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WorksheetsGet Your Act Together 3
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Who writes the play?
Stage Manager
Director
Understudy
Playwright
Who realises a role in performance in front of an audience?
Actor
Technician
Director
Playwright
Who studies another performer's role so that they can take over when needed?
Scriptwriter
Understudy
Designer
Playwright
Who designs the lighting states and special lighting effects for a performance?
Sound designer
Technician
Stage manager
Lighting designer
Who is responsible for designing the sound required for a performance, which may include underscoring intro and outro music, and creates a sound plot which is a list of sound effects and cues?
Sound designer
Technician
Director
Theatre manager
Who designs the set for a performance, working closely with the director and other designers so there is a unity between all of the designs and the needs of the performance?
Stage manager
Set designer
Theatre manager
Set designer
Who designs the costumes for a performance, in the theatre department known as the "Wardrobe"?
Costume designer
Puppet designer
Director
Producer
Who designs puppets for a production?
The Muppets
The Puppet Designer
Mickey Johnstone
Sir David Attenborough
Who works backstage either setting up equipment such as microphones or rigging lights, or operating technical equipment during a performance?
Director
Technician
Producer
Lighting designer
Who is in charge of the creative concept for a production, works with the actors in rehearsal, and collaborates with designers and technical team to realise this idea in performance?
Producer
Theatre Manager
Director
Playwright
Who oversees everything backstage including the backstage crew?
Theatre manager
Stage manager
Director
Catering manager
Who is responsible for the front-of-house team who look after the audience, the box office, the ushers and similar staff?
Director
Producer
Theatre manager
Ticketmaster
What does "character" mean?
The name of the person in a playscript
The person who plays that role
Somebody famous in the cast
What does "actor" mean?
The person who has been cast after an audition, to play a role.
Performer in a play who pretends to be somebody else.
The name of a person in a playscript eg Eddie Lyons
What is the correct term for planning precisely the positioning of actors on stage, to establish or change the significance of a scene?
Siting
Locating
Blocking
Directing
What is the area in front of the stage called? Sometimes a live orchestra is located in front or underneath this area.
The apron
The front
Downstage
The auditorium
From whose point of view is stage left and stage right determined?
The audience's pov
The actors' pov
The direction of the wind
The location of ice cream sellers
What is the name of an end stage which has a decorative frame around it to make it look almost like a picture frame?
Thrust
Traverse
Proscenium arch
Black box
What is the correct name for the clear line of vision between the audience and actors, or between actors on stage? Sometimes set designers have to rethink their location of scenery to accommodate this.
Dotted lines
Sight lines
Cue lines
Script lines
If a director tells an actor to read a line "in a sarcastic tone of voice", this is an example of...
a stage direction
performance
blocking
LFX/SFX
Where would you find the wings of a stage?
Upstage
Centrestage
Backstage
Downstage
These plays focus on a tragic hero or couple (Mickey and Eddie; Romeo and Juliet) whose downfall is brought about through misfortune of some kind. Choose the correct spelling...
Tragedy
Tradgedy
Trageddy
Traggedy
These plays involve humour and often confusion, mistaken identity...choose the correct spelling
Commedy
Comeddy
Comidy
Comedy
A comic tragedy is a mix of the two elements, often involving characters whom we grow fond of because of their quirky and comic characters but who come to a tragic end. Which of these plays is a comic tragedy?
Romeo and Juliet
Blood Brothers
Cinderella
Macbeth
What is a raked stage?
It's a performance about gardening
It's a sloping stage, giving us the terms upstage and downstage
It is a stage which is covered with sand
It is a cleaning term used by theatre crews
What's the name of the thin, almost translucent material which is often used as a backdrop for LFX?
A scrim
A scram
A scrum
Ice cream
2 of these are elements of drama. Choose !
Plot
Ice cream
Queues for the toilets
Character
2 of these are elements of drama. Choose !
Tickets
Thought
Programme booklets
Diction
2 of these are drama elements. Choose!
Auditorium
Music
Interval
Spectacle
Who wrote the play script "Two"?
Shakespeare
Russell
Cartwright
Haddon
In the professional theatre, who has responsibility for ensuring the health and safety of the audience in the theatre?
The director
The emergency services
The technician
The theatre manager
When using a proscenium arch stage, which of the following is correct?
Actors always have to exit and enter through the audience
Audiences move around the set during the performance
The wings can help to conceal actors and enable entrances and exits
Audiences sit on the stage alongside the actors
What key areas should we look at when analysing an actor's performance?
Costume/make-up/props
Voice/body language/facial expression/proxemics/movement quality
Set/light/sound
What is a ghost light?
When the theatre is closed, a single light is left on the stage itself as a health and safety measure, so that nobody falls off the edge of the stage in darkness.
A candle carried by the theatre ghost
A very faint theatre lantern
When analysing the set of a live production, it is important to look at the following key factors
Sound, performance, audience interaction
Light, material, movement, function, effect, performer interaction, subtext
a detailed description of each scene and the set used
What is the term used when an actor speaks the character's internal thoughts to themselves?
Monologue
Soliloquy
Direct address
Dialogue is....
The lines spoken between two characters
Any form of communication between performers and also between performer and audience
Verbal communication
Breaking the fourth wall is...
An act of onstage vandalism
The deconstruction of the set after a show
Direct involvement of the audience to remind them they are watching a piece of theatre
Creating your own original performance work can often be based on an object, a poem, an image, an idea. This is called...
Divising
Devising
Taking a script and working on it from page to stage is called...
Improvising
Realising
Acting
Reading
