Rehearsal
Typically the last rehearsal before an audience arrives, run as if it were a performance.
What is a dress rehearsal?
A type of set design that is created with traditional building materials, such as wood, metal, etc.
What is hard?
A kind of comedy that focuses on physical humor and violence.
What is slapstick?
A style of theatre, usually done in the proscenium, in which there is extreme attention to detail and accuracy, and in which characters act as if they are unaware of the audience.
What is realism?
This seemingly nonsensical art and theatre style worked under the belief that the world is completely insane and thus art should reflect this.
What is dadaism?
A curtain that can be open and closed.
What is a traveller?
A rehearsal that does not focus on the actors but rather on the crew.
What is a technical rehearsal?
Used in designing soft sets.
What are fabrics?
A kind of drama that focuses on strict realism, based on historical fact.
A style of theatre (and art) wherein things become realer-than-real, including the the dark and unsavory parts of life and even including completely irrelevant aspects in its pursuit of realism.
In this style of theatre (and art), life has lost all reason and is likened to being in a waiting room that has no inner office.
What is absurdism?
An area under the stage traditionally accessed by a trapdoor and often representing places like hell.
A kind of rehearsing that usually happens at the very beginning of the process, in which actors and director focus on the text without moving around the set.
What is table work?
A kind of scenery on wheels for easy maneuverability.
What are wagons? (What is wagon scenery?)
Sensational drama with over the top characters and situations designed to manipulate the audience's emotions.
What is melodrama?
A style of theatre (and art) where the hero strives for a higher truth through art and emotion, pursuing spiritual happiness.
What is romanticism?
In this style, life is seen through a single set of subjective emotions and characters are generally representative of a type of person, rather than an individual.
What is expressionism?
Long bars that hang above the stage, used for holding scenery, lights, and other equpiement.
What are flybars?
Actors are considered this once they have memorized all of their lines.
What is offbook?
A section of flooring that can rise or drop in order to create levels.
What is an elevator stage?
A kind of comedy that satirizes social behavior of a specific class, usually the upper class.
What is comedy of manners?
A dreamlike, poetic style of theatre that focuses on mood and atmosphere, as well as the inner life of the artist.
What is symbolism?
A style of theatre designed to make the audience think and act and to never forget that they are watching a performance.
What is didacticism?
These curtains are placed around the edges of a proscenium stage in order to block the view of the backstage from the audience.
What are legs?
During the rehearsal process, a director needs to keep these in mind, to be sure that audiences can see everything necessary on stage and not into the backstage.
What are sightlines?
A kind of set change wherein scenery is moved from above, requiring a large fly space.
What is a flying set change?
A genre of comedy which is by turns satirical and physical, characterized by improbable plots and broad characters.
What is farce?
A short-lived style of theatre that focused on machinery and progress; it was eventually absorbed into fascism.
What is futurism?
Estrangement or the concept that the audience must constantly be reminded that they are watching a performance.
What is Verfremdung or Alienation?
Actors frequently wait in them, beside the stage.
What are wings?