Intro to Theatre
This is the name of the proscenium theatre space on RCC campus
What is The Landis Performing Arts Center?
The type of theatre space that has seating on three sides
What is a thrust theatre?
True or False? Stanislavski created "Method Acting"
What is False?
Things that a director are responsible for.
What is the overall unity of a production and for coordinating the work of contributing artists?
The rope system of a theatre space
What is a fly loft
A musical. Realism or Non-realism?
What is Non-realism
The type of theatre space that only has one side for the audience.
What is a proscenium theatre
This is why actors study their voice and movement
What is to experience the sensation of tension and relaxation in tandem?
The pattern of movement given to the actors from the director.
What is blocking?
In a proscenium space, this is the name of the off stage area.
What is the wings?
A physical or emotional preparation that the audience undergoes usually at the beginning of the play
What is psychological priming?
The type of theatre space that has the audience on all four sides.
What is a theatre in the round? (I will also accept the arena theatre)
These are two types of daily acting
What is imitation and role playing?
The director’s vision, or a point of view that the director wants to highlight that is appropriate to the play.
What is A Directorial Concept?
This is the large white backdrop, sometimes even painted on the back wall.
What is a cyclorama? Or a Cyc?
A Streetcar Named Desire. Realism or Non-realism?
What is Heightened Realism? TRICK QUESTION.
They had this type of theatre space in Ancient Greece.
What is an amphitheatre?
This is the first element of the Stanislavski System.
What is Concentration?
This type of director may manipulate the original script to fit their concept or vision.
What is an Auteur Director?
When you shine light on this from the front it becomes opaque, but if you shine light from behind it becomes translucent.
What is a scrim
This concept is a psychological distance between the actors and the audience
What is aesthetic distance, or the "fourth wall."
This is where the audience sits during the show.
What is the Stage House? (Or House)
These are the six Stanislavski Elements given in class.
What is relaxation, concentration, given circumstances, magic if, objective, action or psychological action
These are two examples of how a Post-Modern Director may "Deconstruct" a piece.
1.Color-blind casting/cross-gender casting?
2. Integration of video, dance, or multi-media projections?
These are usually present in a thrust stage, another entrance for actors and props.
What are the vomitoriums