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Director Vocab
Medieval Play Masters
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Play Directors
100
He/she is the leader of the play.
What is the director?
100
Workers who maintain and execute cues for props, costumes, set, lighting, and sound during the run of the show.
Who are run crews?
100
They are a group of plays authored by the same person that are connected with each other by having the same continuing idea and characters. They are performed in sequences of episodes.
What is cycle plays?
100
It is made up of the artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience.
What is a concept?
100
He is the director of Phantom of the Opera and Sweeney Todd.
Who is Harold Prince?
200
A director often prepares and presents a play with no input from this person, who created the script.
Who is the playwright?
200
His/her most important jobs are usually scheduling (spaces, rehearsals, and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for productions.
Who is a production manager?
200
They were sometimes called "prompters" and "ordinaries".
Who are play masters?
200
It is a literary and historical advisor assigned specifically to the production.
What is a dramaturg?
200
He is the director of Hairspray.
Who is Jack O'Brien?
300
He/she could be defined as an interpretive artist who attempts to unify the production.
What is a modern director?
300
The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
What is rehearsal?
300
An annotated copy of a play for the use of a prompter during a performance.
What is a promptbook?
300
It is the imaginary "wall" at the front of the stage in a traditional three-walled box set in a proscenium theatre.
What is fourth wall staging?
300
He is the director of Chicago.
Who is Rob Marshall?
400
He/she coordinates a show during rehearsal and performance and keep the director’s artistic choices intact during its run
What is a stage manager?
400
Combining all elements to bring the text alive in three dimensions.
What is staging?
400
The first indication of the position we today call the director occurred in ...
What is Medieval Europe?
400
It is creating a meaning beyond what is literal and obvious in the text.
What is interpretation?
400
She is the director of The Lion King.
Who is Julie Taymor?
500
The first constructivist set was created by this person.
Who is Meyerhold, a designer from Magnanimous?
500
Near the end of the rehearsal process, light, sound, and set changes are added to the show during THIS.
What is the technical rehearsal?
500
Records still exist regarding play masters from there 3 territories.
What are French, German and English?
500
Selecting actors for each role.
What is casting?
500
He is the director of Wicked.
Who is Joe Mantello?