picking a play analyze your audience who will audition? look at the technical elements cast-size
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Elements of Play Production
Picking a play
•Analyze your audience•Who will audition?•Look at the technical elements•Cast-size
Auditions:Cattle-callSight/cold-readMonologue
Call-backs
Casting Terms:Double castingType castingCallboardUnderstudy
Rehearsals: NOT called play practice
Warm-upsRead- throughsBlockingWalk-throughsWork-throughsLine bash/Off bookRun-throughsTechnical rehearsalsDress rehearsals
Stage Etiquette15 minutes earlyMeet “off-book” deadlinesNo eating/drinking in costumePrepared: script, pencil, paper
SHOW TIME!The evening of the shows:Call-time- costume, makeup, and warmups“Places”Show timeCurtain callPhoto callMeet and Greet
StrikeOnce the show is over, within the next week
the cast and crew stay behind and “strike,” or take down, the set.