Theater Business pt.1
A poster or piece of paper advertising a play, and usually announcing the cast.
What is PLAYBILL
A practice or trial performance of a play.
What is Rehearsal
The sequence of events.
What is Plot
The problem or struggle that needs to be resolved.
What is conflict
Sudden cutoff of all stage lights in a theater to show the passage of time or to mark the end of an act or scene.
What is Blackout
Whether or not an actor is reading or working from memory.
What is on book/off book
An invitation to return for a second audition or interview.
What is Callback
A subordinate plot in a play.
What is Sub plot
The solution to the conflict and conclusion of the plot.
What is resolution
To remove a set piece from the stage.
What is strike
A test performance to evaluate a performer's abilities.
What is AUDITION
The social code of behavior of an audience during a show.
What is theater Etiquette
Method of presenting a play or other dramatic performance.
What is staging
A humorous interlude in a tragedy intended to relieve tension.
What is Comic Relief
A percentage of the income from a book, script, piece of music, or invention that is paid to the author, playwright, composer, or invention.
What is Royalties
Reading a script for the first time without having seen it before.
What is Cold reading
Suspend one's critical faculties and believe the unbelievable; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment.
What is Suspension of Disbelief
An illusion created for movies and television by props, camerawork, computer graphics, etc.
What is Special Effects
A visually striking performance or display.
What is spectacle