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| True proscenium stage (apron was eliminated)- intentionally built to separate audience from what was happening on stage |
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| profound changes in religion, philosophy, psychology, and economics |
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-acting is doing
-acting is portraying a character's wants and needs through artistically truthful behavior
-acting is NOT showing, illustrating, narrating, exhibiting
-acting is NOT dressing up and displaying emotions |
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-the actors goal is to tell the characters circumstances in the plays story as effectively as possible
-circumstances: time, place & surroundings |
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-from outside inward
-appraoch a role through a deep and passionate study of human behavior in all its outward forms |
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| approached acting as an imitation of life--he called acting "mimical behavior" |
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-from the inside outward
-a creative process that allows personal behavior to develop out of the playwrights prescribed circumstances |
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-proposed that actors understand how men and women actually behave physically and psychologically in given circumstances
-created "the method" (internal)
-what mattered to him was the actors truth |
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-Actors learned to experience what their chracter experienced as IF it were actually happening to them
-challenged to give individual truthful performance |
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| A scene is rarely about what is being said... |
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| ...From the actor's point of view |
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| Have to recall emotional or sensitive response to substitute the emotions you felt at one time for the same emotions one conveys in role |
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-professional actor has an agent (agent gets 10% of what actor makes)
-give two contrasting monologues (one or two min each) |
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| The Professional Actors Unions |
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-AEA (Actors Equity Association)
-SAG (Screen Actors Guild)- film union;camera
-AFTRA (American Federation of Telephone and Radio Artists)- voiceovers |
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-director is the controlling artist responsible for unifying all production elements
-collaborates to create onstage a carefully selected vision of life-a special mirror |
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| Early Responsibilities of Director |
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1)Agreeing to direct an offered script or selecting or creating a script
2)Deciding on the "spine" of the play
3)Casting actors
4)Working with other theatre artists
5)Rehearsing the actors
6)Coordinating all elements into final stage performance |
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-Preplanned movements, "making pictures"
-Collaborative approach-actor and director working together |
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| What is improvisation used for? |
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-Compiles the prompt book
-Records stage business
-Recording the blocking
-Lighting
-Sound and other cues
-Makes rehearsal schedule
-coordinates rehearsal
-runs the show after it opens
-the groundplan |
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| Basically the script with EVERY single cue |
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| What is "stage business"? |
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| Specific actions such as answering the phone or turning on a table lamp |
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-Director and designer work out the plays environment, noting doorways, windows, steps, levels, walls, and furniture
-Outlined in tape on the rehearsal hall floor so that actors can visualize the environment in rehearsals |
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| Scene designers objectives |
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-help set the tone and style of the production
-establishing locale and period
-developing concept
-providing a central image or metaphor
-coordinating scenery with a whole
-solving practical design problems |
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-Line
-Mass
-Composition
-Texture
-Color |
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-scene designer for Death of a Salesman
-selective realism* |
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eliminate nonessentials
jo mielziner |
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| Modern Theatre Began With These Three Playwrights |
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-Henrik Ibsen
-August Strindberg
-Anton Chekhov |
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-Father of modern drama
-wrote plays about contemporary life, particularly those of the individual caught in a repressive society
-wrote A Doll House |
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-Henrik Ibsen
-Norweigan Middle Class |
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-Sets real, costumes real, dialogue usually real, situtation probably not real
-Playboy of the Western World-John Millington Synge
-Desire Under the Elms-Eugene O'Neill |
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-Promoting social change
-Waiting for Lefty- Clifford Odets |
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| Realism and Expressionism |
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-opposite of realism
-uses emotional states/moods
-A Glass Menagerie-Tennessee Williams
-Death of a Salesman-Arthur Miller |
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-magic
-tests our suspending of disbelief in the theatrical experience
-Six Characters in Search of an Author-Louigi Pirandello |
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-grew out of existentialism; no meaning in life
-coined by Martin Esslin
-Happy Days-Samuel Beckett
-Waiting for Godot-Samuel Beckett
-The Bald Saprano-Eugene Ionesco |
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-Dream: to be well-liked
-Message of play: can't sit back and let world fulfill your dreams for you- you have to start somewhere and work hard to achieve your goals!
