2. Grand Drape
Front curtain that travels or opens and closes, not goes up or down.

3. Teaser
The Border at the very front of the proscenium in front of the Grand Drape.

4. Borders
Curtain at the top that hides bars

5. Legs
Curtains that form the wings.

6. Backstage
Area behind the set.

7. Wings
The sides of the stage in which actors wait to go on.

8. Crows Nest
The booth that the lights and sound are run from.

9. Dressing Room
Where actors get ready to go on the stage.

10. Green Room
Where actors wait to go on stage.

11. House
Where the audience sits.

12. Fly
Anything flown in to the staging area.
Verb – to fly in a fly

13. Backdrop
Painted canvas hung to represent a setting.

14. Cyclorama (cyc)
Background curtain that covers the back of the stage.

15. Scrim
Gauze screen used to create effects when combined with light.

16. Flat
Rectangular frame
covered with canvas
to use as scenery.

17. Dressing the stage
Decorating the scenery.

18. Stage Left
When standing on the stage, it’s your left.

19. Stage Right
When standing on the right, it’s your right.

20. Upstage
Area of the stage that is farthest from the audience.

21. Downstage
Area closest to the audience.

22. Cue
Signal to begin a line or action.

23. Dark
A night of no performance in a run.

24. Run
The days a play is being put on.

25. Black Out
Lights out.

26. “Lights Up”
When the lights come on the stage.

27. Gel Thin sheet of plastic available in a wide range of colors.
Used in front of a light to color the beam.

28. Gobo
Usually aluminum and inserted into the light to create a pattern on the stage.

29. Read Through
Cast reads their parts out loud with out physically acting it out.

30. Blocking Rehearsal
Practice where director places the actors in pictures and designates movements.

31. Tech Rehearsals
Rehearsals devoted to adding and perfecting the technical aspects of a production.

32. Run-Through
Rehearsal where the acting does not stop for working.

33. Call
Time actors and crew are to be at the theatre.

34. Go Up
Time the show begins.

35. Props
Anything an actor picks up and uses on stage.

36. Strike
To dismantle and put away everything used in the show.

37. The End
Commit these words to memory, as you will be tested on them on sometime next week.