The Art of Directing

Question 1

Theatre artists are split several sections who work within the parameters the playwright has set. They were called what?

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Creative Artists

Question 2

The movement of the actors on stage during a production.

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Blocking

Question 3

A technique for drawing focus when three actors or groups of actors are on stage;.

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Triangulation

Question 4

Taking focus out of turn; also known as upstaging.

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Stealing Focus

Question 5

Interpretive directors make every attempt to realize the playwright’s words and actions in a style that is what?

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True to the Script

Question 6

Casting an actor who physically matches the role or who has a deep understanding of the character.

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Casting to Type

Question 7

A director who adds concepts, designs, or interpretations to a playwright’s words.

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Director of Creativity

Question 8

The modern concept of a director did not come about until this century, when realism became popular.

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Nineteenth

Question 9

This American playwright said that a play script is only the “shadow of a play.

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Tennessee Williams

Question 10

Some directors are this type of leader who micromanage every aspect of the play.

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Authoritarian

Question 11

This playwright complained that directing a play was exhausting job.

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Ben Jonson

Question 12

The director’s job can be split in two phases. What are they?

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Pre-rehearsal and Rehearsal

Question 13

Casting without regard for the character’s gender.

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Gender-Neutral Casting

Question 14

The person who turns a printed script into a stage production.

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Director

Question 15

A playwright who staged the plays he wrote, instructing the performers and advising the designers and technicians.

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Didaskalos

Question 16

A person who specializes in finding the right actors for parts; especially common in Hollywood.

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Casting Director

Question 17

What 5 ways can the stage director gain the audience’s attention and direct their gaze to a particular spot or actor.

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Lighting, Costumes, Scenery, Voice, and Movements.

Question 18

In ancient Greece, around 400 bce, who staged the plays they wrote?

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Playwrights

Question 19

This is a section of dialogue about a particular subject or idea; the smallest structural element of a script.

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Beat

Question 20

Taking focus out of turn; also known as stealing focus.

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Upstaging

Question 21

A common theatre adage is that 90 percent of directing is what?

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Casting

Question 22

Composing pictures with the actors to reinforce an idea in the story; a technique used by directors.

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Picturization

Question 23

A structural element of a play that begins with any entrance or exit and continues until the next entrance or exit.

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French Scene

Question 24

The thematic idea, symbol, or allegory that conveys the tone, mood, and theme of a play.

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Production Concept

Question 25

Pre-rehearsal might be called the this because everything is on paper.

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Paper Phase

Question 26

Casting an actor who is very different from the type of person who would be expected to play the part.

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Casting Against Type

Question 27

Other directors are more like this who guide and inspire as they orchestrate the play in a democratic style.

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Creative Coaches

Question 28

The actor, action, or spot on the stage to which the director draws the audience’s attention.

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Focus

Question 29

Intentionally casting men to play women’s roles and women to play men’s roles.

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Cross-gender casting

Question 30

A literary advisor and expert in theatre history who helps better understand the specifics and sensibilitie

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Dramaturg

Question 31

An actor’s position at a right angle to the audience; halfway between open and closed.

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Profile

Question 32

A position for two or more actors, each with a shoulder thrown back so that the audience can see them equally.

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Sharing Focus

Question 33

A production of a play dominated by the director’s artistic vision, or concept.

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Concept production

Question 34

One of the nine sections of the stage labeled according to the actors’ point of view.

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Stage Area

Question 35

This is a person who helps stage scenes and manage the production crew.

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Assistant Director

Question 36

Casting actors without regard for their race or ethnic background.

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Color-Blind Casting

Question 37

Directors must also know how to create this kind of working environment.

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Cohesive and Pleasant

Question 38

A Russian theatre company founded in the late nineteenth century.

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Moscow Art Theatre

Question 39

A director whose goal is to translate a script from page to stage as faithfully as possible.

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Interpretive Director

The Art of Directing

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The Art of Directing

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