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ABTT
(Britain) The Association of British Theatre Technicians, which was formed in 1961 as a charity, to provide a forum for word among theatre technicians, architects and managers of all disciplines, and disseminate information of a technical nature, to all its members.
ABTT Website

ACT
1) Subdivision between sections of a play. A short play is a 'I-Act-er', a play with one interval has two Acts etc. Acts are subdivided further into Scenes.
2) The thing Actors tin can do which makes them unlike from Techies (!!).

Acting Surface area
That area inside the performance infinite within which the actor may move in full view of the audience. Besides known as the playing expanse.
This term is too used to draw the smaller subdivisions of the main stage area which are lit separately by the lighting designer (e.one thousand. 'The stage is split into 6 acting areas, three downstage and iii upstage').
An Acting Expanse Rehearsal (besides known as a Blocking Rehearsal) involves the actors running through their moves around the set, and less focus on the quality of the characterisation.
(As well the name of an early Strand down-lighting floodlight - it was called an Acting Surface area Flood, and was colloquially known as 'Ack Ack' or 'A.A.').

Aisle
A passage through seating.

Frock
The Apron is a section of the stage floor which projects towards or into the auditorium. In proscenium theatres, it'south the function of the phase in front of the house tabs, or in front of the proscenium arch, above the orchestra pit. Likewise known every bit Forestage.
If an apron stage extension is added to an existing traditional proscenium arch theatre, this often results in poor sight lines from seats that are higher in the auditorium, leading to audience members having to lean frontward in an attempt to run into.
German language: vorbühne (literally, forestage).

ARENA
Form of stage where the audience are seated on at least two (normally three, or all 4) sides of the whole interim area.
See Finish ON, THRUST, IN THE Circular.

ASM
Assistant Stage Manager.

Audition
Process where the manager or casting director of a production asks actors / performers to show them what they can practise. Sometimes very nerve-wracking, merely auditions can be a adequately painless process if handled properly. Performers are often asked to memorise a monologue from a play they like to perform for the director. Books total of suggested monologues are available. Yous may be asked to practice a 'Common cold Reading' which tests your ain response to a piece of text y'all've not prepared. Some audition processes accept pages of text available exterior the audience room for actors to familarise themselves with before the audition.

AUDITORIUM
The role of the theatre accommodating the audition during the performance. Sometimes known as the "firm". From the Latin Audio - "I hear".
German: Zuschauerraum

BACKSTAGE
The role of the stage and theatre which is out of the sight of the audience. The service areas of the theatre, behind, beside or underneath the stage. Also refers to the personnel who work in the technical departments that work to create the operation, aslope the actors and musicians.

BALLET
one) A widespread, highly technical form of dance with its ain vocabulary based on French terminology.
ii) A dance performance containing the music and choreography of a ballet.
Wikipedia entry

BEGINNERS
A call given past Stage Management to bring those actors who appear in the offset role of a play to the stage. e.g. "Act One Beginners to the stage, delight". The actors/actresses are then chosen by name.
A similar call is given after the interval (e.grand. "Act Two Beginners to the stage delight").
The telephone call is normally given 5 minutes earlier the advertised performance start fourth dimension, only this may vary depending on how long the actors take to get into position.
See also One-half, QUARTER.
See Calls and Cans

BLACK BOX
A kind of flexible small studio theatre where the audition and actors are in the same room, surrounded by blackness tabs (curtains). Doesn't necessarily describe the audience layout, which can be easily reconfigured.The stage can exist divers by a change of floor (due east.thousand. black trip the light fantastic toe flooring), or a raised platform. If actors go out the stage, they do and so through gaps in the curtains.
A black box type of venue is easy to gear up in not-theatre spaces, and can exist institute occupying hundreds of spaces around cities such as Edinburgh during their Fringe Festivals.

Blackout
1) Complete absence of phase lighting. Blue working lights backstage should remain on and are non usually under the command of the board, except during a Dead Coma (DBO), when there is no onstage light. Exit signs and other emergency lighting must remain on at all times.
two) The act of turning off (or fading out) stage lighting (east.thousand. "This is where we become to blackout")
3) Blackout Bank check takes place in some multi-purpose venues to ensure that window curtains or blinds are closed and that at that place is no stray calorie-free either from adjacent rooms or the outside world, before the audience is admitted.

