WorksheetsGet Your Act Together
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 13mins
What is the name given to the person who writes the play?
Performer
Director
Playwright
Producer
What is a performer?
A person who realises a role in performance in front of an audience
The person in charge of the artistic elements of a production, who collaborates with designers and the technical team.
The person who is in charge of set design.
The person in charge of the front-of-house team
What is the name of the person who studies another actor's role so they can take over at short notice when needed?
Theatre manager
Producer
Understudy
Director
Who is in charge of all aspects of backstage, including the backstage crew, before, during and after a performance?
Director
Lighting designer
Set designer
Stage manager
Who is responsible for designing the lighting states and special lighting effects for a performance?
Set designer
Lighting designer
Technician
Director
Who is in charge of the artistic elements of the production, including the initial creative idea, will work with actors in rehearsal, collaborate with designers and technical team to realise this idea in performance?
Producer
Stage Manager
Playwright
Director
Who works backstage either setting up technical equipment such as microphones or rigging lights before a production or operating technical equipment during a performance?
Technician
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Theatre Manager
Who is the person who is responsible for and manages the front-of-house team who deal with the audience during the production (for example the box office manager, ushers and similar staff)?
Director
Producer
Stage Manager
Theatre Manager
Who designs the sound required for a performance? This may include underscoring, intro and outro music, as well as specific effects. The final design will result in a sound plot which is a list of the sounds required and their cues.
Technician
Sound Designer
Set Designer
Stage Manager
Who designs puppets for a performance?
Set designer
Stage Manager
Technician
Puppet Designer
Who is responsible for the design of the set for a performance?
Set designer
Costume designer
Playwright
Srage Manager
The costume department of a theatre is often called the wardrobe. Who designs the costumes for a production?
Set designer
Director
Producer
Costume designer
Who is responsible for organising the rehearsal schedule for a production?
Lead performer
Stage manager
Theatre manager
Technical director
Which staging style surrounds the action?
Traverse
Thrust
Proscenium
Theatre in the round
Which staging style often involves a projecting area of staging outwards from an end stage and has audience on 3 sides of the action?
End stage
Promenade
Traverse
Thrust
Which staging style has audience on two sides of a long performance area?
Traverse
Proscenium
Promenade
In the round
Which staging style involves the audience moving from location to location as the play unfolds, often outdoors, often led by a narrator in role?
Proscenium
Promenade
Traverse
End stage
What is the term used to describe the underlying meaning of a piece of scripted or improvised dialogue? It often carries the unspoken "truth".
Motivation
Surface text
Script
Subtext
What is the word which sums up the events or circumstances which may have influenced the main themes or ideas in a playscript, socially, historically, culturally?
Climate
Style
Context
Genre
What is the correct term for the most dramatic or significant moment in the structure of a play?
Climax
Conflict
Exposition
Rising action
A character always has something in mind which they want to achieve in a line, a scene, an act or a whole play. This is called the character's...
Plan
Attitude
Objective
Mood
Good Drama always should have the following : tension and...?
Comfy seats
Crisps
Cough sweets
Conflict
What does tension mean?
When people argue over which seat they booked in the theatre.
When there is suspense or a challenge which keeps the audience interested
When somebody's mobile phone rings during a performance.
A punch-up in the ice cream queue.
