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Theatre Vocab 1

Across
5. When an actor moves from one side of the stage to the other.
9. A signal that something else (a lighting change, a character's line, etc.) is about
to happen.
11. What a character does to get what they want.
13. A character's reasons for their actions in a play.
14. What prevents a character from getting what they want.
Down
1. The opposition of forces or characters in a play.
2. The central area of the stage.
3. The conversation between characters on stage.
4. A style of theatre where the dialogue is made up spontaneously by the actors.
6. What a character wants.
7. The character who changes the most over the course of a play.
8. The planning of the movement of actors on stage.
10. The area of stage furthest from the audience.
12. What a character means by what they say; not their actual dialogue.