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the playing space on three sides. Like a thrust stage, scenery primarily
background.
Arena Theatre:
A central stage surrounded by audience on all sides. The stage area
is often raised to improve sightlines.
Flexible theatre:
Sometimes called a "Black Box" theatre, these are often big empty
boxes painted black inside. Stage and seating not fixed. Instead, each
can be altered to suit the needs of the play or the whim of the director.
Profile Theatres:
Often used in "found space" theatres, i.e. converted from other
spaces.
The Audience is often placed on risers to either side of the playing
space, with little or no audience on either end of the "stage". Actors are
staged in profile to the audience. It is often the most workable option
for long, narrow spaces.
Scenically, is most like the arena stage; some background staging
possible at ends, which are essentially sides. A non-theatrical form of
the profile stage is the basketball arena, if no-one is seated behind the
hoops.
Sports Arenas:
Sports arenas often serve as venues for Music Concerts. In form
they resemble very large arena stage (more accurately the arena stage
resembles a sports arena), but with a retangular floorplan. When used
for concert, a temporary stage area is set up as an end stage at one end
of the floor, and the rest of the floor and the stands become the audience. Arenas have their own terminology; see below.
Parts of a Proscenium Theatre:
The Proscenium is the defining element of proscenium theatre, basi-
cally a big picture frame dividing acting space from audience. All directions defined according to this division of the space by proscenium.
Stage directions are given from the viewpoint of an actor center
stage facing the audience, Stage Left is the actors left, Stage Right to
the actor's right. Downstage is towards the audience, Upstage is towards the back wall of the stage. The Plaster Line (PL) is a line running from the back of one side of the proscenium arch to the other proscenium. The Center Line (CL) runs upstage/downstage half way between prosceniums and perpendicular to the Plaster Line.
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Everything downstage of the Plaster line is called Front of House,
or FOH. Occassionally it is also called "Ante-proscenium" which
means "before the proscenium". Anything the audience can see on the
stage is on-stage. Anything on the stage but out of the audience view is
off-stage or backstage. Wings are the sides of the stage, and the Fly
Loft or Scene House is the space above the stage. The floor is called
the Deck.
The part of the stage in from of the Proscenium is the Apron, or
sometimes the Thrust. The Audience seating is the Auditorium or the
House.
The Stage is usually set up at the Loading Dock end of the building for ease of setup. Opposite the stage is Front of House or FOH,
sometimes called "Sound World", as the Mixing consoles are located
here. Standard stage directions are usually used (Stage Right, Stage
Left, Downstage, Upstage, etc.). The Monitor mixer often go SL in
"Monitor World", and lighting dimmers go SR in "Dimmer Beach".
The main floor at the Reisch Center is designed as a hockey rink, and is
surrounded by a protective wall called a Dasher, even during concerts.
Seating is located on the main floor between the Stage and FOH, and
also in the bleachers. Audience entrances from the concourses (lobby
areas) into the seating bowl are called VOMs, short for "Vomitories",
the old Roman name for such entrances.
ЗАДАНИЯ
I. BRISTOL OLD VIC STAGING PIRATE SHIP SHOW
Section one. Conveying meaning
1. Warmer
1. Are you a theatre-goer?
2. Do you remember your last visit to the theatre?
3. What famous theatres of Russia do you know?
4. Do you know any British theatres?
5. Have you ever visited any unusual or even extraordinary pro-
ductions and plays?
2. Key words. 1) Match the words in column 1 that you will hear
in the report with their definitions in column 2. Add the words to your
working vocabulary.
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stock
company
a time when all the people in a play, concert etc practise
before a public performance
Rehearsal
the final practice of a play, opera etc, using all the clothes,
objects etc that will be used for the actual performance
facade
the front of a building, especially a large and important one
dress
rehearsal
when someone performs a play or a piece of music
run
happening or existing outdoors
performance
a group of actors who work together doing several different
plays
set
the painted background, furniture etc used on a stage in a play
or in the place where a film or television show is being made
open-air
to continue being performed regularly in one place
production run audience stage set access façade rehearsals brave
2) Look at some words in the box you will hear in the report. Read
the sentences, then put the missing words into position.
The __ will __ from 7 July to 26 August and King Street will be
closed to traffic during show times.
