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What is a technical director
This person supervises the crew responsible for set construction, painting of the set, etc.
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What is enlightenment
In a formula plot this is the point at which the protagonist understands how to defeat the antagonist; often tied to the theme of the play.
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What is theatre in the round, or an arena stage
In this theatre space, the stage is in the center like an island, and the audience sits on all sides.
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What is a screenwriter.
In this profession, writers have a closed shop union.
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Who is the Stage Manager
This person keeps up with all blocking, prepares rehearsal reports, and "calls" the show cues from the booth during performances.
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What is the house manager
This person manages the ushers and helps the audience before and during the performance.
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What is the dark moment
In a formula plot, this is the point at which the protagonist fails, the quest collapses, and the goal seems unattainable.
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What is a thrust stage
In this stage space, an audience sits on three sides.
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What is seventy years
This is the number of years after a playwright dies that one must wait for their work to become public domain.
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Who is Goethe
What dramatic critic prescribed that you should "Put opinion aside and attempt to determine the artist's intention(s) and reasons for his or her choices."
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What is a dramaturg
This person acts as a literary advisor and expert in theatre history to help the director understand specifics about a play's history, period, style, etc.
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What is line, harmony, texture, color, balance, dimension, or movement
These are three elements of design
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What is empathy
This is the ability to understand and identify with another's situation, feelings, and motives so completely that you feel you are experiencing that situation.
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What is ethnocentrism
When we all see the world from our own point of view, and most people tend to think that their take on things, as seen through their culture, is the correct view. This phenomenon is called:
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What is aesthetic distance
This is the audience's ability to remove themselves from a work of art just far enough so that they can contemplate it -- or even judge it.
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Who is Konstantin Stanislavsky
This person is considered the 'father of modern acting' and helped found the Moscow Art Theatre
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What is a gobo
This is the name given to a frame that is placed in a theatrical lighting instrument to create shadows and shapes (such as trees, window frames, etc.)
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What is a tragic flaw
This is an inner conflict that is powerful enough to affect a character's good judgement and cause the character to make unfortunate choices
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What is a concept meeting
This meeting takes place long before the play is cast or the sets and costumes are designed. Those present include the director and designers. The purpose of the meeting is to brainstorm, research, and experiment with different design possibilities so that the director can synchronize all the aesthetic elements and talents needed to realize his or her interpretation of the script.
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What is dialogue, stage directions and parentheticals
These are the three ingredients you will see on the page of a script.
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What is theatre of identity, cross-cultural theatre, and theatre of protest
Theatre of the people consists of these three areas (according to the book)
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What is raked
This the term for stages in the past that were slanted on an angle and give us our stage directions in the theatre
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What is plot, character, thought, diction, spectacle and song.
These are Aristotle's six elements of drama
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What is in "1", or in "2"
From our stage tour: The entrance areas on each side of the stage, which are sort of like "alleyways" created by the fabric legs hanging there, are known as:
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What is theatre of identity
In which category of theatre of the people might you find disability theatre?
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