American Theatre Test 2

Front 1

Everything we see in the theatre is influenced by the _____?

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Director

Front 2

Practical Responsibility

Back 2

Scheduling the entire rehearsal process and overseeing the acting, the staging, the design process, and the integration of the designs into the production.

Front 3

Artistic

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Finding the central idea of the play, conceptualizing the production, leading the company in pursuit of the vision of the production.

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Teacher-Director

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teaching the proper way of performing the play. During Enlightenment and into 1900s

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George II, Duke of Saxe-Meinigen

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first modern director. verisimilitude (lifelikeness)

Front 6

Andre Antoine

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created Theatre Libre

Front 7

Stanislavski and Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko created the ________?

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Moscow Art Theatre

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Anti-realistic directors

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goal was to create art, not lifelikeness

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Paul Fort

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Theatre d'Art in Paris

Front 10

biomechanical constructivism

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a style of acting that incorporates bold gestures and acrobatic movement

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Captain of the Ship

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Director, term created by Gordon Craig

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Dramatic Poet

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Director

Front 13

3 necessary things for deciding on a play

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Interest, Audience, Physical

Front 14

Central Idea

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Directors main though about which one of the many themes, emotions, or ideas brought up by the play is most important

Front 15

High Concept

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In what style or manner should we do this play?

Front 16

Designer Selection

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who to hire?

Front 17

Initial Design meeting

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director lays out vision to the designer

Front 18

What has made collaborations b/w director and designer much easier?

Back 18

email and internet

Front 19

Casting is __ of directing?

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90% (82) Very Important

Front 20

Implementation

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Getting the job done

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Staging

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directing the movements and motions of the actors in the play. Main goal = credibility

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Blocking

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Pre blocking, improvisation and refining, hyrbid of first 2

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Choreographers

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direct dance

Front 24

Fight directors

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direct stage combat

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business

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small scale and particular movements that an actor does amongst the larger scale blocking.

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Actor coaching

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get stuff out of an actor

Front 27

pacing

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tempo of play

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coordination

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bringing together all of the elements of the production

Front 29

final week is aka

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tech week

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design

Back 30

creates he world of the production

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proscenium theatre

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stage is framed by an arch, backstage areas is completely masked off from the audience; audience only sits on the downstage side of the stage

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thrust theatre

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stage extends into the audience, typically the audience can sit 3/4 of the stage, allowing a small backstage area.

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Arena theatre

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audience completely surrounds the stage

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black box/flexible space theatre

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literally an empty box of a theatre

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Scenery

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Setting

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Serlio Set

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1545, Scenery built with a central vanishing point became in vogue

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Bibiena Set

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1700s, Highly detailed scenic pieces painted and built in realistic perspective

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Trompe l'oeil

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trick the eye
ex: 2-D paintings that look 3-D

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Wings

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Vertical scenic pieces on either side of the stage

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drops

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short for back drop, background

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borders

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horizontal scenic pieces that flew from above to compete the framing of the stage in conjunction with the wings

Front 42

box set

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flats joined together to form interconnecting walls

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Abstract (or metaphoric) scenery

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non-realistic scenery

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Platform

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anything to walk on @ any height, a raised structure of any height designed to be walked upon

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Flat

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a frame covered with wood or fabric. made to look like different surfaces

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Masking

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Haning velour, used to hide undesirable sights. 2 types are legs and borders

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Drops

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Large piece of fabric that can be painted realistically or abstractly

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Cyclorama

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Curved, often white, drop that hangs and can be used in conjunction with light to create a background

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Scrim

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loosely woven drop that when lit from downstage appears opaque, and when not lit and something upstage is lit it becomes transparent.

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Wagon

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rolling platform that brings on either actors or scenery or both

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Turntable

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round platform that can spin around with actors or scenery or both

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Elevator

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goes up and top

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trap

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hole in the stage

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staircase

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staircase

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set piece

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anything else, example a tree

Front 56

Props

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objects handles by the actor

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Set dressing

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objects not handled by the actor, for example pictures on the wall

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Furniture

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Furniture

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Lightings 4 basic goals

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Visibility, selective focus, modeling, and mood

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Stanley McCandless

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A method of lighting the stage, 1932

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McCandless' 5 controllable qualities of light

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intensity, distribution, color, and movement.

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Intensity

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how bright is the light?

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distribution

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where does light come from?

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color

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what color is the light?

Front 65

movement

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how does it look as one light is turned off as another is being turned on?

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verisimilitude

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likelikeness

Front 67

unit set

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a set that is not realistic, where different locations on the stage are used as different locales in the play

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2 tasks of light designer

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Light Plot, and Focus

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Costume

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clothing picked out by a particular character to wear

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rough

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quick sketches of costumes

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makeup

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design of the look of the actors face and features

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Stylized Makeup

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"mask" on actor's face...ex clowns

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Sound Designers

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manage sound and sound effects

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Earliest piece of theatre

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Triumph of Horus

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Ritual

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Ceremonial act or series of such acts

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Aristophanes

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Greek Comedy, "Old Comedy"

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Periaktoi

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Vertical prism shaped scenery

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Dues ex Machina

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God from Machine

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Scaenae Fons

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Scenery

Front 80

Vomitorium

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entranceways for the actors into the orchestra from underneath the audience.

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pageant

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moveable scaffold/wagon used to act on play

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Commedia dell'arte

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comedy of the art of improvisation

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zanni

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serving class

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Vecchio

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old men characters, zanni's master

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Brighella

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Looks like captain morgan, caricature of the colour of the inabitants of those high mountains

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Tartaglia

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basis for porky the pig

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Leandre

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a lover

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Interregnum

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When Puritans banned theatre, started in 1642, lasted 18 years

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Royal Theatre

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Written for an audience with a noble background

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Pedro Calderon

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Spain, La Vida es Sueno "life is a dream"

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Moliere

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Tartuffe, France

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William Congreve/Wycherly

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England

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Sanskrit

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Earlier form of theatre in India

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Nataka

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Heroic Stories

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Prakama

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Love stories

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Xigu

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chinese opera

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No

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Oldest performed type of theatre in the world. Japanese. Two characters - the main and the waki