Theatre Spaces
The Actor
The Actor Cont.
The Director
The Director Cont.
100
They most common type of space in which an arch or frame surrounding the stage opening in a box or picture stage.
What is a proscenium?
100
Two examples of acting in daily life.
What is Imitation and Role Playing?
100
The saying we use to create distance between actors during a scene.
What is Kiss or Kill?
100
The Person responsible for the overall unity of a production and coordinating the work of contributing artists.
What is the director?
100
The precise staging of actors in order to facilitate the performance of a play.
What is blocking?
200
A stage entirely surrounded by the audience; also known as "theatre in the round."
What is an Arena?
200
To simulate or copy behavior observed in real life.
What is Imitation?
200
How do I get it?
What is Action?
200
Attempts to put on stage exact copies of everyday life; sometimes also called "slice of life."
What is Naturalism?
200
Rehearsals where costumes and make-up are added to the production?
What is Dress Rehearsal?
300
Stage space that goes into the audience space; a stage surrounded on three sides by audience seating.
What is a Thrust Stage?
300
In everyday life, the acting out of a particular role by copying the expected social behavior of that position.
What is Role Playing?
300
Name the two things that help with Concentration.
What is Same Rhythm, Same Intensity?
300
The style of theatre that is grounded on real life but has elements that may not be real, such as two scenes happening at the same time, wall we can see through, musicals.
What is Heightened Realism?
300
Rehearsals where lights and sound are added to the production.
What is Technical Rehearsals?
400
A theatre space that is open, flexible, and adaptable, usually without fixed seating. Stage-audience configuration can be rearranged to suit the individual requirements of a given production.
What is a Black Box?
400
The father of acting who created the acting system we use today.
Who is Constantin Stanislavski?
400
What do I want?
What is Objective?
400
The style of theatre that is based on imagination, fiction; Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Wicked, The Lion King.
What is Non-Realism?
400
A director who shapes a production to fit his vision which often does not match the writer's. This includes cutting and or pasting the script, having actors perform accordingly to the director's vision, using elements that might not be asked for or necessary for the script. All to fit the vision of the director.
What is an Auteur Director?
500
The convention that the audience is looking into a room through and invisible wall which the actor can sometimes break for comic or dramatic effect.
What is the Fourth Wall?
500
1.Making characters believable-inner truth. 2. Physical acting-the use of the voice and body. 3. Synthesis and integration-combining inner and outer.
What are the Three Challenges of Acting?
500
Stanislavski's element that requires the performer to ask "How would I react IF I were in this character's position?"
What is Magic If?
500
An idea of the directors that serves to play in its truth and meaning that gives a production unity and cohesion. In the best cases these ideas are straightforward and derive from the play itself.
What Directorial Concept?
500
Director who abandons narrative or linear structure, alters, deletes, takes out of context, or reassembles portions of the text. This director also has cross-gender and multi-cultural casting. Their approach to theatre is free-form.
What is Postmodern Director?
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