Lorraine Hansberry
The title of her most famous play
What is A Raisin In The Sun
Understanding your characters Backgrounds and motivations.
What is character development
Trying out for a role
What is the main point of an audition for actors
Clearing the Isles and making sure that no hazards are happening on stage.
what is a rule of safety in theatre
A solo Piece that is longer than one minute in length
what is a monolouge
The first African American Playwirght
Who is Lorraine Hansberry
Why the character acts the specific way and do specific things.
What is Characters Motivation.
Stretching, Preparing our vocies and mind are all apart of what technique?
What Are Warm ups
This is a signal to let actors and technicains know that something needs to be happening on stage
What is a cue
A background character usually singing underneath songs, or plays extras
What is an ensamble member
Lorraine play highlighted these 2 subjects
What is racism and discrimination
This is the term that you would use to gain information about the character, find out their motivations and explains behavior
What is Background
Distracting others by being on a cell phone, eating loudly and talking are things that are not in good practice of. c
What is Audience ettiqute.
The first technical rehearsal with no acting happening.
What is a cue to cue
Using your voice clearly so you do not have to use a microphone.
What is projection
True or False: Lorraine and her family brought what they were fighting against all the way to the supreme court
True
This is what you call a Character who changes the story
What is a dynamic character
An impromtu scene without any dialouge or script
What is improv
This rehearsal usually happens with a live orchestra. Overall, this rehearsal is the first time the cast will perform music from a musical all together.
What is a sitz probe
A signal To actors that something about to happen.
What is A cue
Lorraines Fathers occupation
What is a salesman/ Civil Rights Activitst.
One actor can really tell the difference between these 2 things when watching a show. One has motivation, background knowledge and keep you on edge, while the other is just reading whats on the page.
What is the difference between playing a role and being a character.
This is used to gain information about auditioners. Diretors look for big movements and sudden changes to help make their decsion about casting with these.
What are cold reads
A hand held object that can fit in the palm of your hand
what is a prop
Movement on stage that is communicated to the actors from the director.
What is blocking