Hi everyone! My name is Collin Lacroix, and I'm in the Arts, literature and communication program in the theater option since the autumn 2021, so for one and a half years now. This glossary will be used to help you to understand about specific concepts about the theatre in your acting and writing process if you want to do this in the future, or just want to know more about this field of study. This glossary can help to make the difference between the different theatre jobs that exists, and to understand in what they really consist. This glossary has around 20 difficult words.To find those words I used google, searched for important and complicated word on Wikipedia. I found the definition on an English dictionary on the Internet. To help you to understand what I'm doing in my field of study, you will need to read this glossary. Theatre is the art of playing, just like kids, the emotions that the scene gives to you. You need to be concentrated, and connected to the other to feel what they feel, and to completely understand the text, like you just received that information in your real life. You need to learn what happen in the story at the same time then the public, while knowing your texts. However, you need detachment, to not have to think about the text a second. Theatre can deliver strong politics messages or morals, be divertising or finally have a catharsis effect. It is fantastic because both of the actor, the writer or the public receives it, whenever they play, write, or just listen it.
a play
noun
A play is a work of drama, usually consisting mostly of dialogue between characters and intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. The writer of a play is called a playwright.
Example: One of the most famous Shakespeare play is Hamlet.
en: pièce de théâtre
Art therapy
noun
a form of psychotherapy involving the encouragement of free self-expression through painting, drawing, or modeling, used as a remedial activity or an aid to diagnosis.
Example: Beneficial effects of art therapy are difficult to quantify and claims are somewhat general.
en: Art thérapie
blackout
all stage lights go off at the same time.
Example: At the end of the show, they did a blackout of the stage.
en: Noir, fermeture des lumières
casting
noun
the assigning of parts in a play, film, or other production to an actor or actors.
Example: Tom Holland won't do the casting for the new Spiderman movie.
en: auditions
climax
noun
high point in the action of a scene
Example: When MacBeth killed the king, the play was at his climax.
en: dénouement
dialogue
noun
spoken lines in a skit or play; actual words that the
characters say with another character.
Example: "the book consisted of a series of dialogues"
en: Dialogue
intonation
noun
the rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
Example: She spoke English with a German intonation.
en: intonation
method acting
noun
a technique of acting in which an actor aspires to complete emotional identification with a part, based on the system evolved by Stanislavsky and brought into prominence in the US in the 1930s. Method acting was developed in institutions such as the Actors' Studio in New York City, notably by Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg, and is particularly associated with actors such as Marlon Brando and Dustin Hoffman.
Example: He is doing method acting, so he could feel the same as his character because they lived the same things and emotions.
en: méthode Stanislavski
Mimesis
noun
representation or imitation of the real world in art and literature.
Example: "Barth has always detached his use of plot from mimesis"
en: mimétisme
monologue
noun
a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.
Example: "he was reciting some of the great monologues of Shakespeare"
en: monologue
paralinguistic
adjective
elating to or denoting paralanguage or the nonlexical elements of communication by speech.
Example: Paralinguistic cues are important in any conversation, and they are crucial when you want to project authority and leadership.
en: paralinguistique
performance art
noun
an art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance.
Example: He combined his background in music with his performance art and found he had a following.
en: art de la performance
playwright
noun
a person who writes plays.
Example: Sometimes he is a playwright and sometimes he is a prose writer.
en: dramaturge
props
noun
A prop, formally known as (theatrical) property is an object used on stage or screen by actors during a performance or screen production.
Example: The set is minimal and the only props used in the show are a table, a chair and a glass of water.
en: accessoires
rigging
noun
the system of ropes, cables, or chains employed to support a ship's masts ( standing rigging ) and to control or set the yards and sails ( running rigging ). These are also used in theatre to support some stagecraft elements.
Example: We provide aluminum trussing, flown and ground supported rigging systems, theater drapes, star cloths, venue dressing and advertising banner rigging.
en: gréage
Script
noun
A scriptment is a written work by a movie or television screenwriter that combines elements of a script and treatment, especially the dialogue elements, which are formatted the same as in a screenplay.
Example: Two writers collaborated on the script for the film
en: scénario
semiotics
noun
the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.
Example: Theatre usually uses semiotics to make the public understand something whitout necessarily saying it.
en: sémiotique
stage whisper
noun
a loud whisper uttered by an actor on stage, intended to be heard by the audience but supposedly unheard by other characters in the play.
Example: “I've had more than I can stand,” she complained in a stage whisper.
en: aparté
stagecraft
noun
stagecraft, the technical aspects of theatrical production, which include scenic design, stage machinery, lighting, sound, costume design, and makeup.
Example: He dropped out in 1963 to pursue stagecraft, specifically lighting design.
en: scénographie
stagehand
noun
a person who moves scenery or props before or during the performance of a play.
Example: During the play, stagehands operate the lights.
