types of theatre.
Audience on four sides
What is Arena Theatre
This playwright wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet.
Who is Shakespeare?
To adapt a score for orchestral use.
What is ARRANGE?
A short curtain that hides the lights and can vary the height of the stage.
What is the teaser curtain?
Metal flaps mounted in front of a lighting instrument that control the spread of the light beam.
What are barn doors?
a tragedy. involving star crossed lovers.
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What is Romeo and Juilet
is considered one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century. His best-known plays include 'All My Sons,' 'The Crucible' and the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Death of a Salesman.
Who is Arthur Miller
Someone who helps with the manager and helps backstage.
Who is Assistant Stage Manager?
A narrow, tall curtain that hides the backstage from the audience's view.
What is the Tormenter/Leg?
A device that controls the intensity of light by throttling the electric current flowing to the lamp.
What is a dimmer?
A dance in which the dancers communicate a storyline or mood to the audience.
What is ballet?
first play was Eleutheria and involved a young man's efforts to cut himself loose from his family and social obligations.
Who is Samuel Beckett
The term given to the industry-standard CAD (Computer Assisted Design) software program for architects and designers. WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
what is a AUTOCAD
A large curtain hung at the back of the stage; it can be black, white, neutral, or be painted to be part of the scenery like sky or forest?
What is cyclorama (CYC)?
Lamps that generate light by activating a gas-filled tube to give off ultraviolet radiation, which lights up the phosphorous coating inside the tube.
What is a fluorescent?
In this play, the ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son to avenge his murder by killing the new king, his uncle.
What is the name of this play?
Who is Hamlet?
Wrote Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and Cherry Orchard
Who is Anton Chekhov
An acting role that enhances the main character.
What is a foil?
A diagram showing the placement of the lighting instruments.
What is light plot?
A lighting instrument capable of picking up or following a person moving on the stage, with a beam strong enough to stand out against the normal stage lighting
What is a follow spot?
Portable stages wheeled through crowd. Like a parade float
What is a Pageant Wagon
A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose works include 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. '
Who is Tennessee Williams
The panel that holds the memory switches and breakers.
What is a switchboard?
In some theaters, a separate space where props are constructed or stored
What is prop shop?
A popularization of the original term cucoloris, Any pattern cut out of thin metal that, placed inside or in front of an ellipsoidal spotlight (pattern projector), produces a shadow pattern. Also called gobo.
What is a cookie