Statistics for Theatre Terminology

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Passages of speech between characters	dialogue	78%
A secondary actor who fills in when an actor is unable to perform	understudy	78%
A form of acting in which performers make up their own lines and scenarios	improvisation	76%
The lowered part of the theatre where the orchestra sits	pit	76%
A door in the stage floor for actor to enter or exit	trap	64%
A speech in which an actor, usually alone, thinks aloud	soliloquy	59%
The reason a character does something	motivation	56%
A gradual dimming of the stage lights	fade	52%
The seating area of a theatre	house	51%
A flat surface or curtain used to represent a setting	backdrop	48%
Program or booklet containing information about the performance	playbill	48%
A narrow walkway from which scenery and drops are flown	catwalk	38%
The spoken part of a musical play	libretto	36%
A person who feeds actors forgotten lines during rehearsals	prompter	34%
A rhetorical device in which the audience knows something that the characters do not	dramatic irony	33%
Tape or marking on the stage to indicate placement of set pieces	spike marks	15%
Chief electrician in charge of lighting	gaffer	14%
When an actor, whose character is dead, moves onstage	corpsing	13%
A structure used to reduce the opening between the stage and the wings	proscenium	13%
A platform raised above the primary level of the stage	rostrum	4%
Appearance of truth; suspension of audience's disbelief	verisimilitude	3%
A rolling cart used to change scenery	jackknife	1%