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)