Theatre Vocab 2017 Exam

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Tasks

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Pieces of work or function that need to be done, the total of which compromises an overall activity.

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Piggy Back

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A camera shot with both actors involved, facing the cameras behind one another. This allows both characters to have their private thoughts about each other while allowing the audience to see what both characters are thinking.

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Conductor

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The director of an orchestra

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Cue

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The action, line, or phrase of dialogue that signals your character to move or speak.

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Incandescent

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Light source consisting of a metal filament that glows white hot when current is run through

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Director

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Responsible for the overall artistic vision of a production.

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Conflict

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An essential element of acting that involves the obstacles and struggles that a character must overcome to reach their objective

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Quick Change

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A costume change that needs to happen very quickly and takes place close to the side of the stage

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Animator

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Facilitator of a community, education, or group event.

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Organic

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A natural response that comes from deep within the character/actor.

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Lyricist

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Author of the text of a musical/the words of the song.

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Given

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The background and current circumstances of a character, to create more reality and meaning to further the needs of the story.

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Indicating

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Showing what your character is feeling/doing without actually feeling/doing, leading to a false or shallow performance.

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Sides

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A portion of a script selected for an audition that highlights a certain character.

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Dresser

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Member of the wardrobe department that helps actors with costume care and costume changes during the performance.

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Three-Quarters

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A stage position where the actor is facing halfway towards the actor at their side and halfway towards the audience, thus giving the audience a three-quarters view of the actor.

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Upstaging

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To go upstage of an actor with whom you are sharing a scene, this causes the other actor to be downstage in the weaker position of having to face upstage to speak to the other actor.

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Producer

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The person or body responsible for the financial or contractual side of a production

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Physicalization

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To express with the body, showing as opposing to telling, externals of a character.

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Driving Question`

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Always beginning with "How can I...?" It's a rephrasing of the actor's objective in the active and very specific form of a question that needs to be answered within the scene.

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Cue to cue

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A tech rehearsal, where to save time, the action and text is cut out between cues.

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Front of house manager

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Member of the theatre management who is responsible for the day to day running of the front of the house area.

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Motivation

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The why, the reason a character pursues a particular objective or super objective.

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Subtext

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The characters thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc created and layered under the actual words and actions of the character by the actor.

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Director

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Responsible for the overall artistic vision of a production.

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Outer Tactics

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The method of "how" an actor/character goes about doing their action in a beat.

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Box Office

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Member of the theatre staff responsible for the operation of the box office, including customer service standards, ticket sales, the correct recording of ticket sales, etc.

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Choreographer

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Member of the production team responsible for setting dances and movement sequences during the production.

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Lighting Designer

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Member of the production team who is responsible for the overall look of the lighting.

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Seamstress

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Member of the wardrobe department who operates the sewing machine and carries out other sewing tasks.

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Representational

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Represents "realism," characters in their real lives who are not aware that the audience is there.

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Downstage

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The front of the stage or part closest to the audience.

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Inner Action

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A physical action verb chosen by the actor in the pursuit of an objective.

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Production Manager

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Responsible for the technical preparations, including budgeting and scheduling of productions.

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Ad Lib

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Spoken words said out that are not in the script

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Staging

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The final results of blocking- alternatively called blocking

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Costume Designer

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Member of the creative team for a show responsible for the clothes worn by the actors throughout the performance

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Speed through

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A rehearsal with actors going through the lines of the play as quickly as possible, picking up cues.

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Sense memory

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Used to refer to the recall of physical sensations: sight, touch, taste, smell, and sound. These physical sensations surround an emotional event instead of the emotions themselves.

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Super objective

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Stanislavsky developed the concept of the super objective that would carry the "through line of action," mapped out for the character the entire play

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Over the shoulder

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A camera shot of the scene from behind or "over the shoulder" of a principal actor, revealing what they are seeing from their point of view.

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Heads up

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A shouted warning for staff to be aware of activity above them, also used when an object is being dropped from above.

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Casuals

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Part time temporary technicians

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Master

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An overall control fader or lever on a lighting or sound control board

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Gondola

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An enclosed easily transportable costume rail with removable sides which enables large shows to maintain huge quantities of costumes easily

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Prompter

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Person whose role it is to follow the text of the play, and be ready to remind the actors of their lines if they forget them.

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Adjustment

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A direction or modification an actor makes in the playing of the material.

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POV

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A shot that shows the scene through the character's eyes.

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VO

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A recording that will either be added later or played back while shooting the scene.

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Soliloquy

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A speech given directly to the audience, ordinarily with no one else on stage.