Performance Quiz

What is the theatre word for "try out"?

• Slate

• Introduction

• Audition

• Cold Readings

What are some ways you can audition?

• Cold Readings

• Improvisations

• Memorized Monologues

• All of the Above

Which of these does rehearsals NOT consist of?

• Cold Readings and Improvisation

• Blocking

• Sketching

• Technical Run Throughs

What does a playwright do?

• Write the play

• Schedule Rehearsals

• Direct the Play

• Design the Play

What is the definition of Script

• Material for rehearsals.

• Cursive words.

• The paper a director uses.

• The written form of what actors perform.

What do scripts have in them?

• Information on the Play

• Lines and Stage Directions

• Cues

• None of the Above

What does a Cue do?

• Gives an actor a heads up.

• Helps a playwright write.

• Gives directors ideas.

• Signals an actor to speak or move.

Which of these is a line?

• Bob enters from stage left.

• Bob: This test is sooo easy.

• Bob exits stage left with a hammer.

• Bob: (SCREAMS)

What does Stage Direction do?

• Give the directors and actors a way to understand the action/non verbal parts of the story in the script.

• Tell the story.

• It can convey emotion or physical movement.

• None of the Above.

Which of these is not a Famous Playwright?

• William Shakespeare

• August Wilson

• Andrew Lloyd Webber

• Lindsay Price