BLACKS
1) Blackness wear worn by stage management during productions.
2) Any blackness drapes or tabs, permanently or temporarily rigged. Used for masking offstage and technical areas.
Running Blacks are full stage width black tabs with a split one-half way, which are normally fitted to a tab track so that they tin be opened and closed horizontally AND flown in and out. The tab track control can either be operated from phase level or from a wing flooring (when they're flown out).
Difficult Blacks are black-covered scenic flats used as masking.
A Full Stage Black is a black cloth which can exist flown in and is the full width of the stage. This is used to go upstage of a gauze to make transformation scenes work effectively, or can be used every bit a neutral backing for advisedly lit scenes downstage.
Blacks flown vertically at the edge of the stage are known as LEGS.
Blacks across the tiptop of the stage are BORDERS.

BLOCKING
The process of arranging moves to be fabricated by the actors during the play, recorded past stage management in the prompt script. Positions at the start of scenes are noted, equally are all movements around the stage (using terms such equally 'Gardener X DSL' meaning the Gardener crosses to downstage left.) Information technology must be described in minute detail, but simple enough to enable anyone to read and understand information technology. Also as existence used to 'run the evidence' the prompt book is also used for the rehearsal of the understudies.
Stages which are not cease-on must often utilise alternative notation, sometimes based on the clock face up or the points of a compass.
Blocking Note

Book Flat
Two flats hinged together on the vertical edge, to be free standing, and normally used as a backing for a doorway or window. They should always be 'run' with the hinged border leading, to prevent them opening up. Volume flats are free-standing when angled open up, assuasive quick setting and compact storage. Booking describes the action of opening or endmost a volume flat.
Flats - Types and Methods

BORDER
A narrow horizontal masking piece (flattage or cloth), normally of neutral colour (black) to mask the lighting rig and flown scenery from the audience, and to provide an upper limit to the scene. Oftentimes used in conjunction with LEGS.
Castilian: Bambalina

BOX Role
(UK) Part of the theatre front of business firm area where audience members tin can buy tickets. Most Box Offices are now computerised, and offer phone reservations. Some offer online (internet) bookings as well.
Also known as the Ticket Booth (Usa).
Run across besides WILL Telephone call.

BOX Gear up
Naturalistic setting of a complete room built from flats with but the side nearest the audience (the quaternary wall) missing.
A unmarried static box set that represents more than one room is chosen a COMPOSITE SET (for example if the living room and the kitchen are both on stage permanently).

Break A LEG
A superstitious and widely accepted alternative to 'Good Luck' (which is considered bad luck). More bachelor at the link below.
More on Break A Leg

CALL
1) A notification of a working session (eg a Rehearsal Call, Ring Call, Photograph Telephone call, Focus Call). A rehearsal phone call for the next day / week used to exist posted on a Call Sheet on the stage door noticeboard, but is at present oftentimes an online document, updated by the stage management team. A 'Company Phone call' ways the full cast and crew are chosen for the rehearsal.
2) The menstruum of time to which the above call refers. (eg "Your phone call for tomorrow nights show is 6.55pm")
3) A request for an actor to come to the phase because an entrance is imminent (these are courtesy calls and should non be relied on past actors - eg "This is your call for the finale Mr Smith and Miss Jones")
4) An acknowledgement of adulation (eg Curtain Telephone call)
v) The DSM on the book is said to exist "calling the cues".
half dozen) The Color Call is a listing of lighting gel required for the lighting rig.
seven) The Final Call is besides known equally The Half - 35 minutes before the performance starts, and the latest time when the cast and coiffure should exist in the theatre.

CALLBACKS
Following an audition, the manager may enquire to run into a shortlist of actors again - they are chosen back for an boosted audience to enable the manager to make her/his conclusion.

CAST
The members of the acting company. The Cast List contains the names of the actors and the characters they'll be playing.
Dramatis Personae is a Latin term for a list of the characters in a play.

CASTING
The process of the director choosing actors to perform the characters in the play.

