Communication
Body language, facial expressions, and tone are all examples of this.
What is non-verbal communication?
The person setting the boundary establishes how much access others have to their body and personal space.
The ancient Greek term for measured time
What is Chronos?
This is where you would find the PSM during tech (physically).
Where is the Tech Table? (Or House)
An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
What is a Labor Union?
This is defined as the unconscious and habitual ways in which each person has learned to express themselves.
What are communication defaults?
Personal determination by the individual setting the boundary of how and when others have access to their feelings and emotions.
What is an Emotional Boundary
The ancient Greek term for unmeasured time.
What is Kairos?
A piece of paperwork developed by the ASM that indicates the backstage tracks of the run crew.
What is a Run Sheet? (Or shift plot)
A period of time when an organized group of employees of a company stops working because of an argument over pay or conditions.
What is a strike?
"I observed ____, and based on that, I recommend ____" is an example of this.
What is feedback?
Setting clear markers for when an activity begins and ends.
What is a Time Boundary?
Shifting between parts of a rehearsal day or changing between segments of a production are examples of ________.
What are transitions?
A meeting during pre-tech that the Stage Manager, Director, and Designers have where they go through the script page by page and discuss each cue, change, or sequence they plan to have.
What is Paper Tech?
The process in which working people, through their unions, negotiate contracts with their employers to determine their terms of employment, including pay, benefits, hours, leave, job health and safety, etc.
What is Collective Bargaining?
List the 4 different types of communication styles (per our self-assessments)
What is "What, How, Why, & Who"? (Or Action, Process, Idea, People)
Establishing words and other spoken/written expression that collaborators agree will not be used. Creating a specific lexicon that relates to the production can be useful.
What is a Language Boundary?
Being aware of the different _________ in a room can help clue a stage manager in on the group dynamics.
What are relationships?
This typically happens on the first day of tech, during which the actors get to try everything in the theater for the first time and blocking is often adjusted.
What is "Spacing"?
Dealing with contracts, payroll, and building maintenance are all NOT apart of a stage manager's job under this type of contract.
What is a LORT contract?
"Let's run through all the transitions before we start dress rehearsal. How does that work for you?" is an example of this kind of question.
What is a directly-framed question?
These boundaries are aware of your emotional, mental, and physical capacities and are communicated clearly.
What are Healthy Boundaries?
What are the three main examples of things that may require orchestration?
What are Time, Transitions, and Relationships?
Name 3 responsibilities of a PSM during Tech.
Acceptable answers: Cueing, Calling sequences, Running the room, Calling breaks, Determining solutions to problems that arise, Balancing the needs of the people in the room, Communicating with the Director and Designers, Communicating with the ASMs and PAs about backstage, Running production meetings at the end of the night
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