Theatre Terms

apron

In traditional theater, part of the scene, which stands in front of the curtain. In many theaters it can be extended, sometimes on the construction of the pit.

Assistant director

Assists the Director by taking notes on all strokes and other decisions and keep them together in a single instance of the script. In some companies, this is Stage Manager.

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Another name for the stage crew

Assembly Hall

Part of the theater in which the audience sits. Also known as home.

Back Flat

The flat, which stands outside the window or door in the set

have

Aluminum pipe suspended above the stage, on which hung lights. In addition, the place where you will find the actors after the show

batten

Metal pipe to snap, which goes from one side to another theater, that we hang things from a soft, solid, or special

Blacout

Lighting term, switching on all the lights at once, leaving the scene in total darkness

Black light

Ultraviolet radiation. It may be a bulb or more generally tubular shape. 

Blacks

Black curtains on the back and on the sides of the stage.

blocking

Installation positions of actors and moves at the beginning of rehearsals. From time to time known as the drawing, but the term is usually reserved for use in lighting.

Book

A copy of the script is stored in the director, which includes all signals and notes. Also known, as a rule, in amateur theater as "urgent copy"

Box Office

The place where tickets are sold 

Call

As a rule, a kind of guide to the company, a rehearsal call is an instruction to participate in rehearsal in the performance 

Cast

List of characters in the play and the actors who play them. In addition, as a verb to allocate part of the members of society.

Cheat

In order to act on the scene look realistic, not to actually do what you seem to do.

Choreographer 

Machinery and rehearsing dances, following the concept outlined director.

To go down

In the theater, the show does not end, it comes down 

Cue

Instructions given to the manager of the scene to one of the technical departments to take some measures.

Final Bow

Taking a bow to the audience at the end of the show.

DSL

Down stage left

DSR

Down stage right

Designer

Projects of all aspects of production: set, costumes, wigs, makeup, etc.Not however, responsible for the design of lighting

Director

The control of all aspects of the production. It develops the concept of production, sums up the designer and lighting designer, the actors moving areas.

doubling

One actor takes more than one part of the game

friendly

to the audience

dresser

Those whose job it is to help the actor in a quick costume change.

dry

actor who forgets his words, as they say, a "dry". It can also be used as a noun

Apartment

Elongated frame made of wood, covered with a canvas and the canvas or painted, which is part of the set. There is also an apartment doors, windows, even the apartment fire deflates.

fly

The scenario that the roof is raised or lowered on the stage. A device for this consists of a series of ropes and pulleys 

FOH

Before the house: nothing is happening on the side of the curtain the audience, as they say, to make it happen "in front of the house"

up

In theater lingo, the show does not start, "it goes up" 

The Green room

The room behind the scenes, often licensed, in which the company can sit and relax before.

half

Half an hour before the first actors are due on stage. All participants must be in their dressing rooms at half.

building manager

Responsible for everything that happens in front of the house

Home tabs

The curtains around the front of the stage

Ingenue

The old-fashioned term for the female lead jvenile.

tool

American term for a lamp that in everyday terms we mean by the word light.

Iron

Safety curtain

socket

The type of connector used in audio equipment, sometimes also called jack.

Juve

Abbreviation for juvenile lead: the young male lead part

ladders

High rack for hanging lamps on the side of the stage. NOT FOR CLIMBING !!

Lamp

In the theater lamp which is set that, during normal use, we call light bulb called

lamp

The fact that in normal English we call light in the theater called the lantern.

He left

Step to the left, or the LHS, as you face the audience. Also called Prompt side

Legs

Curtains are used to cover the wings.

lightly

The American term for profile spot. The original brand name.

Lighting designer

Responsible for the development, focus and lighting for the production of building.

lime

Going back to the early days of stage lighting. (See Follow Spot)

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