The people of the Theatre
Who is the person in charge of the entire production who oversees the entire process?
What is the director?
This is Mrs. B's biggest pet peeve on the stage
What is standing in a straight line OR back to the audience?
This is the biggest rule that means agreeing and continuing the conversation.
What is Yes and?
You forget your line on stage. What should you do?
What is improvise?
Ancient Greek Theatre used this group of people to help narrate the scenes.
What is the chorus?
This person creates and teaches the dances for the production
Who is the choreographer?
How high or low you stand. This is good!
What are levels and are they good in theatre?
Your partner is always...
What is right?
Who is Konstantin Stanislavski?
The Globe Theatre was the stage in which this person performed his plays.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This person designs the sets
Who is the set designer?
The person who is speaking should cross behind the other person they are talking to. True or False?
What is false? They should cross in front.
True or False: You have to be funny in order to be good at improv.
What is false?
These two foundational elements were a huge part of Stanislavski's system that helped combat stage fright, and look comfortable and relaxed on stage
Hamlet, MacBeth and Romeo and Juliet all fall under the genre of... and were written by...
What is tragedy and William Shakespeare?
This person creates the plan for how the lights and sound are going to be used in the production
Who is the technical director?
This type of stage is the most difficult to perform on because you have to move around in a circle in order to be seen.
What is arena stage?
True or false: Your scene partner says there is an elephant chasing you. What should you do?
What is run?
Laughing at an inappropriate time, changing your accent, whispering "what's my line?", waving to the audience are all examples of...
What is breaking character?
These people were not allowed to be in Ancient Greek/Renaissance plays because it was seen as scandalous and immoral.
Who are women?
This person acts as a right hand man to the director, makes sure everything is running smoothly and everything is on time.
Who is the Stage Manager?
When you move backwards while talking to someone so that they have to turn their back to the audience. This is a DON'T
What is upstaging?
This group originated in Italy during the renaissance and brought improvised scenes to the streets.
What is Commeddia Del'Arte?
This is the Who, What, Where, When and Why of the play.
What are Given Circumstances?
What is the skene?