Centre Heart
(CENTER Center in the Us) - the position in the eye of the phase space. Downstage Eye (DSC) is the position at the forepart of the stage, Upstage Centre (USC), and Centre Stage (CS) or CENTRE CENTRE is the heart. Firm Centre / House Heart is the centre line of the auditorium (which is usually the same as that of the stage).
Blocking Note

CENTRE LINE
Imaginary line running down the stage through the exact centre of the proscenium opening. Marked as CL on stage plans. Normally marked on the stage floor and used as a reference when mark out or assembling a set. A chalked snap line can be used to mark the line in the rehearsal room and on phase.
Known in the Us as CENTER LINE.
Firm Heart / Business firm Centre is the center line of the auditorium (which is normally the same as that of the stage).
Encounter as well SETTING LINE.

CLEARANCE
Message passed to Stage Direction from the Front of House Managing director that the house is ready for the performance to begin. (ie everyone is in their correct seat and there are no coach parties coming through the doors). Announced as 'We have Front of House Clearance'.

COMPANY
The cast, coiffure and other staff associated with a evidence.

COSTUMES
Dress worn past the actors onstage. The responsibility of the WARDROBE DEPARTMENT.

CUE
one) The command given to technical departments to carry out a detail performance. E.g. Lighting Cue, Fly Cue or Sound Cue. Normally given by phase management, but may be taken directly from the action (i.eastward. a Visual Cue).
2) Whatsoever signal (spoken line, activeness or count) that indicates another action should follow (i.e. the actors' cue to enter is when the Maid says "I hear someone coming! Quick - Hide!" - this is known as a Cue Line.
Cues given verbally may be known equally 'audible cues', although as this is the normal blazon of cues, they're commonly just chosen 'Cues'. Cues that technical operators take themselves, without an aural cue, are known as Visual Cues.
3) A journal published betwixt 1979 and 1988. A complete collection of CUE journals is available on the Backstage Heritage Collection website to read online.
The Prompt Book

CUE TO CUE
(also known as 'Topping and Tailing')
Cutting out activity and dialogue betwixt cues during a technical rehearsal, to save fourth dimension. (eastward.g. "OK, tin can I stop y'all at that place - nosotros'll now jump to the end of this scene. We'll pick it up from Simon's line "And from then on it was all downhill" in a moment. OK - we're all prepare - when you're ready please.")

CURTAIN CALL
At the finish of a performance, the acknowledgement of applause by actors - the bows.
Hungarian: tapsrend.

CYCLORAMA
Unremarkably shortened to merely cyc (pronounced sike). The Cyclorama is a curved plain material or plastered wall filling the rear of the phase or TV studio. Often used as a sky backing to a traditional fix, or as the master bankroll for a dance piece etc. The term is often loosely practical to a bluish skycloth, or any flattage at the rear of the phase. Although strictly a cyc should exist curved, most cycs are flat with curved wraparound ends. A more than effective backing can be obtained by hanging a sharkstooth gauze just in forepart of the apparently white cyc which gives a hazy result of distance.
From Greek Cyclos (circle) and Horama (view or vision).
The first plaster cyclorama in the Uk is believed to be at the Festival Theatre, Cambridge (1929)
Run across also Bounce, ISORA. The High german equivalent term is operafolie.

Night
A venue that has been closed to the public. Some theatres go night temporarily during production periods, when the side by side testify is in preparation on phase. To keep the audience (and their coin) coming in, some venues show films or have other activities not involving the stage.

DIALOGUE
The spoken text of a play - conversations between characters is dialogue. See MONOLOGUE and DUOLOGUE.

DIRECTOR
There are many types of director.
Broadly, the role involves existence responsible for the overall artistic vision of a product.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - Normally in accuse of the programming of a venue. May likewise direct shows.
EXECUTIVE Manager - Manager in charge of the administration of a venue.
TECHNICAL Director - In charge of the technical requirements of a production.
(The term LIGHTING DIRECTOR is used in the UK for a Television Lighting Designer).

DOOFER
An object or tool that you're not certain of the correct name for. For example, 'Laissez passer me the doofer so I tin can sort this thingy'.

