ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

theater; playhouse, opera house; house; music hall; amphitheater, circus, hippodrome,
theater in the round; puppet show, fantoccini † ; marionettes, Punch and Judy.
auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery, parquet; greenroom,
coulisses [Fr.].
flat; drop, drop scene; wing, screen, side scene; transformation scene, curtain, act
drop; proscenium.
stage, scene, scenery, the boards; trap, mezzanine floor; flies; floats, footlights;
offstage; orchestra.
theatrical costume, theatrical properties.
movie studio, back lot, on location.
part, role, character, dramatis personae [Lat.]; repertoire.
actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer;
mime, mimer † ; artists; comedian, tragedian; tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of
stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham,
hamfatter [Slang]; masker † .
pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo † , buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon,
columbine; punchinello † ; pulcinello † , pulcinella † ; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo
appearance; mute, figurante † , general utility; super, supernumerary.
company; first tragedian, prima donna [Sp.], protagonist; jeune premier [Fr.];
debutant, debutante [Fr.]; light comedian, genteel comedian, low comedian; walking
gentleman, amoroso † , heavy father, ingenue [Fr.], jeune veuve [Fr.].
mummer, guiser † , guisard † , gysart † , masque.
mountebank, Jack Pudding; tumbler, posture master, acrobat; contortionist; ballet
dancer, ballet girl; chorus singer; coryphee danseuse [Fr.].
property man, costumier, machinist; prompter, call boy; manager; director, stage
manager, acting manager.
producer, entrepreneur, impresario; backer, investor, angel [Fig.].
dramatic author, dramatic writer; play writer, playwright; dramatist, mimographer † .
V. act, play, perform; put on the stage; personate &c 554; mimic &c (imitate) 19; enact;
play a part, act a part, go through a part, perform a part; rehearse, spout, gag, rant; strut
and fret one's hour upon a stage; tread the boards, tread the stage; come out; star it.
Adj. dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined † , farcical,
tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic; stagy.
Adv. on the stage, on the boards; on film; before the floats, before an audience; behind
the scenes.
Phr. fere totus mundus exercet histrionem [Lat.] [Petronius Arbiter]; suit the action to
the word, the word to the action [Hamlet]; the play's the thing [Hamlet]; to wake the soul
by tender strokes of art [Pope].
CLASS V
WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS
DIVISION I
INDIVIDUAL VOLITION
SECTION I.
VOLITION IN GENERAL