Jobs and Shakespeare
The person responsible for running the whole show.
Who is the stage manager?
A photograph of a performer, head and shoulders only.
What is a headshot?
Outside, also Italy and the surrounding countryside.
Where was Commedia performed?
The sunken area of the theatre where the conductor and musicians are located.
What is the orchestra pit or the pit?
The two forms of theatre that always allowed women to perform.
What are Kathakali and Commedia?
The term for the people who buy the cheapest seats in the theatre in Elizabethan times.
The number of different themes in Noh.
What is 5?
The Captain and the Doctor.
Who are two stock characters in Commedia?
The area of the theatre and the people who deal with the audience.
What is the front of house?
A theatre group that rehearses several plays at once.
What is a repertory theatre?
People responsible for getting in and out of their costumes.
Who are the dressers?
A reading of the the script that is totally new to the actor.
What is a cold reading?
A current comedy style that owes its origins to Commedia.
What is Saturday Night Live?
A screen of cloth on stage that separates the audience from the performers.
What is the curtain?
Familiar characters who are the same type of characters in every play.
What are stock characters?
The way the we believe Shakespeare actually sounded.
What is OP or Original Pronunciation?
An additional round of auditions for the same production.
What are callbacks?
An imaginary wall between the audience and actors on the stage.
What is the fourth wall?
An opening on the stage where something or someone can be hidden.
What is the trap?
What is Bunraku?
An actor who learns one of more roles to substitute in case principal actors cannot perform.
Who is the understudy?
After the auditions, when the cast comes together and reads the entire script.
What is a read-through?
Rehearsal where the whole show is being run from beginning to end.
What is a run through?
What is the green room?
The time it takes to run through the stage show, including intermissions.
What is the running time?