Deck 8: The Art of Directing

Question 1

If a director casts someone who physically matches the role,then she or he is...

A)Casting to type
B)Character casting
C)Character-neutral casting
D)Low-cost casting

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Directors often compose pictures to help reinforce the story.This is called...

A)Picture card scenes
B)Imagination moments
C)Pictorial blocking
D)Image staging
E)Picturization

Answer 2

E

Question 3

A common theatre adage says that 90 percent of directing is…

A)Script analysis
B)Devising the production concept
C)Picturization
D)Casting
E)Blocking

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The stage area to the audience's left is called…

Question 5

One of the greatest directors was Konstantin Stanislavsky.With which theatre is he associated?

Question 6

During rehearsals,the director helps the actors plot their movements.This is called...

Question 7

A director will divide dialogue into small structural units to understand the play moment by moment.What are these units called?

A)Beats
B)Minis
C)Minor moments
D)Scene subdivision

Question 8

Some would say that developing production concepts and casting are two of the most important contributions a director makes to the overall success of a production.Select three different plays and articulate as clearly and succinctly as you can the production concept,or thematic metaphor,or primary symbol of that play.

Question 9

Which of the following is not a method directors use to achieve focus?

A)Matching focus
B)Levels
C)Contrast
D)Triangulation

Question 10

This is the metaphor,thematic idea,symbol,or allegory that will be central to the whole production.

A)Artistic vision
B)Play proposal
C)Production concept
D)Allegorical art
E)Thematic design notion

Question 11

A director will sometimes divide a script into units that begin whenever a character enters or exits and continues until the next entrance or exit.What is this unit called?

A)The denotation of the play
B)E and E unit
C)Stage paragraph
D)French scene
E)Change of scene list

Question 12

The plays of creative directors are sometimes called __________ because the director's artistic vision dominates.

Question 13

Which type of director attempts to translate the play from the page to the stage as accurately and faithfully as possible?

A)Movie directors
B)Theatre directors
C)Precise directors
D)Interpretive directors
E)Creative directors

Question 14

Known as one of the first modern directors,this man not only directed the actors but also ruled them as their official head of state.

A)King Charles II
B)The Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
C)Emperor Ch'ien-lung
D)Lord Ming Huang
E)Emperor Constantine

Question 15

Actors who take focus when they aren't supposed to are said to be doing what?

Question 16

This member of the ensemble is a literary advisor and theatre-history expert who assists the directors,designers,and actors in better understanding the text.

A)Stage manager
B)B.S.E.(back stage expert)
C)S.A.(structural analyst)
D)Assistant director
E)Dramaturg

Question 17

What are the primary responsibilities of a director? Use one of the plays you have read as a way by which to illustrate each of your points.