An __ of up to 500 will be seated on three sides of the __.
The giant vessel is the radical __ for a new, open-air production.
Actors have __ to its upper deck via the first floor windows of the
Old Vic’s Palladian __.
__ are taking place in a nearby harbour shed.
Public __ the rain and wind.
Section two. Checking understanding
3. Listening. Listen to the report “Pirates and a pirate ship take
over the Bristol Old Vic” at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englandbristol-14068320.
4. Comprehension check. 1) Read the questions and statements
below, and then choose the best answer for each question
1) What is the major transformation of Bristol Old Vic?
– They`ve managed to incorporate a street light in these sets / The
stage is brought outside / A ship had been dragged up the street from
the sea.
2) How many parking bays does the 50ft-long ship take?
– Nine / Eight / Five.
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3) How much does each bay cost a day?
– 28 pounds / 38 dollars / 48 roubles
4) What is the biggest challenge of the open-air theatre?
– The public / The ship / The weather
5) What did the audience do when it began raining?
– Rushed home / Asked to put off the show / Braved it out.
2) Listen to the report sentence by sentence, then fill in the gaps
with the words you can hear.
1) It is just what`s happened here in the Bristol ___ for their ___ of
“Treasure Island”.
2) They`ve even managed to ____ a street light in these ___.
3) However in ___ summer time there is the list of their ___.
4) If the weather is ___ we have a fantastic week.
5) So far so good during today there is a __ __.
6) The 50ft ship has been built ___ against the ___ of the theatre.
7) Actors ___ the stage through the first flour windows.
8) ___ outside is a new ___ of the adventure.
9) But with true English __ ___ ___ invited audience __ ___ ___.
10) The production __ __ __ next week and ___ until the end of
August.
5. Language: synonyms. Match the words in column 1 with the
synonyms in column 2.
Audience – auditory – public
Production – performance – show
Open-air – street
Set – scenery
Stage – platform
6. Reading. Read the following article from “The Telegraph”
devoted to the topic which was discussed in the report.
Treasure Island at Bristol Old Vic: “To the car park, me
hearties!”
Wednesday 07 September 2011
Walk down King Street in the heart of Bristol and you’ll find a
ship in it. Moored right in front of the foyer of the Old Vic theatre, the
giant vessel is the radical set for a new, open-air production based on
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. It’s being staged in the street
because the theatre inside is undergoing a £20 million renovation.
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The ship, a re-creation of the Hispaniola, is the work of designer
Philip Eddolls. Actors have access to its upper deck via the first floor
windows of the Old Vic’s Palladian façade. An audience of up to 500
will be seated on three sides of the stage and the road closed to traffic
during performances. If it rains – tough. That’s the high seas for you.
It will be true street theatre. The 50ft-long ship takes up nine parking bays (each at a daily cost to the theatre of £28) and a lamppost juts
up through the stage. The lower decking will serve as the harbour,
shoreline and stockade. There will be palm trees, barrels and assorted
gubbins visible. Rehearsals are taking place in a nearby harbour shed.
Inside, I met the ship’s cook, Long John Silver, the excellent Tristan
Sturrock, who grew up on Bodmin Moor and is giving Silver a Cornish
accent to go with the crutch and parrot.
“I am finding my inner pirate as I go,” he says. “I suppose Robert
Newton [who played Silver in the Disney adaptation and invented the
“arrr, matey!” pirate stereotype] does hang over the role a bit. But I
want to really look to what’s in the book. It’s a revelation to find Silver’s moral stance shifts throughout. He’s a real charmer who flips
from being a father figure to someone totally out for himself. You never
quite know whether he’s on Jim’s [Hawkins] side or not.”
What about the leg? Wooden stump or a trouser tourniquet?
“Mmm… we’re still not sure about that,” he says. “In the book it’s
inconsistent. His leg is chopped off at the waist, sometimes it’s
wooden, sometimes it’s just missing – it changes. But I will be hopping
about somehow, using the crutch as a weapon, and I’ll be covered in
parrot guano.” The squawking Captain Flint will be operated by
puppeteers.
7. Comprehension check. 1) Check your ability to explain the
following concepts in English and add them to your working
vocabulary: King Street, Bristol, the Old Vic, Robert Louis Stevenson,
Treasure Island, Hispaniola, Palladian façade, Captain Flint, Jim
Hawkins.
