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WELCOME TO: THEATRE APPRECIATION

AtFORT SCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGEDivision of: Fine Arts/Theatre

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SOME QUOTES TO HELP YOU APPRECIATE THEATRE AND THE PROCESS!

Your ticket says; curtain up at 7.30. Cast and crew involved in the first scene receive a call at "the half", which is when?

“give me four trestles (metal frame), four boards, two actors and a passion”

-Lope De Vega, Playwright.

Audience is also advised as to how long there is to go before curtain up. What term is used to describe these announcements?

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out”

Alfred Hichcock, Director

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SOME QUOTES TO HELP YOU APPRECIATE THEATRE AND THE

PROCESS!

Theatre folk live by the maxim "the show must go on", but occasionally illness (such as a sore throat or injury sustained while dancing) means that a principal performer is unable to appear. What do we call the artiste taking the place of their indisposed colleague?

What about an artist covering for more than one role?

“You need to have three things in theatre, the play, the actors, and the audience, and each must give something.” –Kenneth Haigh, Theatre arts.

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PROCESS!

Backstage, everything is ready, and clearance can be given to allow the audience in. What phrase is used?

“All I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life” –Oscar Wilde-

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These days done via a backstage sound system, artistes were once summoned to the stage by a knock on their dressing room door. What was the title of the person who did this job?

Green Room

“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master” –Leonardo da Vinci-

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PROCESS!

To ensure all sound, lighting, and scenery cues are executed correctly, the show is "called". Who does this?

Spike Glow Tape

“Acting is the ability to dream on cue”-Ralph Richardson-

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It doesn’t happen often, but once in a while, in a rehearsal, a performer may "dry", and forget their lines. Who is there to save their bacon and allow the action to continue? What does the actor say for a cue?

“Each actor has a little workshop inside himself that is his own. There is something important going on inside actors who really love their profession”-Maria Schell-

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Stage Left and Stage Right apply from an audience perspective as viewed from your seat. True/False?

Down Stage, Upstage, Wings.

“Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for.

–Glenda Jackson-

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You are watching a scene set in a drawing room, and a performer crosses to a side table and switches on a lamp, which actually comes on. What term is used for this type of prop?

Also: Stage Props, Hand Props “O for a muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention,A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,And monarchs to behold the swelling

scene!-William Shakespeare- (Henry V (prologue)

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PROCESS!

What/Where is the marquee? Some Jobs: House Manager –box office, ushers. -Producer -Director/Artistic Director – Musical,

Choreographer. Stage Manager Technical Director- Light and Sound board

Operators.

“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: “Behold! These things are.” Yet most dramatists employ it to say: “This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action” –Thorton Wilder-

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A light left burning overnight on stage to keep friendly spirits illuminated and unfriendly spirits at bay is called a what?

“ I regard theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being” –Thorton Wilder-

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What is the term commonly used to describe a meeting between the stage manager, director and lighting/sound technicians to organize the cues?

“There was never yet an uninteresting life.

Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.” –Mark Twain-

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What is the name of the structure that frames the stage opening?

Arena Black Box Thrust Proscenium Theatre in the Round

“The best advice I can give a young actor is this: Learn your lines” –Spencer Tracy-

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In theatre, special effects are often achieved by using a curtain (sometimes made of muslin) which, depending upon the lighting, can either be transparent or opaque. What is this called?

Cyc, Torms, Legs, Teasers “Because good theatre appeals to the

mind, interesting ideas are prerequisite”-David Hwang-

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What is the term for an insert, usually made of metal, which you slide into a light to create a special effect in light and shadow?

“The world’s a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill”

-John Heywood-

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The term for light which can be seen in undesired areas of the stage is what?

“A lot of hogwash is talked about acting. It’s not all that fancy! You laugh, you cry, you pick up a little bit, and then you’re a working actor.” –Katharine Hepburn-

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The name for the part of a fresnel which allow you to focus the light is what?

“I found that (drama) was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of myself and into somebody else’s head. –Harrison Ford-

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The term "bulb" is never used in theatre to describe a lightbulb. What is the preferred term?

“The artistic temperament is a disease which affects amateurs” –G.K Cheterton-

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A piece of unscripted action, often comic in intention, used to establish a character or fill a pause in dialogue is called what?

“We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.” –Thorton Wilder-

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What is a Stage Weight? Flies

Respond to quote: “You need to have three things in theatre, the play, the actors, and the audience, and each must give something.” –Kenneth Haigh, Theatre arts

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What does the term paper the house mean?

Respond: “All I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life” –Oscar Wilde-

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What and where is the Apron?

“If I don’t practice for one day, I know it; if I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it; if I don’t practice for three days, the audience knows it. –Ignacy Padereski-

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What is a technical rehearsal? What is a Cue to Cue? Paper Tech.

“Act well your part; there all the honor lies”

-Alexander Pope-

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What is a Batton? What is an Electric?

“Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s

always something to hope for. –Glenda Jackson-

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What is Motivation as an Actor? What is Characterization? How do we

find it?What do you think Subtext is?

“I mad some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But the drama is when the audience cries.”

-Frank Capra-

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Most plays have them. Stories have them, so do the sound and lighting directors of the theater. What word am I looking for?

Respond:“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: “Behold! These things are.” Yet most dramatists employ it to say: “This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action” –Thorton Wilder-

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What are used to give different colors to stage lights, sometimes in

combination on just one light? Respond: “Because good theatre

appeals to the mind, interesting ideas are prerequisite”-David Hwang-

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What do you call the metal stencil used in a light fixture (usually an

ellipsoidal) to create a picture out of light and shadow?

Respond: “The artistic temperament is a disease which affects amateurs” –

G.K Cheterton-

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What do you call the hole in the stage floor used for special effects?

Respond: “We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great

theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.” –Thorton Wilder-

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Voms Foot lights

Respond: “Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.” ― Constantin Stanislavski, My Life In Art

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http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/54455.Constantin_Stanislavski

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/54455.Constantin_Stanislavski

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/82688

Catwalk Grid

“Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.” ― Terrence Mann

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http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/709702.Terrence_Mann

How can first time actors remember to stay open to their audience?

Respond: “ An Artist is Never poor” Babette’s Feast

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Unless the production is a musical, the actors do not need to warm up. T/F

Respond: “You’re always trying to get things to come out perfectly in art because it’s real difficult in life” –Anne Hall-

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Who or what is a dresser?

“It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative, especially in the theater. You have to care so much that you can’t sleep, you can’t eat, you can’t talk to people. It’s just got to be right. You can’t do it without that passion”

-Agnes George DeMille-

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What do you think it means to be fearless in theatre?

“VIVA LA VIE BOHEME!” ― Jonathan Larson, Rent

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http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/103238.Jonathan_Larson

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/103238.Jonathan_Larson


Work Thru, Run Thru, Stumble Thru, Read Thru, Notes.

“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”

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What is the “fourth wall”

“An actor must never be afraid to make a fool of himself.” ― Harvey Cocks

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http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5266515.Harvey_Cocks

What is blocking? Why is it different than Choreography?

“The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe.” ― P.S. Baber, Cassie Draws the Universe

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http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4325499.P_S_Baber


Monologue/ Soliloquy “Theatres are curious places,

magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramatic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurrences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, political intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2798990.E_A_Bucchianeri

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2798990.E_A_Bucchianeri


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