Types of Stages
What is a Proscenium stage?
The member of the Theatre in charge of telling the actors where to move, approving the designs, and putting the show together.
Who is the Director?
The middle of the stage.
What is Centerstage?
The show that Carter took 120 students to this February. Say it three times.
The art of making up your lines and actions in the moment, sometimes with suggestions or a prompt given.
What is Improvisation?
This stage is used for a model's catwalk.
What is a Thrust stage?
This person is has written the entire script of the play.
Who is the Playwright?
What is the area furthest from the audience?
What is Upstage?
This horror-style zombie show was the first play Carter performed this year.
What is Night of the Living Dead?
The determined movement of an actor in a scene. When working on scenes, I would say make sure you have emotion and...
What is Blocking?
The stage used in sport events and wrestling, has seating on all four sides.
What is an Arena?
The member of the production team responsible for running the performance, including calling cues and annotating the script.
Who is the Stage Manager?
Whose point of view are Stage Directions given in?
What is the Actor's?
The first after-school show of the year was about a murderess on trial for killing her husband in the 1920s.
What is Chicago?
The act of giving your name and the title of your piece before a performance or audition.
What is a Slate or Slating?
This type of stage has is darkened to be intimate and has moveable seating.
What is a Black Box?
This person is in charge of the funding, budgeting, hiring and fundraising for the shows.
Who is the Producer?
When you are facing the stage as an audience member, your House left is what direction on stage?
This UIL Competition show was about a puppet becoming real and trying to escape his "master" with his best/girl friend.
What is "And Jack Fell Down"?
The term for where the Audience sits in the Theater.
What is the House?
This stage has seating on two sides. It looks like an unattached catwalk.
What is a Traverse stage?
This person is in charge of designing, making or finding all of the hand-held objects actors use in shows.
Who is the Prop Master/Prop Designer?
Stop what you are doing.
The FIRST person to step on the X for USL will get these points.
Who did it?
Carter went to two shows after-school this year, one mentioned earlier, and the other about a Founding Father. Name this second show.
What is Hamilton?
After an audition, an actor can be asked to be seen multiple times. The term for the actors' second audition.
What is a Callback?