This is a summarized Grade 9 Lesson

3. • Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art
that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses,
to present the experience of a real or imagined event
before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
• The performers may communicate this experience to
the audience through combinations of gesture, speech,
song, music, and dance.

4. The specific place of the
performance is also
named by the word
"theatre" as derived
from the Ancient Greek
θέατρον (théatron, "a
place for viewing"), itself
from θεάομαι
(theáomai, "to see", "to
watch", "to observe").

7. 1.CROSSFADER
- controls
the lights
simultaneously
from one cut
to another

8. 2. PROMPT BOOK
- containing
all the important
information about
the play.

9. 3. JACK KNIFE
PLATFORM
- a platform
that pivots on one
another.

10. 4. HAZER
- a machine
that creates a thin
mist of fog
throughout the
stage.

11. 5. CALLBOARD
- backstage
bulletin.

12. 6. GREEN ROOM
- common
area where
performers wait
until it’s their
turn.

13. 7. HOUSE
RIGHT/HOUSE LEFT
- the side of
the house in the
audience point of
view.

14. 8. SHOTGUN MIC
- pick up
sounds only
directly in front of
it.

15. 9. SET DRESSING
- decorations
that has no
function on the
set.

16. 10. WOOFER
- a speaker
that produces
low-end
frequencies.

17. 11. FALSE
PROSCENIUM
- a partial
that gives the set
its own “picture
frame”.

18. 12. AUDIENCE
BLINDERS
- used to
create a bright
wash of light on
the audience.

19. 13. BACK LIGHT
- light coming
from up-stage of
an actor.

20. 14. PERSONAL
PROPS
- items that
are carried onstage
by the actor during
a performance.

21. 15. BOOM STAND
- a
microphone with a
horizontal
attachment that can
reach over a
keyboard or some
actors.

22. 16. SUBWOOFER
- a speaker
designed to play
very low, almost
inaudible
frequencies.

23. 17. FRONT-OF-
HOUSE
- anything in
the house, rather
than onstage.

24. 18. MASKING
- the flats
that hide
backstage from
the audience.

25. 19. CASTERS
- the wheels
on a platform.

26. 20. STOCK SCENERY
- props and
platforms that are
stored and used in
different
productions.

27. • https://www.google.com/search?q=THEATER&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwirlauv7ZHgAhXCfd4KHTgsDzcQ_AUID
igB&biw=1366&bih=664#imgrc=Q09YxSeOB9g63M:
• https://www.writerstheatre.org/blog/father-modern-drama/
• https://www.slideshare.net/CharleneCheBelmonte/final-demo-technical-vocabulary-for-drama-and-theater-lesson-plan-tmdi-
format?qid=f617862c-7bca-458f-833e-1d2265612c57&v=&b=&from_search=1

35. 8. From whom did the theater famously started?
9. Who is the Father of Modern Drama?
10. It presents the experience of a real or imagined event
before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.