-Considered a tragedy but not by aristotles definition b/c he is not of noble birth |
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| the entranceway through the audience; where the audience can enter, can be on the right,center,or left |
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| manages the house; works closely with the box office; makes sure that there are ushers; have to weigh the house |
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| make sure that the audience is even; not more on one side than another |
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| people that come late to the play; the director figures out a part in the play where the audience can come in and they have to wait in the lobby till the proper time and enter through certain entrance and sit in the back |
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| black curtains that hide the wings; can make entrances onto the stage in-between the legs |
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| offstage areas on the sides of the stage |
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| the short curtain across the stage; hides the instruments |
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| lights at the foot of the stage |
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| lights appear on one character at a certain moment then fade, character is not moving, usually for a monologue |
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| spotlight that follows a certain character on stage; hand operated from the back; used usually in concerts/musicals |
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| a quick change of clothes |
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| either made of colored or glowing tape; marks where to put an object on stage during a blackout |
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| to remove/destroy; can refer to objects or the entire set |
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| the people that are backstage doing all of the work; help with props, quick change, assembling |
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| means of communication for technicians, light and sound operators |
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| have to have a fitting for costumes; appointment worked into rehearsals |
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| usually a rehearsal in a production where they will take photos and give them to the media |
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| actors are required to be at production a half hour early; at five minutes, have to go to places if you are in the first scene; can have a delayed half hour if dont come on until later in play |
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| after the five minute call before the play, the stage director calls the actor to their places |
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| technical rehearsal; the union allows the theater to work the actors for 10 hours out of a 12 hour day |
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| first day of rehearsal; read through the play 2 or 3 times; get the feel of the play |
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| technical rehearsal without actors |
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| a rehearsal with costumes after have been rehearsing for 2-3 weeks |
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| technical rehearsal where go to cue to cue; run of the show with cuts |
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| only the onstage is controlling the lights; not controlled by the booth; ex: An actor turns on a lamp onstage |
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| a filter put on the lights to create a certain type of shadow which is illuminated on the floor of the stage |
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| a film put in front of the light to create a certain color for an effect; ex: late sunlight |
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| can be with sound or lights for a dramatic effect |
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| the union requires certain breaks after a certain amount of time; the stage manager has to make sure that the union rules are followed |
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| deals with costumes and/or props; usually made out of cheaper fabric to wear as a substitute during a rehearsal to get used to the costume and not mess up the real costume |
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| used by spike marks and to help actors get on and off stage |
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| during the audition process there are extras from the script; thats what they want you to do when you audition and have been called back |
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| above the stage is a catwalk and a grid; the grid is where the instruments are hung |
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| tells the actor where to stand |
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| the placement and movement of actors in a dramatic presentation |
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| blocking/moving across stage |
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| go through the play just doing the lines |
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| sit down and speed through the script as fast as you can to see who knows their lines and cues, also to pick up speed |
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| after rehearsing for about 1 1/2 weeks, do the show so far doing the best you can |
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| rehearsing for about 3 weeks, do the play for other people to see such as the designers |
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| when you forget your line in a performance |
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| in rehearsals when the stage manager has to give you your line |
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| room backstage to relax before you go onstage |
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| at 15 min call they call for your valuables and lock them up so they dont get stolen during the play |
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| you have to sing in at half hour to let the stage manager know that the actors are there |
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| where the stage manager and the light and sound operators are |
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-Great playwright of the Depression
-Epic social dramas
-First one to create complex black characters
-First to create a bleak version of the American Dream |
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| A Long Days Journey Into NIght |
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-Saddest play ever written
-An American classic about the disintegration of family plagued by illness and addiction
-Eugene Oneill |
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-play about addiction, fear & hope
-set at the bar Eugene always went to in NY
-inspired by own alcoholism and depression
-Eugene O'Neill |
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-mirror opposite of family depicted in A Long Days Journey Into Night
-Eugene O'Neill |
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-FDR's new deal
-unemployed people were paid to work on theatre projects during the Great Depression
-launched many careers |
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| all black production; great sucess of the Federal Theatre Project |
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-most influential traveling group
-22 new plays
-1930s |
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-1st broadway musical
-family of showboat performers in segregated south
-suffering, poverty, racism, sex & show business
-Kern & Hammerstein |
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| Oklahoma; Sound of Music; Carousel |
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-2nd great musical on broadway
-about ordinary people and their troubles and falling love
-collaboration (music & words)
-Rodgers & Hammerstein |
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-choreographer of oklahoma
-BALLET DREAM SEQUENCE** changed broadway |
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-realm of dance
-juevenille delinquency |
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| Origins of Broadway Musical |
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-yiddish/jewish
-genuine peoples theatre
-song, dance & spectacle |
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-"Awake & Sing"
-had to testify for HUAC
-received financial assistance from several unlikely benefactors
-tried to go to hollywood, ended up writing for tv |
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-American self help
-SOCIAL REALISM
-strike! |
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| gave financial assistance to Odets; thought he was God |
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| House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC) |
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-Odets had to testify
-went looking for communists
-accused Arthur Miller |
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-Arthur Miller
-struggle of an American man to gain control of his life |
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| comparison of Red Scare to Salem Witch Trials; Arthur Miller |
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| "forgiving poet of the heart"; wrote of love stories in the South |
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-1st time sexuality of that magnitude was portrayed on stage
-the power of sexual desire to overcome a want of affection
-a plea for the understanding of delicate people
-Tenn. Williams |
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| Williams' first performed play based on his postwar childhood |
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| first play to be written by a black woman, directed by a black man & starring black actors; family trapped by poverty and racism |
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Expressionism and Realism...