DOWNSTAGE
1) The role of the stage nearest to the audience. It's chosen Downstage because it's the lowest part of a raked stage. Downstage Left (DSL), Downstage Centre (DSC) and Downstage Right (DSR) are usually used for the areas towards the front of the stage. [Run into Diagram]
2) A movement towards the audience (in a proscenium theatre).

DRAMATIC Intermission
A cursory pause (a few beats) in an actors' delivery of a line to emphasise a moment or to raise anticipation.
It's of import that the DSM does not shout out the next line, while the lead thespian is pausing dramatically.

DRESS REHEARSAL
A total rehearsal, with all technical and creative elements brought together. The functioning equally it will be 'on the nighttime'.
German: hauptprobe (terminal rehearsal)

DRESSING ROOMS
Rooms containing clothes rails and mirrors (oftentimes surrounded with lights) in which actors change into their costumes and apply make-upwards. Dressing Room doors accept a list of the actors contained within.
Run across also GREEN ROOM.

FLAT
A lightweight timber frame covered with scenic canvas, or plywood. Flats are used to provide a lightweight and easy to move and re-configure properties to a stage set up. Flats sometimes have windows or doors built into them to provide extra flexibility, for utilize in realistic settings. Masking flats are used to hide areas the designer does not want the audience to see, or to provide actors with an exit, or somewhere to store props.
(UK) A flat is supported past a stage brace and caryatid weight, connected to the flat using a screw heart.
Hardboard is sometimes used, only is unnecessarily heavy and will lose it's shape in time. Near theatres have a range of stock flattage made to a standard size, and re-used many times.
A Track is a horizontal batten within a flat.
A Stile is a side or vertical piece inside a flat.
A Sill is the bottom rail of a apartment.
A soft flat is covered with sheet, and a difficult flat is covered with plywood.
See also Book FLAT, HOLLYWOOD.
[French: Flat = panneau]
Flats - Types and Methods

Front OF Business firm (FOH)
1) Every part of the theatre in front of the proscenium curvation. Includes entrance hall areas open to the general public.
2) All lanterns which are on the audience side of the proscenium and are focussed towards the stage.
The backstage areas of the theatre are known as Rear of House (ROH).

Get-IN
The process of moving set up, props and other hardware into a theatre prior to the fit-up. (aka LOAD IN (US) and BUMP IN (Aus.) and PACK IN (NZ.))

Go-OUT
Moving an entire production out of the venue, and back into storage or into transport. Usually preceded by the strike (where the set is disassembled back into component parts.
The Get Out is also known every bit Load Out (USA) or Crash-land Out (AUS.) or Pack Out (NZ).

Dark-green ROOM
Room close to the phase (i.due east. the light-green) for the actors to run across and relax earlier or afterward going on stage. Run across the link beneath for some possible derivations of the term.
More than well-nigh Green Room

HALF
one) The Half is a telephone call given to the actors one-half an hour before they will be called to the stage for the beginning of a performance. It is given 35 minutes before the advertised time of beginning (in the UK). On Broadway, the Half is given 30 minutes before the start time.
Subsequent calls given are the 'quarter' at 20 minutes (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland), 'the five' at 10 minutes (Uk) and 'beginners to the phase' at 5 minutes earlier drape upwards (Great britain). See also FRONT OF HOUSE CALLS, QUARTER.
Also known as Last Call.
See also BEGINNERS.
2) Lighting - half of total intensity, or fifty% (e.g. 'Can I accept channel 12 at one-half?'). This dates from a fourth dimension when lighting was manually controlled, and accurate percent-indicate levels were non doable (or at least, not repeatable accurately). Nowadays, designers are more likely to enquire for 'channel 12 at 50%' and then 'up a signal' or 'down a signal', meaning +/- 10%.
Meet Calls and Cans

House
1) The audience (eg 'How large is the house this night ?')
2) The auditorium (eg 'The house is now open, please do not cross the stage')

IATSE / I.A.T.S.E.
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (Usa) Stage employees spousal relationship.
IATSE website

INTERVAL
Intermission betwixt sections of a functioning. During a play, the interval is usually half way through a standard length performance (approx 1 hour each half) and is ordinarily 15 or 20 minutes in duration. Known in the United states equally an INTERMISSION.
For a full house, a xx minute interval may be necessary. However, if at that place are no refreshments available, the interval can be shorter.
A performance of less than ninety minutes in length could run straight through with no interval, although this wlil affect the theatres' takings for the dark.

