Casting
Early Rehearsals
Staging
Problem Solving
Final Stages
100
When a director has to describe the characters in adjectival terms rather by action or example.
What is a casting breakdown?
100
Black Ice
What new play is coming to Theatre at Berks in the fall?
100
The pattern of movements given to an actor.
What is blocking?
100
The consequences for each character of achieving or failing to achieve a superobjective.
What are stakes?
100
Prepared, steady, and patient.
What are some skills to have to help with tech rehearsals?
200
Casting a person in a role without considering their ethnicity.
What is color-blind/nontraditional casting?
200
The Glass Menagerie
What play is mention in the chapter?
200
When the audience is on all four sides of the stage.
What is a thrust?
200
Two sources of energy are
What are first-time experiences and making discoveries?
200
Paper tech.
What is the first thing necessary for final stages?
300
The “mix-and-match” of actors in order to experiment with relationships to explore different dynamics.
What is casting for relationships?
300
Beats
What is an important aspect of early rehearsals, Beats, tempo or great actors?
300
These are more dynamic than straight lines.
What are diagonals?
300
All rehearsal is a form of
What is Improvisation?
300
The storytelling. Style. Dead air. The rhythms.
What does tech reinforce? Refine? Eliminate? And sharpen?
400
The process in which an actor “tries out” for a role.
What are auditions?
400
What a character eats.
What details would have no bearing on a play? (A character's name or something a character eats)
400
Loose and precise.
What are types of blocking?
400
The three levels that a good production operates on are...
What are text, subtext, and actor interplay?
400
Uncertainty.
What can a rocky run-through produce to the actors and crew?
500
The person who sets up auditions and recommends actors.
What is a casting director?
500
Business
What are rehearsals more than: fun, help, or business?
500
When an actor is unsure of what they are doing with their movement.
What is wandering?
500
A good way to bring out different sides of a behavior
What is "playing opposites"?
500
to cut one's losses
What is the dark secret of directing?
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