Masks
What is all around the world?
When I say upstage right, you write...
What is USR or UR?
The stage manager writes this, the movement of actors, down during rehearsal. Actors should too.
What is blocking?
The play this fall was...
What is Jane Eyre?
This character from Commedia dell'Arte is a cowardly captain.
Who is Capitano?
This kind of stage has two sides of audience.
What is Transverse or Runway?
This kind of theatre does not have a script. It is made up on the spot.
What is Improvised Theatre or Improv?
The costume closet is here.
What is up the stairs in the North Gym?
Masks are sometimes used for this, a kind of spiritual practice.
What is a ritual?
The audience sits on all sides of this kind of stage.
What is Arena or In the Round?
These are the italicized parts of a script. They describe the setting or actions the characters take.
What are stage directions?
The GCS Theater (North Gym) is this kind of stage
What is Proscenium?
The oldest mask was made of this.
The Proscenium stage has this while other stages do not. It is a sort of lip that is over the orchestra pit.
What is the apron?
This kind of scene starts ends with a character's entrance or exit.
What is a French scene?
This aspect of the production gives clues to the setting, like the kind of weather, and add to the emotion of the scene. It also occurs before the show and during intermission. (We worked on it in class)
What is sound?
Commedia dell'Arte is from this era.
What is the Italian Renaissance?
This is a sort of tunnel under the audience. Actors can enter or exit from these. It comes from the Colosseum in Ancient Rome.
What is vomitorium or vom?
Write this in blocking notation:
Rochester crosses downstage right toward Jane
Jane looks at Rochester, then sits.
Rochester jumps, crosses to the couch and sits.
Roch X DSR -> Jane
Jane Roch, S
Roch J, X -> , S
All the actors and set pieces hid in this part of the stage before their entrances. The tall curtains create openings called this.
What are the wings?