Conventions
Peeps
Direction
Roles that Ain't Roles
To Ism or Not to Ism
100
Don’t look at me! Looking at the audience is known as breaking this structure.
What is the 4th wall?
100
Oh, so you’re a method actor? That is not my “method.” Some of my followers brought my teachings to America and messed them up.
What is Constantin Stanislavski?
100
John might consider himself to be this particular type of director in the way that he approaches text.
What is radical?
100
Hear that? I made it happen
What is a sound designer?
100
Boo hoo. You’re sad because you are going to fail this midterm. Go ahead and write this type of play.
What is a tragedy?
200
Get in the mood with this important theatrical element
What is lighting/sound?
200
My theatre is epic.
What is Brecht?
200
This director believed in creating ensemble.
Who is Grotowski?
200
Without me, you’d have no ground to stand on... and not much to look at. I design that.
What is a scenic designer?
200
Do you have time to study? Make sure things take place in a reasonable amount of time in this particular type of play.
What is realism?
300
Picture this. This arch helps create a portrait onstage.
What is a proscenium?
300
I authored the story of a crazy woman killing her children and her husband’s wife to be and father in law to be.
Who is Euripedes?
300
Often the first responsibility of a director is to do this.
What is choose a play?
300
I see you. So does everyone else. But its my job.
What is a lighting designer?
300
cowDOgBurgerpaintingstuff. That’s a new example of my play that is a type of this.
What is postmodernism
400
In a right-to-work state like North Carolina? Uh oh. Guess it doesn’t matter that you are a member of this performer organization.
What is Actor's Equity Association?
400
I might have died the same day I was born.... many years apart.
Who is Shakespeare?
400
LSD anyone? This director worked with Wooster group to create a problematic show.
Who is LeCompte?
400
I believe that this esoteric dichotomy of a pedantic and ostentatious display presents an idiosyncratic and insidious conundrum. Don’t know what those words mean? Ask me. I will look it up and bring an answer to rehearsal.
What is a dramaturg?
400
Nobody actually knows what this word means. Maybe its just a way of describing how fabulous the type of play is. Its part of the magic.
What is theatricalism?
500
OK. So you are a boy playing a girl playing a boy playing a girl playing a monster. You are not actually a monster so your role is definitely a type of this.
What is non-traditional casting?
500
I am not quite a poet. My works sounds like it but I love a good spectacle.
Who is Aristotle?
500
I duke out my principles of directing. Also I am an actual duke
What is the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen?
500
You are having a breakdown. I don’t care. I am a type of director but I don’t really deal with actors.
What is a technical director?
500
I love you. I don't love you. You love me. I die a death of epic propotions. This isn't what it sounds like.
What is Romanticism?