Stagecraft

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  1. 3. An artist who designs dances for the stage.
  2. 5. The person who develops a lighting concept and design for a production.
  3. 7. The person who oversees the business details of a theatrical production.
  4. 9. The person who develops the concept for the theatre setting.
  5. 10. The person who designs the outfits to build, rent, borrow, or buy for a production.
  6. 11. The three main types of medieval European drama were the mystery play, the miracle play, and the morality play.
  7. 15. Rabindranath Tagore was the first modern Indian dramatist to achieve a worldwide reputation, receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
  8. 18. The playwright of Hamilton
  9. 19. Mainly a comic form before World War II, American musical theatre achieved a new maturity in 1943 with Oklahoma! by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. This production began the Golden Age of the Broadway musical.
  10. 20. the person who must give a consistently great performance each time they step on the stage.
  11. 21. The greatest playwright in the English language, Shakespeare was also an actor-manager of a professional company. He wrote to be performed; the script was only important until the actors knew their lines.
  12. 22. An actor playing Heather Chandler
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  1. 1. The person who provides the words and story for a production.
  2. 2. The director of Wicked
  3. 4. The costume designer of Mean Girls
  4. 6. B.C. Expressing the rhythms of life and common to all humanity, dance is a probable origin of theatre.
  5. 8. The director’s technical liaison backstage during rehearsals and performances.
  6. 12. The most ambitious film versions of Shakespeare in the 1990’s have come from British actor/director Kenneth Branagh who has directed and starred in Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet.
  7. 13. The producer of Hades Town
  8. 14. Perhaps the most influential company in theatre history, the Moscow Art Theatre was founded by Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko in 1898.
  9. 16. The person who oversees the entire process of staging a production.
  10. 17. The first playhouse in the American colonies was built in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1716.