Stage Directions
When an actor moves closer to the audience, they move ______.
What is downstage
his ancient civilization is often credited with creating Western theatre through festivals honoring Dionysus.
What is Ancient Greece?
This person is responsible for calling cues and coordinating everything that happens during a performance.
Who is the Stage Manager?
What are Lighting, Sound, and Scenery (Set Design)?
Who is the Director?
This is the process where actors perform readings, songs, or monologues to be considered for roles in a production.
What is an Audition?
The side of the stage on an actor's left when facing the audience.
What is Stage Left
hese two types of plays were the most important dramatic forms in ancient Greek theatre.
What are tragedy and comedy?
The equipment used to raise and lower scenery, curtains, and lighting above the stage.
What is the Fly System?
This theatre professional researches the script's historical, social, and cultural background for the production team.
Who is the Dramaturg?
The first rehearsal where the cast reads through the entire script together is called this.
What is a Read-Through (or Table Read)?
The area offstage where actors wait to enter.
What is The wings
This famous playwright wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Furniture, handheld objects, and other items used by actors during a performance are collectively called these.
What are Props?
This designer creates and coordinates the clothing worn by actors on stage.
Who is the Costume Designer?
After auditions, the director assigns actors to specific roles during this step of the production process.
What is Casting?
This term describes movement from one position on stage to another.
What is a Cross
: This Russian theatre practitioner developed a system of actor training that emphasizes objectives, motivation, and emotional truth.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavski?
Name the three major areas of technical theatre most responsible for what the audience sees and hears during a production.
What are Lighting, Sound, and Scenery (Set Design)?
This person is responsible for finding, organizing, and maintaining all props used in a production.
Who is the Props Master (or Props Designer)?
he rehearsal period when all technical elements such as lights, sound, scenery, and costumes are integrated into the show.
What is Technical Rehearsal (Tech Week)
A director's plan for where actors move and stand during a performance.
What is Blocking
This Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the story of an American Founding Father using hip-hop, R&B, and rap music.
What is Hamilton?
The written instruction that tells a technician exactly when to execute a lighting, sound, or scenery change.
What is a Cue?
This backstage leader runs rehearsals when the director is absent, calls cues during performances, and maintains the production after opening night.
Who is the Stage Manager?
The final rehearsal before opening night, performed exactly as the audience will see it.
What is a Dress Rehearsal?