the process of determining the placement or location of the actors on stage and planning their relative movement in a scene
What is blocking
100
The process of determining the placement or location of the actors on stage and planning their relative movement in a scene
What is blocking?
100
Shakespeare's Theatre
What is The Globe
100
The most influential playright
Who is Shakespeare?
100
a long speech by a single actor generally made by the actor speaking to the audience.
What is a monologue?
200
The portion of the stage closest to the audience
What is downstage?
200
The moment at which an actor should deliver words or actions
What is a cue?
200
The origins of drama began with what?
What is storytelling?
200
a play dealing with events that depicts man as a victim of destiny, yet superior to it, and the hero usually has some type of flaw or weakness that often leads to an unhappy ending
What is tragedy?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!
a long speech by a single actor generally made by the actor as if speaking to himself and is revealing of his thoughts or feelings
What is a soliloquy?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images, giving the illusion of continuous movement
What is FILM OR MOVIES?
300
The rate at which a scene or act is played
What is pacing?
300
The city where western theatre originated
What is Athens?
300
the leading character of a play with whom the audience identifies most strongly with who is often set in conflict with an opposing force or character.
What is a protagonist?
300
A written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more characters in a play
What is dialogue?
400
What stage is commonly known as the “picture frame stage?”
What is a proscenium?
400
style of acting that requires actors to recall personal memories of situations similar to those of the characters they portray
What is emotional memory or method acting?
400
era of drama that saw the arrival of the first women to act professionally
What is Restoration drama?
400
The turning point of the plot of the play when everything comes to an emotional crest near the end
What is a climax?
400
a situation in which the actors are provided with backgrounds on the setting and characters and then spontaneously invent dialogue and action
What is improvisation?
500
An Elizabethan stage that has three sides with the audience surrounding it
What is a thrust stage?
500
Who believed actors needed to take emotion and personality to the stage and set the base for method acting?
Who is Stanislavski?
500
The father of modern drama
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
500
direction used when the stage manager wants the actors and crew to get ready for the show to begin
What is "places"?
500
What century brought about the projects of realism and naturalism?