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WELCOME TO:
THEATRE APPRECIATION
At
FORT SCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Division of: Fine Arts/Theatre

TERMINOLOGY
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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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 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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 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-
TERMINOLOGY
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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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 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-
TERMINOLOGY
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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 ascend
The 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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 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-
TERMINOLOGY
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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
TERMINOLOGY
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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-
TERMINOLOGY
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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-
TERMINOLOGY
&

 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-
TERMINOLOGY
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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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 Catwalk
 Grid
 “Movies will make you famous; Television
will make you rich; But theatre will make you
good.”
― Terrence Mann
TERMINOLOGY
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 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-
TERMINOLOGY
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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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 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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 What is blocking? Why is it different than
Choreography?
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“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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 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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