WHAT DOES ANYTHING MEAN?
WHICH ACTIVITIES ARE NOT ATTRIBUTED TO THE LIGHTING DESIGNER?:
A. Establish the time of day, location, and emotional tone of a scene.
B. Work with directors, set designers, and architects to match the overall creative vision.
C. Draw light plots, select equipment, and calculate power or energy needs.
D. Create precise sheets or digital cues for when lights fade, snap, or shift during a production.
E. Oversee the hanging, angling, and testing of fixtures during rehearsals.
F. NONE OF THE ABOVE
F. THEY ALL ARE PART OF HIS/HER ROLE.
AN ACTOR IN YOUR CAST INSISTS ON KISSING HIS FEMALE PROTAGONIST ON THE MOUTH FOR AUTHENTIC REALISM EVEN THOUGH SHE HAS ASKED HIM NOT TO... IN RESPONSE HE CLAIMS ARTISTIC FREEDOM...
FIRED OR HIRED? AND WHY?
Harassment and Abuse: Verbal abuse, bullying actors, or any form of sexual harassment will impact the harmony and trust within your production team.
This term describes the precise staging and movement of actors on a stage during a production.
What is blocking?
This indispensable assistant to the director manages the daily operations, rehearsal schedules, and prompt book.
Who is the stage manager?
HAROLD CLURMAN SAID...
That action speaks louder than words is the first principle of the stage; the director, I repeat, is the ‘author’ of the stage action-gestures and movements, which are the visible manifestations of action, have a different specific gravity from the writer’s disembodied ideas...
WHAT IS HE TRYING TO SAY?
In short, it means a script is just a blueprint, but the director and the actors' physical movements are what actually create the living art of theater.
SCRIPT ANALYSIS IS NOT PART OF THE DUTIES OF A DESIGN TEAM IN A THEATRE PRODUCTION...
TRUE OR FALSE?
FALSE.
"AS A DIRECTOR, I HIRE THE RIGHT TEAM AND GET OUT OF THEIR WAY..."
FIRED OR HIRED?
When Denzel Washington said he shares his vision and gets out of the way, he meant that good directing is about empowering talented people rather than micromanaging them.
As a director (of films like Fences, The Great Debaters, and A Journal for Jordan), Washington views his role as a guide who sets the ultimate goal, hires the right team, and then trusts them to do their jobs.
This overhead mechanical drawing of the set design helps the director visualize spatial relationships and plan actor movement.
What is a ground plan?
" Even uninformed directorial choices create meaning..."
What does this mean?
This quote means that in film or theater, everything the audience sees and hears creates meaning—even if the director didn't intend it.
Because the camera or stage captures every single detail, nothing is completely neutral. If a director makes a lazy, accidental, or "uninformed" choice, the audience will still interpret it as a deliberate part of the story.
A DIRECTOR CHOOSES TO ENGAGE IN "...Changing dialogue, cutting scenes, reordering songs, or swapping the genders of characters..." OF A PRODUCED PLAY, CLAIMING ARTISTIC FREEDOM...
FIRED OR HIRED AND WHY?
If a licensing representative or playwright finds out about unauthorized changes, they can pull the performance rights entirely, shutting down the show. Directors who put a theatre at risk of legal action are fired immediately.
This overarching creative idea or metaphor chosen by a director gives a unified artistic vision to a specific script.
What is a production concept?
"The stage in whatever form is a site of meaning creation..."
What does this mean?
WHICH DUTIES DO NOT CORRESPOND TO THE DUTIES OF A SOUND DESIGNER IN A THEATRE PRODUCTION?
A. Creating Soundscapes & Effects: Designing environment-defining sounds like weather, traffic, footsteps, or abstract emotional textures.
B. Music Selection & Composition: Choosing, editing, or mixing pre-recorded tracks, or collaborating with a composer for original scores.
C. Audio Reinforcement: Planning microphone placement (wireless/lavalier mics) and speaker setups so actors and musicians are heard clearly.
D. Collaboration: Working closely with the director, stage crew, and other designers during rehearsals and tech runs to time every audio cue.
E. Training performance animals to provide animal sounds for ambience.
E. Training performance animals to provide animal sounds for ambience.
No, a theatre sound designer would not train live performance animals to provide ambient sounds. Instead, sound designers use recorded sound effects, digital playback systems, and synthesis to create realistic or stylized environmental audio.
"AS A DIRECTOR, I BELIEVE MY VISION AS A DIRECTOR IS ABSOLUTE... BOTH THE DESIGN AND TECHNICAL TEAMS SHOULD KNOW THEIR PLACE, WHICH IS TO REALISE MY VISION."
FIRED OR HIRED?
IN MOST PRODUCTION TEAMS THIS APPROACH IS NOT WELCOMED... BUT IT IS SOMETIMES SEEN IN PRODUCTIONS WHERE THE DIRECTOR IS BOTH THE PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR. USUALLY, THE TEAM TRUSTS THIS APPROACH BASED ON THE PREVIOUS WORK OF THE PRACTITIONER.
Unlike a technical director who focuses on logistics, this type of director works intensely and collaboratively on character performance and emotional depth.
What is an actor's director?