The Phases
What is the first phase of directing?
What is choosing a play?
Who is the director's second in command?
What is the stage manager?
What is an audition?
When actors come to perform for a director who then determines whether or not they can be cast in the show.
Artistic idea that a director attaches to a play
What is the concept?
An overall image or metaphor of a play.
What is a directorial concept?
What is one characteristic of a theatre director?
What is creativity?
What is the third phase of directing?
What is casting?
What is the director's mental image of what they want to do with a play script is called?
What is a vision?
What are "sides?"
Small pieces of the script used to audition actors.
The standard tool for casting a play.
What is an audition?
A traditional director begins with a close examination of the...
What is the text?
What is one leadership characteristic of being a theatre director?
What is self motivation/motivation?
What is the second phase of directing?
What are Auditions?
What is "gender blind" or "gender neutral" casting?
When you can cast an actor of any gender to play a character.
What is "dress rehearsal?"
Rehearsal where all actors are in costume.
Person who works with the director to organize blocking and notes, and handles all practical problems of director
What is a stage manager?
The pattern and arrangement of performers’ movements onstage
What is blocking?
What is one business characteristic of being a theatre director?
What are good negotiation skills and being able to risk take?
What is the fourth phase of directing?
What are Call Backs?
What is one thing that is very often required at an audition?
A monologue, a song (for a musical audition), or a cold reading.
What is "tech week?"
The final week of rehearsal where technology (lights, sound, etc) come into play.
The booklet in which the director keeps the play text, drawing of sets, ground plans, stage directions, and various production notes.
What is a prompt-book?
The director gives shape and structure to the play in two dimensions
What is space and time?
What is one organizational skill of a theatre director?
What is being neat and organized?
What is the final phase of directing?
What is Rehearsal?
When is the director's job done?
When the play is over and everything is moved out (this process is called "strike").
What is one thing an actor can do while they wait for their scene during a rehearsal?
Study lines, rehearse their scene elsewhere, enjoy the scene onstage (there are lots of options! Mostly, just don't be disruptive)
Anything which prompts an actor to move or speak
What is a cue?
A rehearsal in which the performers go through the entire text of the play in the order it is to be performed.
What is a read-through?
What is one management skill of a theatre director?
What is time management, making sure plays are on time?