5 Stages
Period of Preparation
The Function of Each Character
Misc.
100

The first stage of the process.

What is Preparation?

100
The first task in the period of preparation.

What is Initial research?

100

The character that drives a play with ambition. 

What is the Protagonist?

100

Jessie's favorite color. 

What is Pink?

200

The second stage of the process.

What is Rehearsal?

200

The second task in the period of preparation.

What is getting to know the production and associated personnel?

200

The character that acts as an obstacle. 

What is the Antagonist?

200

The type of theatre created from the devised process.

What is Devised theatre?

300

The fifth stage of process

What is Post-Production?

300

The third task in the period of preparation.

What is Information-processing and communicating?

300

Characters that exist to highlight specific aspects of the story. 

What is Secondary characters?

300

A person you should research when doing background research on a play.

What is the Playwright?

400

The third stage of the process.

What is Production?

400

The fourth task in the period of preparation.

What is Preparing for rehearsal?

400

Characters that have a function within the play to thwart or support the protagonist.

What is Other principal characters?

400

The who, when, where in text analysis. 

What is characters, time, and place?

500

The fourth stage of research and preparation. 

What is Performance?

500

All four tasks in the period of preparation. 

What is initial research, getting to know the production, information-processing, and preparing for rehearsal?

500

The characters that act as general tormentors or obstacles. 

What is Crowds and officials?

500

Name all of the technical implications that the stage manager should look out for. 

What is settings, characters, costume, furniture and properties, lighting, sound, and special effects?

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