Stage Types
Q's
Location, Location, Location
Getting the Role
Grab Bag
100
When the audience views the action through a type of frame; "before the scenery"
What is Proscenium Stage?
100
generally labeled by number this changes for setting, mood, time, and to end a scene or act.
What is a lighting cue?
100
The area of the stage in front of the curtain before the audience
What is the apron?
100
a process that perspective actors go through in order to obtain a role, can be done in many manners, usually includes a monologue
What is an audition?
100
the dialogue (libretto) of a musical; the script
What is a Book?
200
A stage in which the audience sits on three sides
What is Thrust
200
generally labeled by letter this can start/end a scene, aid a transition, and can be given by the orchestra or audio system
What is a sound cue?
200
Any area not scene by the audience, where scenery/actors can be held, where changes occur, and other off stage activities.
What is Backstage?
200
when the director ask specific auditionees to return for a second try-out, often includes cold readings
What is a callback?
200
area where the audience is seated
What is the House?
300
an open acting arena, usually reminiscent of elizabethan acting troupe's, the audience is on all four sides of the stage
What is Theatre in the Round
300
a paper which the designers puts their cues on
What is cue sheet?
300
place where tickets can be purchased, and patrons can recieve information about the venue/show.
What is a Box Office?
300
when theactors perform a piece without having previously prepared
What is a cold-reading?
300
someone backstage who is following the script and can cue a forgotten line
What is a Prompter?
400
a square acting space that can be used to create different theatre spaces
What is a Black Box?
400
the form which the stage manager calls cues from includes lighting, sound, and fly.
What is a Master cue sheet
400
An area where actors can be held waiting to go on, that is typically closer than the dressing rooms.
What is the Green Room?
400
The process of choosing performs to play specific roles
What is Casting?
400
a guaze or net curtain that becomes transparrent when lit from behind
What is a Scrim?
500
location where a stage if created from what the company finds, such as the Shakespeare Tavern.
What is a Found Space?
500
that which signals and entrance, exit, start/end of sound or light, as well as set/actor movement
What is a cue?
500
Space at the sides of the stage from which entrances/exits occur and scenery is brought on
What is the wings?
500
any performers, crew, stage hands, etc. who work on a certain show
What is a Company?
500
when the set is taken down, costumes/props put in storage, and the stage cleared for the next production.
What is Strike?
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