August Word Challenge

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Enjoy the new challenge for the month!!!

This months prompt will be Theater/Drama. Though, I'm not limiting it to just theater/drama. Below you will find a list for inspiration - words relating to Theater/Drama. Let your imagination flow!!

The Word is Theater?Drama.

Create a written story (original or fandom based!!!), artwork, video, comic strip, icons including the word theme and a supernatural creature.



The List:

Acrobat: expert performer of physical feats

Achievement

Act: a major division of a play

Actor/Actress

Aisle

Amphitheater: a round, outdoor space with raised steps around a stage

Applause

Apron: section of stage floor closest to audience

Aside: actor’s lines spoken to audience, not to other actors

Audience

Audition: brief trial performance held to appraise an actor’s musician’s talent or suitability

Auditorium: room, hall or building used for performances

Awards

Backdrop: curtain painted as scenery hung at the rear of the stage

Backstage: wings, dressing rooms and other areas out of the audience view

Balcony

Banner

Barnstormer: traveling actor

Bill: performance or piece shown in the theater

Box-Office

Broadway

Burlesque: satire, a variety entertainment featuring comic skits, striptease or magic

Buzz

Cabaret: dancing, skits performed in a bar or a café

Cameo: small role played by a famous actor

Cast: a set of actors in a play

Choreograph

Chorus: a group of singers

Circuit: locations at which a touring company gives dramatically performances

Circus: traveling troupe of acrobats, clowns and trained animals

Contortionist: circus acrobat capable of assuming unnatural positions

Costume: an actor’s dress

Craft

Critics

Cue: a word or phrase or action signaling an actor’s line, entrance or exit

Debut: an actor’s first performance

Denouement: final resolution of a story’s plot

Design

Dialogue

Director

Diva: leading woman singer in a grant opera

Ensemble: a group of actors performing together

Entertainment

Epilogue: brief section at the conclusion of a play

Exit

Experience

Extra: an actor in a minor, non-speaking role

Failure

Farce: low comedy based on absurd situation

Features

Finale: final scene or musical number of a performance

Harlequin: masked, comic character

Histrionic: acting in a highly theatrical and in a exaggerated style

House

Host

Impresario: manage or director of a theater company

Improvisation: unrehearsed or impromptu performance

Independent

Intermission: interval between acts

Interpretation

Journalist

Judgment

Landmark

Laughter

Lead

Lights

Lines

Location

Lyrics

Magical

Makeup

Masque: elaborate costume play

Melodrama: dramatic form that exaggerate emotions

Members

Mime: actor who uses gesture and bodily movements to silently portray a character

Monologue: speech delivered at length by one actor

Mug: to make exaggerated, often comic, facial expression while acting

Music

Musical: light dramatic entertainment featuring musical interludes

Mystery/Mysterious

Nomination

Nominee

Off-Broadway

Opening Night

Orchestra

Pantomime: performance without spoken words

Performance

Plot: arrangement of narrative events in a play

Premiere: first performance of a play

Preview: performance of a play before its official opening

Prima Donna: principal woman singer

Production

Program

Projection

Prompt: to supply an actor with a forgotten line

Prop

Rehearsal

Reserve

Repertoire: stock of plays performed by a company

Revue: series of comic kits, songs, dances

Role

Scenario: outline of a play’s action

Scene: uninterrupted action within a play

Screenplay

Script

Seating

Seats

Sequence

Skit: short, informal comic piece

Slapstick: low comedy dependant ob physical humor

Sold-Out

Soliloquy: monologue expressing a character’s inner thoughts addressed to the audience

Solo

Songs

Spotlight

Stage

Stardom

Stooge: comic foil

Tableau: stage pictures created by actors posing motionless

Talent

Theater

Theme

Thespian: an actor

Tickets

Tragedy

Treatment

Tribute

Troubadour: wandering medieval singer

Understudy: actor versed in another’s part, ready to step in if needed

Usher: theater attendant who guides audience members to their seats

Vaudeville: theatrical entertainment that features a variety of performance

Vaudevillian: performer of comic roles

Venue

Vision

Walk-On

Wardrobe

Winner

Writer