Etiquette
Basics
Acting
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100
The people who help you find your seat before the show starts.
What is an Usher?
100
The offstage places used for storage and where cast members wait to enter.
What are the Wings?
100
Acting without props.
What is Pantomime?
100
The person who operates a puppet and brings the character to life.
What is a Puppeteer?
100
There is no place like this place.
What is Home?
200
Always turn this off before a show to respect the actors and other audience members.
What is a Cell Phone?
200
The movements and actions given to an actor by the director.
What is Blocking?
200
Acting without preparation or rehearsal.
What is Improvisation?
200
The type of theatre that does not have a linear storyline or normal plot structure.
What is Absurdist Theatre?
200
The time in which we should seize the day.
When is Now?
300
The part of the show where the actors and crew take a brief break. This is the best time for audience members to move or use the restroom.
What is Intermission?
300
The room backstage that serves as a holding room for the actors.
What is the Green Room?
300
A character's main goal or motivation.
What is an Objective?
300
These stories feature characters who are often larger than life and have exaggerated characteristics.
What are Tall Tales?
300
The type of puppet Pinocchio is.
What is a Marionette?
400
The part of the show when the actors bow and the audience applauds their work.
What is the Curtain Call?
400
The type of theatre with audience members on all sides.
What is an Arena Theater or Theatre in the Round?
400
This is what happens right before a scene starts.
What is a Moment Before?
400
How Absurdist plays make the audience members feel. (We used this adjective many times.)
What is Isolated?
400
The musical Mr. Harris' little plant figurine is from.
What is Little Shop of Horror's?
500
This is how a theater signals to the audience that the show is about to start.
What is Dimming the Lights?
500
The type of stage with audience members on one side (the AK stage).
What is a Proscenium Stage?
500
The methods or strategies a character uses to reach their goals.
What are Tactics?
500
The character we studied who lassoed a tornado and has a horse named Widow-Maker.
Who is Pecos Bill?
500
The play that has the creepy old lady rocking in the rocking chair the entire time and she never dies.
What is Rockaby by Samuel Beckett?