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Milk
To draw the maximum response from the audience from comic lines or action
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Off or Offstage
Off the visible stage
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On or Onstage
On the visible stage
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Overlap
To speak when someone else is speaking
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Pace
The movement or sweep of the play as it progresses
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Personal Props
Small props that are usually carried in an actor's costume, such as money, matches, a pipe, or a pen.
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Places
The positions of the actors at the opening of an act or scene
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Plot
- To plan stage business, as to "plot" the action
- To plan a speech by working out the phrasing, emphasis, and inflections.
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Principals
The main characters in a play
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Properties or Props
All the stage furnishings, including furniture
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Ring Up
To raise the curtain
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Role Scoring
The analysis of a character
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Script Scoring or Scripting
The marking of a script for one character, indication interpretation, pauses, phrasing, stress, and so on.
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Set
The scenery for an act or scene
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Set Props
Properties placed on a stage for the use of actors
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Subtext
Character interpretations which are not in a script but are supplied by the actor
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Giving the Scene
Shifting audience attention from one actor to another
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Turning the Scene In
Focusing audience attention on the actor who is the real center of dramatization
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Taking Yourself out of a Scene
The actor's turning away from the audience into a three-quarter back or full back position.
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Rising Inflection
Using the voice to indicate questioning, surprising, or shock.
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Falling Inflection
Using the voice to signal the end of a statement or to express depression, finality, or firmness.
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Sustained Inflection
Using the voice to suggest calmness, decisiveness, or steadyness of purpose by staying on the same note
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Circumflex Inflection
Using the voice to blend 2 or 3 sounds for a vowel that normally has a single sound, allowing the actor to stress a particular meaning or to change a word's meaning.
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