The Basics
How Many Areas of the Stage are there?
What is 9?
The way/direction an Actor faces on stage.
What is Body Positions?
A Raised Platform on which actors, entertainers, and speaker perform on
What is a Stage?
A small tool used to push through fabric and pull a thread through a small hole to connect 2 pieces of fabric together.
What is a Needle?
A Long type of dramatic speech given by 1 actor/character who is alone on stage.
What is Monologue?
Stage Directions are always Given from the ______________ point of view.
What is The Actors?
How many Body Positions are there?
What is 8?
A Square-ish room with black walls, ceiling, and floor, designed to be a flexible & intimate performance space
What is Black Box?
Used as a decorative stitch or for seams. Stitching is easy but not very strong. Stitches should be small and even. Stitches do not touch there is a gap between each one.
What is a Running Stitch?
Pauses that happen throughout the monologue to help signal a change.
- a change can be anything from a change in EMOTION to a change in THOUGHTS or FEELINGS.
What is Beats?
The Physical Place, the BUILDING that you go to in order to watch a Performance.
What is TheatER?
The Body Position where the actor is facing the audience and 100% of their face can be seen.
What is Full Front?
A Stage with the audience sitting on 3 sides of the stage.
What is Thrust Stage?
These are the ____________________.:
#1 The Point: The end of the needle that is sharp and used to puncture the fabric
#2 The Shaft: The Middle of needle that is used to hold on to while sewing; It is in between the The Point and The Eye
#3 The Eye: This is the place the thread goes through to sew fabric together.
What is 3 Parts of a Needle?
The Characters Motivation. They thing they want more than anything else in the world. What they are working for/trying to accomplish.
What is Super Objective?
Written Directions that indicate where the actor should move and what they should be doing.
What is Stage Directions?
The Actor is facing 100% away from the Audience.
What is Full Back?
A Stereotypical stage that has an archway that breaks the stage up into 2 sections:
- Behind the Arch: The Stage
-In Front of the Arch: The Apron & Audience
What is Proscenium?
Strong hand stitch for holding seams together and inserting zippers by hand. Stitches overlap on the back. Stitches should be touching one another.
What is a Back Stitch?
Steps taken by the character to meet their objective. AKA what you PHYSICALLY DO to try and get what you want
What is Tactics?
The Art form that one Practices, it is a purposeful LIVE PERFORMANCE done for a LIVE AUDIENCE.
What is TheatRE?
These stage Directions are to the actors right and left.
What is Stage Right and Stage Left?
The Audience sits on all 4 sides of these stages.
What is Arena Stage and Theatre in the Round?
the template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric before being cut out and assembled. Patterns are usually made of paper
What is Sewing Pattern?
Wrote Shows Like Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, And Taming of the Shrew.
What is William Shakespeare?