THEATRE TERMS
Small actions used to fill time, create character & sometimes to make action "more" realistic.
What is Stage Business?
NOBOBY GETS HURT!
What is the 1st rule of Stage Combat?
This gives information on the tone & style of a play.
What are Costumes?
Author of Cyrano de Bergerac.
Who is Edmond Rostand?
Actors develop characters from inside-out to create more of a "true or real" performance.
What is the Stanislavski Technique?
a long speech said by a single actor to themselves, the audience, or to another character.
What is a Monologue?
A defensive action which blocks or deflects an attack.
What is a Parry?
This person normally creates a different rendering for each costume.
What is a Costume Designer?
Author of Great Expectations.
Who is Charles Dickens?
Also Called Collaborative creation....form of Theatre where script originates not from a writer but from collaborative usually improvisational from actors
What is Devised Theatre?
A story or action performed without words relying on body language.
What is a Pantomime?
A written account of each step of a fight
What is a Combat Map?
This person plans and provides sound effects in a play
What is the Sound Designer?
Author of Three Sisters.
Who is Anton Checkov?
Involves 3 main components that work hand in hand: emotional preparation, repetition, & improvisation.
What is the Meisner Technique?
The last words or actions indicating the time for another actor to speak or move.
What is a cue?
A movement of the body and/or feet in order to dodge an attack.
What is avoidance?
Usually thought of as a bird's eye view of the stage; It aids the designer in developing scenic design & is used by the director for establishing the flow of the action
What is a Ground Plan?
Runs the rehearsal & gives the actors instructions for blocking & Acting
Who is the Director?
Tempo, duration, repetition, kinesthetic response, shape, spatial relationship, gesture,, architecture & topography.
What are Anne Bogart's Nine Viewpoints?
The who, what, when, where, why of the play, scene or character.
What is given circumstances?
Literally meaning "body-to-body
What is Corps-a-Corps?
This suggests the style/tone of whole production/creates mood & atmosphere & gives clues for specific time/place of action & offers creative possibilities for the movement & grouping of actors.
What is a Theatre Set?
Choses the creative vision & helps steers all components of the production.
Who is the director?
Running, Back & Blanket.
What are 3 stiches used in making costumes for Theatre.