Tech Theatre Flashcards
What structures will you find in an ancient Greek theatre?
- Theotron - seating
- Orchestra - playing area
- Skene - backstage
- Entry way - Parados
- Proskenion - stage decoration
- Eccyclema - rolling stage additions
- Pariaktoi & Pinakes - scene changes
- (Deus Ex) Machina - crane to make the actor fly
What features might you find on (Medieval) Platea and Pageant Wagon stages?
Platea: built next to church, congregational areas, mansion divided into three sections (heaven, earth, hell); secrets
Pageant: traveling stage, fold out, dressing room in back of carriage; creating a space for everyone to come to
How does technology influence theatre technicians?
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What will be on a production poster?
- An image that catches the eye and cmoments on the theme of the play
- Company/group
- Title of play
- Playwright (50% the size of the title)
- Time/date/location
- Price of admission
Who is on the concept team?
- Artistic director
- Production manager
- Dramaturg
- Director
- Musical director
- Choreographer
What is the Dramturg’s responsibility?
Historian, researcher, analysis
What techniques did sailors bring to the theatre?
Rigging
- Pulley
- Pin rails
- Knots
Who are the four major designers and what are their responsibilities?
Set
Costume
Sound
Light
What crew jobs may you have backstage during a show?
- Floor manager
- Run crew
- Fly master
- Fly crew
- Prop master/assistance
- Dressers
- Light operators
- Sound operators
- Media operators
- Spot operators
What crew jobs may you have that are not during a show?
- Carpenters
- Painters
- Electricians
- Welders
- Plumbers
- Tailors, seamstresses
- Sound engineers
- Riggers
What is the responsibility of a Technical Director?
- Manage the shops and theatre spaces
- Transition the vision of the designers to a reality
- Manage the outside show crew
- Train backstage crew
- (w/ the SM) run technical rehearsals
- Good TD’s have the mind of a mythbuster
What is the responsibility of of the Stage Manager?
- Runs auditions
- Assist with casting
- The main organizational mind behind a single production
- Runs rehearsals
- Runs tech rehearsals (with the tech directors)
- Manage stage crew
- Call show (cues)
What is a cue?
A signaled event
What is the House and who gives it order?
The audience. The ushers and house managers
