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Theatre and Film Vocabulary

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  • A play (or part of a play) where a character talks to the audience for a long time:
    Monologue
  • The person who tells actors what to do in plays and films:
    Director
  • In a play, actors have to follow a:
    Script
  • In many countries, films are _________ into different languages, so what the audience hears and the lip movements actors make are different.
    Dubbed
  • When there is no script, we are talking about:
    Improv
  • if the characters sing in italian or german, you're seeing an:
    Opera
  • An interaction between two characters:
    Dialogue
  • A figure of speech when you say SOMETHING IS SOMETHING ELSE:
    Metaphor
  • Plays and films are usually divided into three (or 5) of these:
    Acts
  • In cinema, BTS stands for:
    Behind The Scenes
  • A play that ends with a death
    Tragedy
  • The person who writes plays:
    Playwright
  • Someone who does the riskiest scenes instead of the main actor
    Stunt double
  • What do you call the area where the action takes place?
    Setting
  • A synonym for goal, which is very important for actors, is the O______ or T______
    Objective or Target
  • When you go to the theatre, you go to see a:
    play
  • The hero of the story is the:
    protagonist or main character
  • When you compare something to something else using LIKE or AS (in writing)
    A simile
  • It's where actors perform in a theatre:
    Stage
  • If the characters in a play start to sing and dance, it's not a play, it's a:
    musical
  • Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" was a ________-_________ hit
    Box-office
  • The people in a play are called the:
    characters
  • The _________ is the story we follow in a film/series/book, etc.
    plot
  • All the actors in a theatre play are the:
    Cast
  • Some movies are not filmed on location, they are filmed on _________
    Set
  • When actors study and go over the text:
    Rehearse
  • The bad guy, the person who is an obstacle to the protagonist:
    Antagonist
  • The things that have happened to a character before the main action:
    Background
  • Comedy, animation, thriller, adventure or romcom are only a few examples of film _________
    Genres
  • The person who writes scripts for films or series
    Screenwriter