion of the acting area.

........... is a large curtain, usually painted to represent the sky, a landscape, or some other background, dropped upstage to form the back of a wing set and to mask the backstage space

The illumination of a scene from behind the actors, usually from the back of the stage.

The setting or scenic display before which actors perform is called ........

A song, usually, simple, sentimental, short and narrative, used in musical comedy

A plain cloth or plastered wall filling the rear of the stage. The term is often loosely applied to a blue skydrop, or any flattage at the rear of the stage is called .......

The manner in which an actor presents or utters his/her lines.

Noisy and unpleasant sound reproduction, usually the result of overloading sound equipment

To reveal a scene, a person, etc., to the audience, often by the opening of a curtain or bringing up stage lighting.

A light from directly above the acting area

A door or other opening through which an actor can leave the stage.

An explanation, normally in the dialogue, of events preceding the beginning of a dramatic piece, and which the audience needs to know

A sharp whistle or rumble heard emanating from a sound system, caused by a sound being amplified many times.

Someone who overacts or acts badly on stage

To change the appearance of one's face and other exposed surfaces of the body for acting through cosmetics, false hair, etc

The unprinted text of a dramatic composition, often in the author's handwriting

The stage director's arrangement of all the elements that comprise the stage picture, including scenery, actors, lighting, costumes

.......... is an onstage speaker which allows a performer to hear the output of the PA system, or other members of a band

A device with a number of input channels where each sound source is provided with its own control channel through which sound signals are routed into two or more outputs

A dramatic work that has been awarded to a specific publishing house and is in the typesetting, proof, or printing process, but is not yet listed for licensing.

Master copy of the script or score, containing all the actor moves and technical cues, used by stage management to control the performance

A form of organization, usually with a permanent company of actors, where each production has a run of limited length

........ are the authors/creatives' way of being paid for the use of their shows, scripts and other forms of their intellectual property