The Stage
Stage known for having a "fourth wall" and picture frame.
What is Proscenium
Long curtains that are short and hang the width of the stage (conceal lights and setting).
What are border or teaser curtains.
The sides of a proscenium stage that serves as a holding area for actors, scenic pieces, stage management and quick changes.
What are wings.
The action of using someone or something as a model to simulate or copy.
What is imitation
Three Realist Playwrights that wrote plays based off of middle class and everyday people. These plays forced the art of Acting to change.
Who are: Ibsen, Chekov, and Strindburg
Oldest type of stage or staging, in the round or circle.
What is Arena
Long, vertical curtains that hang stage right and left. Used to make the stage opening smaller and to mask backstage.
What are legs or tormentors.
When you are at the back of the stage, you are where?
What is Upstage.
What term describe Social and Personal Acting in daily life?
What is Role Playing
An innate trait that cannot be taught in acting?
What is charisma
Stage that combines the Proscenium and the Arena with a stage that extends into the audience.
Thrust Stage
Term used to define the stage floor, divided into 9 or 12 invisible squares. Squares help to identify the area of stage.
What or blocks or blocking.
A student, a clerk or a policeman is what type of acting in life?
What is Social Role Playing
When you are at an audition and asked to read from a script that you've never seen.
What is a Cold Reading.
He is credited with developing techniques for performers that aided them in creating realistic and natural character.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavski
Stage that is also referred to as a Black Box and can be re-arranged to create several different staging options.
What is Multi-Purpose Theatre
When the stage floor is higher in the back (by the back wall of the theatre) and lower in the front (by the audience).
What is a raked stage.
When you are in the audience looking at the stage, the stage side to the right is called?
What is Stage Left
The all encompassing goal of a character throughout a play
What is the Super Objective
Famous collaborative duo at the Moscow Art Theatre. Playwright and Director.
Stanislavski and Chekov
Large stage used for Broadway musicals. This stage has dominated the West for the last 300 years.
What is Proscenium
The forestage of a stage. Some prosceniums have them and some do not have them.
What is an apron.
When an actor is invited to a second audition after the first round of auditions.
What is a Call Back
Bringing forth a memory to help achieve a physical or mental response in acting
What is Emotional Recall
Method acting was developed from Stanislavski's techniques in which country?
What is the United States