LINES
Scripted words to be spoken past actors.
Example phrases: "Do yous know your lines for Scene two all the same?", "You missed a few lines at the end of the scene", "What's my next line".
See besides SIDES.

MARKING OUT
Sticking tapes to the floor of the rehearsal space to indicate the groundplan of the scenery. Likewise for marking position of furniture etc. within a set. Always exist enlightened that some tapes may damage or mark some wooden floor surfaces! (sometimes known every bit the markup).
The groundplan has lines on it, which correspond to easily-found locations in the theatre - most commonly, the middle line and the setting line (which is the proscenium line, or the border of the phase).
Measurements on the plan can easily exist scaled up to the existent-life measurements, and the position can be marked on the stage flooring by measuring from the real-world centre line and setting line in the theatre.

MATINÉE / MATINEE
Afternoon performance of a show. (From the Latin for 'of the morning time', only who does theatre in the forenoon?)

NODA
UK National Operatic and Dramatic Association, for amateur theatre producers, performers and crew.
NODA website

Non-VERBAL
Literally, anything involving communication or expression without words. Physical THEATRE and DANCE are examples of types of theatre which can be not-verbal.

OFFSTAGE
one) A motion towards the nearest side of the stage from the centre. (e.g. 'Focus that spot offstage a chip please')
2) The area out of sight of the audience (e.yard. 'Get that donkey offstage !')

OPEN
The offset of the run of a show in a venue. (e.m. 'When does the new musical open at the Diverseness Theatre?' or 'The prove opened a few weeks agone - it's had some smashing reviews'.)

PARODOS
Parodos (also parode and parodus, plural parodoi, Aboriginal Greek) is a term used in the theater of ancient Greece, referring either to a side-entrance, or to the showtime song sung by the chorus after its entrance from the side wings.

PLAY
A piece of text containing lines and phase directions designed to be performed live on a stage in forepart of an audience.
A play rarely contains wordy prose descriptions of locations or scenarios, but sometimes the layout of a scene is described at the outset of the scene to enable the production team and actors to see quickly what elements the stage set should consist of. The design of the stage (the layout, materials, finishes and colours used) is the job of the set designer. The manager of the play works with the actors to bring the text to life, which may involve a large reworking of the original playwrights descriptions of the scene. A performing licence is required from the plays' publishers to give permission for the play to be performed, which will involve a payment for royalties to the playwright. This licence may likewise involve stipulations that the text must be performed exactly as written with no additions or omissions.
A Teleplay is a script written or adapted for a television production.
A Screenplay is a script for a TV or Film production.
See too MUSICAL, RADIO PLAY.

PLAYWRIGHT
The author of a play. Also known every bit a dramatist.

PRESET
1) Anything in position before the beginning of a scene or human action (eg Props placed on stage before the performance, lighting country on stage every bit the audience are entering.)
2) The procedure of putting any part of the production into its' starting position / setting. A Preset Checklist is used by stage management and all other technical teams, to ensure that everything is correctly set to start the prove.
3) An independently controllable department of a manual lighting lath which allows the setting up of a lighting state before it is needed. Each preset has a principal fader which selects the maximum level of dimmers controlled past that preset. A control desk-bound with two presets is sometimes known equally a '2 scene preset' desk.

PRESHOW
The period before the performance begins, when the audition may be in the front-of-business firm areas, or even in the auditorium.
The preset (pre evidence lighting state) is shown on stage, and can exist used to set the mood for the functioning. Pre show music or a soundscape is too used for the aforementioned reason.

Professional
Usually used for someone who's regularly paid for a particular job (equally opposed to an amateur, who does it for fun). A professional mental attitude is essential when working in the theatre - this means you have to conduct every bit if you were being paid. The theatre globe is a very small customs - if you conduct badly or upset someone, it's highly likely you'll meet them once again, and they will think you!

PROMPT CORNER
Surface area, traditionally on the phase left side of the stage, from which the stage managing director (or DSM) controls ('prompts') the performance, from the prompt desk.

