Theatre - Exam

Theatre

It is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

Director

They control the artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the script written by the playwright. It is also their responsibility to unite various endeavors and aspects of a production.

Actors

They are the ones who portray character in a performance.

Production Manager

They create the production schedule, maintain contact information, prepare the budget and monitor expenses, working closely with the Directors and other Dept. Heads and ensure that everything are within the budget of the production. They also organize additional meetings for cast and production staff.

Scriptwriters

They create and write a book. They write the synopsis and character list.

Stage Managers

They are responsible for ensuring that theatrical performances run smoothly and to schedule. They call actors for rehearsals and performances. They supervise the ‘Get in’ to the Theater, and the ‘Get out’, when all the equipment is removed.

Costume and Props Designer

They are responsible for the visual appearance of the actors. The designs for theatrical costumes consist of colored sketches depicting the clothing and accessories that will be worn by the actor.

Production Designer

They create the scenery and the overall visual concept for the production. They translate the scenic design from the concept to the stage.

Sound Designer

They are responsible for obtaining ALL sound effects, whether recorded or live for a specific production.

Lighting Designer

They are responsible for the design, installation, and operation of the lighting and special electrical effects used in the production.

Musical Director

They oversee all musical aspects of a theatre production. They select music to perform, arrange performances and work with musicians to ensure that they perform well.

One Act Play

These were written and staged throughout the 18th and 19th centuries as “The Curtain Raisers” or “The After Pieces”. They were chiefly farcical and served to amuse the audience before the commencement of the actual drama or were staged for their amusement just after it had come to an end.

Cyclops

A play on the forest God, by Euripides, is an early example. It was great Norwegian dramatist Ibsen, who, for the first time, introduced the minute stage-directions into the one-act play.

George Bernard Shaw/ John Galsworthy

They are two of the greatest followers after the Euripides’ Cyclops.