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Apron: The front area of the stage, nearest the audience; the portion of the stage in front of proscenium arch. [2] Aside: A line spoken by an actor/actress directly to the audience, unheard by the other performers on-stage. [2] Assistant director: Works very closely with the director and with the cast. They will gather research on the ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
The game is played with a dictionary. Fictionary, also known as the Dictionary Game [1] or simply Dictionary, [2] is a word game in which players guess the definition of an obscure word. Each round consists of one player selecting and announcing a word from the dictionary, and other players composing a fake definition for it. The definitions ...
The play opened in June 1981 at the American Theater of Actors in New York. The doctor accused of manslaughter (whose real name was Dr. Kenneth Edelin), here named Dr. Winston Gerrard, is portrayed as a rather passive character; on the opposite end of the scale is the aggressive prosecutor, with the defense counsel in the middle.
A stage reading of a play in Washington, D.C., held by Solas Nua. A stage reading, also known as a staged reading, is a form of theatre without sets or full costumes. [1] The actors, who read from scripts, may be seated, stand in fixed positions, or incorporate minimal stage movement.
A readers theater performance. Readers theater is a style of theater in which the actors present dramatic readings of narrative material without costumes, props, scenery, or special lighting.
Word play is closely related to word games; that is, games in which the point is manipulating words. See also language game for a linguist's variation. Word play can cause problems for translators: e.g., in the book Winnie-the-Pooh a character mistakes the word "issue" for the noise of a sneeze , a resemblance which disappears when the word ...
A defining vocabulary is a list of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions. The underlying principle goes back to Samuel Johnson's notion that words should be defined using 'terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained', [1] and a defining vocabulary provides the lexicographer with a restricted list of high-frequency words which can be used for producing simple ...