Learning Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students are

expected to:
1. Familiarize with the technical terms related
to drama and theater,
2. Accomplish a puzzle through recalling
learned terminologies related to theater,
3. Enumerate the importance of familiarizing
terminologies in the field of theater.
 Technical
Theater
Vocabulary
 It is a collaborative
form of performing art
that uses live performers,
What is a usually actors or
theater/ actresses, to present the
theatre? experience of a real or
imagined event before a
live audience in a specific
place, often a stage.
 • Technical Theatre
encompasses all that
goes into making a
staged production. 
• All of these areas work What is
together in a technical
production to establish
the place, time period,
theater?
and mood of the
production.
 Technical
Theater
Vocabulary
• CROSSFADER—The
lever on a lighting control
console that simultaneously
dims all the channels from
one cut to the next.
• PROMPT BOOK—The
book compiled by the stage
manager, containing all the
pertinent information about
the show.
• JACKKNIFE
PLATFORM —A
platform that pivots on
one corner.
• VALENCE —A small
drapery that runs
across the top of the
grand drape and hides
the hardware that
suspends it.
• WING SPACE— The
space on the stage that
is not visible to the
audience.

• HAZER— A device that

creates a thin mist of
fog throughout the
stage.
• GREEN ROOM—
A common area where
performers wait until it is
time to go onstage.

• HOUSE RIGHT—
The right side of the
auditorium, from the
audience‘s point of view.
• SHOTGUN MIC
—A microphone designed
to pick up sound only
directly in front of it.
• STOCK SCENERY
—Flats and platforms that
are stored and used for
many different
productions.
• SET DRESSING
—Decorations that have no
function on a set, but are
merely placed there to look
good.

• CALLBOARD
—The backstage bulletin
board where announcements,
schedules and other
information is posted.
• FRONT-OF-HOUSE—
Anything in the house,
rather than onstage.
• WOOFER—A speaker
element that reproduces
the low-end frequencies.
• FLOORPLAN—The
diagram showing the
placement of the scenery
as viewed from above.
• FALSE PROSCENIUM
— A portal that gives the set
its own picture frame.
• AUDIENCE BLINDERS
— A bank of small PAR cans
all mounted in the same
fixture. Used to create a bright
wash of light on the audience.
• BACK LIGHT
— Light coming from upstage
of an actor.
• PERSONAL PROPS —
Items that are carried
onstage by the actor during a
performance.
• BOOM STAND— A
microphone with horizontal
attachment that can reach
over a keyboard or other
musical instrument.
• SUBWOOFER— A speaker
designed to play very low,
almost inaudible frequencies.
• DOUSER— The control
on a follow spot that fades
out the light by slowly
closing a set of doors.
• MASKING— The
draperies or flats that hide
backstage from the
audience.
• CASTERS— The wheels
on a platform.