1)Desire Under the Elms
2)Death of a Salesman
3)Waiting for Godot
4) Six Characters in Search of an Author |
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Death of a Salesman and A Doll House were written during different periods, but they share some similarities. Which of the following would most accurately fit as one of those similarities?
1)the plays both take place in the home of a banker
2)the dialog |
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| 2)the dialogue is realistic |
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Modern Theatre began with three playwrights. Which of the following is out of place?
1)Henrik Ibsen
2)August Strindberg
3)Constantin Stanislavski
4)Anton Chekhov |
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| 3)Constantin Stanislavski |
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Ibsen rebelled against the 'well-made play' format in his works. Which part of the 'well-made play' does not exist in A Doll House?
1)exposition
2)rising action/suspense
3)surprises
4)climax
5)well defined resolution |
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| 5)well-defined resolution |
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MATCHING:
1. poetic realism
2. social realism
3. realism and expressionism
4. antirealism
5. absurd
21)Waiting for Godot
22)Death of a Salesman
23)Desire Under the Elms
24)Waiting for Lefty
25)Six Characters in Search of an Author |
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21)absurd
22)realism & expressionism
23)poetic realism
24)social realism
25)antirealism |
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| True or False: Torvald is the villain of Ibsen's A Doll House. |
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| T or F: Willy is hiding his will in the basement of their house. |
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| T or F: Arthur Miller is best known as the father of modern drama. |
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| T or F: Arthur Miller's repsonse to HUAC was his play Waiting for Lefty. |
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| T or F: The plot of Death of a Salesman must unfold chronologically in order for it to have its celebrated dramatic effect. |
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| T or F: Agnes DeMille brought dance to the Broadway Musical. |
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| T or F: Willy is hiding a rubber hose in the basement of their house. |
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| T or F: Clifford Odets 'named names' during Arthur Miller's The Crucible. |
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| T or F: The original title for Death of a Salesman was to be The Inside of His Head |
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Which of the following is NOT one of the directors early responsibilities?
1)rehearsing the actors
2)casting actors in various parts
3)deciding on the texts look or 'spine'
4)determining the union rules for the actors
5)working with other theatre art |
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| 4)determining union rules for the actors |
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Acting is not...
1)showing
2)narrating
3)illustrating
4)all of the above
5)2 and 3 only |
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Which of the following is not one of the stage managers duties?
1)recording the blocking
2)recording the stage business
3)running the show
4)casting actors in various parts
5)compiling the prompt book |
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| 4)casting actors in various parts |
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In the video showed in class, Julie Taymor explained that there was a 'sense of danger' about theatre. What is she referring to?
1)the diversity of the audience
2)the censorship of the government
3)the aliveness & the immediacy
4)the collaboration of |
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| 3)the aliveness & immediacy |
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Moving away from the audience on a proscenium stage would be...
1)moving upstage
2)moving downstage
3)crossing downstage
4)controlling the action
5)none of the above |
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"Outlined in tape on the rehearsal hall floor so the actors can visualize the environment in rehearsals"
1)the prompt book
2)the ground plan
3)the blue print
4)the stage business |
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If you wanted to hide the instruments above the stage in a proscenium house, you would use...
1)glow tape
2)spick marks
3)teasers
4)wings
5)legs |
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To remove something from the stage, you would _____ the object.
1)leg
2)place
3)strike
4)mark
5)wing it |
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To create the illusion of 'spackled light' or light filtering through trees, one would use...
1)grid
2)glow tape
3)mock up
4)gobo
5)gel |
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A 'technical' rehearsal without actors is called...
1)calling the show
2)dry tech
3)ten out of twelve
4)call back
5)sides |
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If an actor forgets his line during performance this is called
1)sides
2)call back
3)warming up
4)line
5)none of the above |
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| 5)none of the above; its called go up |
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The grid
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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Quick Change
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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'the spine'
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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records stage business
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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gobo
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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gel
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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warm up
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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calling the show
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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"Line!" (who says this)
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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collaborative approach
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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casting decisions
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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rehearsal schedule
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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records blocking
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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places! (who says this)
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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go up
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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fitting
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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mock up
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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preplanned movements technique/making a picture
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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'special'
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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a technical rehearsal is not their time
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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agent
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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equity day-off
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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'sides'-who chooses what they are?
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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chooses the script
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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has become a major force in theatre along with the playwright
1)director
2)actor
3)stage manager
4)lighting designer
5)wardrobe |
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