PROPS
(Properties) Furnishings, fix dressings, and all items large and pocket-sized which cannot be classified as scenery, electrics or wardrobe. Props handled by actors are known as hand props, props which are kept in an actors costume are known as PERSONAL PROPS.

PROSCENIUM ARCH
The opening in the wall which stands betwixt stage and auditorium in some theatres; the picture frame through which the audience sees the play. The "4th wall". Ofttimes shortened to Proscenium or Pros Curvation.
In some older theatres, the Proscenium Curvation is ornate and painted to dissimilarity with the surrounding walls, to actually brand it stand out. Nothing exterior the Proscenium Arch was part of the show.
Still, every bit there are many dissimilar audience layouts at present, many theatres (peculiarly multi-purpose studio theatres) take no Proscenium Curvation at all, or it may not be decorated as such.
Meet Terminate ON.
Italian: Boccascena
French: cadre de scène

RADIO PLAY
A play that has been written specifically for an audio-only environment, usually to be broadcast on the radio.
Radio Drama at Theatrecrafts.com

RAKED Stage
A sloping stage which is raised at the dorsum (upstage) end. Many theatres with a 'stalls' seating expanse used to be built with raked stages equally a matter of course. Today, the stage is often left flat and the auditorium is lifted to stage level and in a higher place to ameliorate the view of the phase from all seats. A rake is expressed as a ratio (eg a i:25 rake rises by 1cm vertically over 25cm horizontally).
Come across also ANTI-RAKE.

RUN
1) A sequence of performances of the same production. (e.g. 'How long is the run of this show?' or 'This testify runs for two weeks')
2) A rehearsal of the whole show or a section of it (e.thousand.'This afternoon'due south rehearsal will exist a run of Act 2 followed by notes'). Run-throughs early on in the rehearsal schedule are sometimes known equally STAGGERS as actors are unsure of their lines.
A SPEED RUN is a rehearsal at faster than normal pace, concentrating on player moves and entrances / exits rather than the quality of performance. This can only take place in the rehearsal room - in one case technical elements are included, a CUE TO CUE run is used, which jumps over long sequences with no technical elements to concentrate on polishing the cues.
See also ITALIAN RUN, RUSSIAN RUN

SET
1) To fix the stage for activity. (verb) - e.g. 'Take you set the chairs for Act one?'
2) The complete stage setting for a scene or act. (noun) - east.g.'What's the set up for the finale?' French: décors.
Run into also RESET.

SIDES
Printed pages of lines given to actors on a moving-picture show or Boob tube evidence. Lines are frequently changed / refined at the last minute, so a script printed at the offset of the project will exist out-of-date very quickly.
Sides are also given out at auditions for actors to work with, without needing to requite them the whole script.
See also LINES.

STAGE LEFT / Correct
Left/ Right every bit seen from the Thespian's point of view on stage. (ie Stage Left is the right side of the stage when looking from the auditorium.)
Phase Correct = OP (Opposite Prompt) French: Cote Jardin, Netherlands: Toneel Links (translates to Stage Left!)
Stage Left = PS (Prompt Side) French: Cote Cour, Netherlands: Toneel Rechts (translates to Stage Right!).
NB: The Netherlands, Portugal and Germany use the reverse to the rest of Europe; i.e. Stage Left Britain = Stage Right. The directions are seen from the director'due south and audience's perspective, NOT the actors. In Portugal Isquerda (left) is the equivalent of UK Stage Right and Direita (correct) is the equivalent of UK Stage Left.

STAGE Managing director PHRASES
"Get on your cues" - actors and crew members must concentrate so that they react as soon every bit they get a cue, non once they notice others reacting.
"Quiet Backstage" - in that location should be no talking backstage or in the wings unless essential, so only at a whisper.
"Quiet On Cans" - the headset system (for communicating betwixt crew members) must only be used for giving and receiving cues. There should be no unnecessary chatter.

STAPLER
Essential tool for attaching textile to wooden frames / flats.

