Sets
Several scenic units that can be moved and turned on the stage to create several settings
What is a Unit Set
Actors strike
What is Actors Equity Association
Readings before a director to determine casting of a play.
What is Auditions
Presentations dealt with biblical events and parables (A simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson)
What is Middle Ages?
The oldest type of stage
What is Arena Stage?
Triangular pieces of scenery that can be rotated to show different scenes
What is a Periaktoi / Prism set
First songs published on Tin Pan Alley
Who is George M. Cohan
Person responsible for the physical set up, actors, and technical cues of a production as it is performed
What is Stage Manager
habitual greed or excess in eating.
What is Gluttony?
Flexible Stage
What is Environmental Stage?
A sketch of what the set will look like from the audience’s point of view.
What is RENDERINGS / PERSPECTIVES
the total set of environmental and situational conditions which influence the actions that a character in a drama undertakes
What is Given Circumstances
Where the play occurs in terms of time and place.
What is Setting?
the tragic flaw that eventually leads to his downfall; often this leads to a mistake in judgment.
What is Hamartia
historical characters interacting in a scenically romantic distant locale (affection, sorrow, and romantic longing)
What is Quasi
Audience sits in front of the stage
What is Proscenium Arch
EENY, MEENY, MINY, MO
What is Songs from Minstrel Shows
A long speech said by a single actor to themselves or the audience, but not to another character.
What is Soliloquy?
a reversal of fortune brought about by the hero’s tragic flaw; this is often also influenced by “fate” or the gods.
What is Peripeteia
picturesque, romanticized view of the past, mystery, superstition
What is Lure of the Exotic
Audience all around the stage
What is Arena stage / In the round
1.Silent Act | 2.Singing Sisters or Dancing Brothers | 3.Skit or one-act play | 4.Novelty Act | 5.Rising Star | 6.“Big Act” 7.Next to Closing | 8.Short Film
What is Vaudeville Order
The area of the stage that is the closest to the audience
What is Downstage?
His actions result in an increase of self- awareness and self-knowledge…though he may not choose to act on this
What is Characteristics of a Tragic Hero?
free from convention and tyranny, the Democratic spirit
What is Libertarianism?