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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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What are the responsibilites of an actor?

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  • Study the text
  • Memorize lines and blocking quickly
  • Bring new ideas to the rehearsal process on a daily basis
  • Work openly with the directory and other actors
  • Be creative
  • Constantly refine character development
  • High energy
  • Maintain health
  • Sustain freshness in performance
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What are the necessary skills/ talents of an actor?

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  • Interest in human nature
  • Keen observation
  • Good memory
  • Concentration
  • Imagination
  • Drive to appear on stage in front of audience
  • The ability to create characters
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Casting process: Directing

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Director must choose actors who are suited to the roles in the play, who have good work habits and who will work well in the particular configuration of the cast.

Typecasting: casting according to appearance

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What do the artistic vision of playwrights emerge from?

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Their imagination, personal history and responses to cultural infulences

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What is blocking?

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The staging of the actor’s movements on the stage

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What is acting?

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lining in an imagined situation truthfully

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What is cold reading?

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when an acotr reads scenes from the play in an audition with littel to no time to prepare

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In rehearsals what is the purpose of table work?

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to discuss the play, share background materials on the play and establish the directional concept

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What is subtext?

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The thoughts that occur behind or between the characters’ lines but go unspoken

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What rehearsal method is mainly used for enhanciing belief and creating imaginative actions?

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Improvisation

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What comes after the initial stage of the audition process, another round of auditions known as…

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callbacks

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American playwright focused on the need for individuals to take responsibility for their children and for society

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Arthur Miller

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Swedish playwright who wrote “dialogues of cruelty”

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August Strindberg

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Norwegian playwright concerned with the limitations of a tightly structured, hierarchial society

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Henrik Ibsen

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American Playwright focused on the impact of a harsh society on fragile characters

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Tenessee Williams

20
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Russian who wrote plays with self absorbed characters incapable of action

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Anton Chekhov

21
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American playwroght concerned with characters that recognize but fail to act against injustice

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Lilian Hellman

22
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What are stylistic choices for realistic theatre?

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The lives of the middle-class a poor characters were the focus of serious drama

The language of the characters was the informal language of the workplace and the home

Actors had to speak to eachother conversationally as if the audience were not there

23
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What are factors in the emergence of nonrealistic theatre?

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increasing destructive weaponry of WWI and WWII

Religious skepticism increased int he face of the meaningless slaughter of millions

changing views of the nature of the universe

24
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What is an example of nonrealistic theatre?

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the audience is often times reminded they are watching a theatrical creation

25
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What was the nonrealistic theatre of bertolt brecht called?

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epic theatre

26
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In nonrealistic theatre the audience often sees the world as….

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the character would see it, throguh distortion, grotesque images and nightmare visions

27
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What is the most common theme of the theatre of the absurd?

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the meaninglessness of human existence and inability of language to communicate in an effective way

28
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What is a responsibility that is not applicable to most theatre designer

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fix problems as they come up during performances

29
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What do the director and designer strive to accomplish in their collaborations before rehearsals beign

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to arrive at a production concept

30
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What is theatre called if the audience sits opposite the stage facing a rectangular form as if they were looking through one end of a box?

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Proscenium theatre

31
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What is not an option for changing sets during a performance in a thrust arena or theatre?

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the main curtain can be lowered, allowing set changes to occur without an audience seeing the changes

32
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Who calls the light cues when a show is in performance?

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The stage manager

33
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What is true about non-traditional casting?

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There is increasing participation in the theatre of actors and directors from diverse ethnic groups

contemporary productions frequently combine actors from different racial backgrounds even when playing members of the same family

directors utilize color-blind/inclusinve casting in an attempt to cast the best actor for the role

34
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What is the process of guiding the audience’s attention to a specific actor or point on stage called?

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focus

35
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Which of the following is not a responsibility of a director in the theatre today?

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line memorization

36
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When did the position of the director become part of theatre?

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as there became interest in realism during the 19th century

37
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Why was the position of director created in theatre?

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With the advent of realism and a profusion of theatre styles that arose in response to realism the new plays required a director to stage them.

38
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What does ACTS stand for, what is it?

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it is the theory/ philosophy of a director

Artistic

Critic

Teacher

Scholar

39
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How do stage directors train/ practice?

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Analyze

Staging

Coach

40
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Stage Director: Analysis

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Defining the world and structure of the play:

The Givens

Dialogue

Characters

Idea

Moods

Tempos

41
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Stage director: Staging

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Visual actions within the world:

groundplan

composition

gestures

props

picturization

movement

42
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Stage Director: Coaching

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the essential action or the fighting for, character coaching:

relationship

orchestration

moment to moment

43
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What does CARISIE stand for?

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Commitment

Analysis

Research

Incubation

Selection

Implementation

Evaluation

44
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What are the given circumstances? what do they stand for?

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WHO: who am I?

WHAT: what do I want?

WHERE: where does the scene take place?

WHEN: what year does the play take place? what just happened?

WHY: why is it important that i get what i want? (make big and important)

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