TABS
1) Originally "tableaux curtains" which drew outwards and upwards, only at present generally applied to whatever stage curtains including a vertically flying front mantle (house tabs) and especially a pair of horizontally moving curtains which overlap at the center and move outwards from that heart.
[In French, tabs areRideau. The principal tabs or house tabs are Rideau d'avant-scène. In Castilian, the primary tabs are Bambalinón.
A narrow stage curtain used for masking is Pendrillon
In Italian, tabs are Sipario.]
2) TABS was a periodical published by Strand Electric betwixt 1937 and 1986, about phase lighting and other equipment produced by the company. The Backstage Heritage Collection archive has a complete drove of TABS journals for you to read online.
TABS archive

TECH
1) Short for Technical Rehearsal. (e.g. 'The Tech took 14 hours')
ii) A member of (amateur) crew ('I'g the lighting tech for this show')

TECHNICAL ELEMENTS
Technical elements stand aslope the text of the performance and assist to reinforce themes and communicate ideas, and to ensure the audience understand and appreciate the story, and to help the actors tell the story.
Ordinarily used technical elements include:
Scenery / Gear up: The physical environs in/on which the actors perform
Costume: Everything worn by the actors
Props: Pocket-size items placed on the fix and/or carried past the actors
Lighting: Enables the audience to see the actors and physical elements, and adds additional temper and  layers of meaning through use of colour and direction of light.
Audio: Enables the audition to hear the actors and/or music, and also adds a layer of audio in improver to the text, to, again, reinforce meaning and add atmosphere.
Wigs, Pilus & Make-Up: Adds a layer of additional character to the actors' performance by altering their physical appearance to be more in-keeping with the period or character being portrayed.

TECHNICAL REHEARSAL
(also known as the TECH RUN, or just TECH). Usually the kickoff time the evidence is rehearsed in the venue, with lighting, scenery and sound. Costumes are sometimes used where they may cause technical bug (eg Quick changes). Often a very lengthy process. Often abbreviated to the Tech.
A Dry out TECH is without actors to rehearse the integration of lighting, scenic changes etc. It follows that a Moisture TECH is a full technical rehearsal with actors and all technical elements, although this term isn't used as oftentimes every bit Dry TECH.
A Paper TECH is a session without the set or actors when the technical and design team talk through the evidence ensuring everything's going to work as planned. Phase Managers can utilize this session to ensure all is written correctly in the Prompt Book.

THEATRE WORDS
OISTAT projection to offer translations of theatrical terminology into global languages.
Although an app was available, it doesn't work on latest versions of smartphones.
See website for latest information.
Theatre Words website

TREADS
General name for any phase staircase or set of steps used on stage. The stride of the staircase is called the tread, and the superlative of the staircase depends on the number of risers. The length of the staircase is called the going. Treads tin be either open or closed string - meaning whether the riser is solid or not. The railroad vehicle provides the structural support for the treads, and can exist either closed carriage or open carriage. Open carriage treads have nothing higher up / enclosing the meridian surface of each riser. Closed railroad vehicle treads may have a continuous structural piece enclosing the edges of the tread unit.

UPSTAGE
1) The part of the stage furthest from the audition. Information technology's chosen Upstage because on a raked stage the stage slopes down towards the audience to better sightlines. The furthest from the audience is literally higher due to the slope of the phase, and then moving from close to the audience involves walking upwards the raked stage, towards 'Upstage'.
US = Upstage, USC = Upstage Centre. USL = Upstage Left. USR = Upstage Right (see diagram)
See also DOWNSTAGE, ONSTAGE.
ii) When an actor moves upstage of another and causes the victim to plow abroad from the audience south/he is 'upstaging'. Also, an actor cartoon attention to themselves away from the main activity (past moving around, or over-reacting to onstage events) is upstaging.

VISUAL CUE
A cue taken by a technician from the action on stage rather than being cued by the stage manager. Frequently abbreviated to "Viz" or "Vis".

WINGS
i) The out of view areas to the sides of the acting area (known as FLÜGEL in German). The wings are best identified past their position on phase (e.g. "Clive exits through the downstage left wing") just they tin can be identified by number if there are besides many exits, with the downstage wing starting as 1, with stage left and correct added to identify the side (e.chiliad. "Sarah exits 2L").
ii) Scenery standing where the acting surface area joins these technical areas.

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