2) Explain what is meant by: a set, a foyer, an open-air production,
a façade, an audience, a stage, a performance, a rehearsal, to hang over
the role, puppeteers.
3) Answer the following questions:
What can you find walking down King Street in the heart of
Bristol?
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How many people can be seated around the stage?
part
a room or building where tools and machines are used for
making or repairing things.
tackle
someone whose job is to decide on how set, pictures,
photographs etc will look on the stage.
the boards
someone who writes plays
work of art
to try to deal with a difficult problem
workshop
a painting, sculpture etc of high quality
artistic
director
words and actions of a particular character in a play or film
playwright
the stage in a theatre
original
the part of a theatre where people sit when watching a play,
concert etc
Where do the rehearsals take place?
Why is Tristan Sturrock interested in his part?
Have you ever visited any unusual or even extraordinary
productions or plays or shows?
Section three. Consolidation and creative work
8. Writing. Summarize the information presented in the report
you`ve listened and the article you`ve read. Render your summary
emphasizing in it (a)its subject matter, (b) the facts discussed, (c) the
author`s and reporter`s points of view.
9. Class Project. Find some information about some other unusual
or even extraordinary productions and plays. Make up a power point
presentation. The following sites can be useful:
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatre
http://www.theatrehistory.com/
http://www.bolshoi.ru/ru/
II. ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATER MIXES OLD
WITH NEW
1. Warmer. Answer the questions:
Who was William Shakespeare?
What do you know about Royal Shakespeare Theater?
2. Key words.1) Match the words in column 1 that you will hear
in the report with their definitions in column 2. Add the words to your
working vocabulary.
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churchyard
existing or happening first, before other people or things
auditorium
something that makes you admire the thing because it is very
good, large, important etc
impressive
a piece of land around a church where people are buried
Churchyard, tackle, work of art, playwright, auditorium, impressive, original,
workshop, the boards.
2) Look at some words in the box you will hear in the report. Read
the sentences, then put the missing words into position.
– For several days he used to shut himself up in his workshop and
toil in silence.
– Only a brilliant playwright could create such a superb play.
– There is more than one way to tackle the problem.
– That sculpture is a real work of art!
– Could someone take the part of Romeo, please?
– When he entered the auditorium the performance had already
begun.
– The hall still has many original features and parts that were there
when the house was first built.
– Among the guests was an impressive array of authors and critics.
– Is he buried at this churchyard.
3. Listening. Listen to the report “Royal Shakespeare Theater
Mixes Old With New” from http://www.voanews.com/eng-
lish/news/arts-and-entertainment/Royal-Shakespeare-Theater-MixesOld-with-New--111604424.html.
4. Comprehension check. 1) Read the questions and statements
below and choose the best answer for each question:
What is Michael Boyd?
– artistic director
– Executive director
– playwright
What does Michael Boyd say?
– Reading gets children up on their feet rather than acting out the
parts
– It is important to introduce the playwright's work to children
when they are young.
– Don`t Tackle children as they're fazed by 17th century English.
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How long has The Royal Shakespeare Company been in the
English town of Stratford-Upon-Avon?
– since 1932.
– The theater has been here since the 19th century.
– For 450 years
What is going on in the exhibition room upstairs?
– There is an amalgamation of the remains of the original 19th
century Victorian theater and the Art Deco building.
– There is a theater workshop of the newly renovated Royal
Shakespeare Theater.
– There is a digital experience where visitors' comments about
Shakespeare are projected onto the wall.
What does the renovated theater represent?
– It represents a blend of the old 19th and the new 20th century
theater building.
– It represents a modern well equipped building.
– It represents an absolutely new building which didn`t preserve
any old features.
What does the new complex include?
– the Art Deco building
– the churchyard
– a new viewing tower.
2) Listen to the report sentence by sentence, then fill in the gaps
with the words you hear.
a) British schoolchildren in a ___ ___ on the stage of the newly
___ Royal Shakespeare Theater in the English town of Stratford-UponAvon.
b) “___ them when they're 8 and they're still learning new
vocabulary and they're not ___ by 17th century English, not one bit of
it, it's just new ___ words to learn and hurl at each other.”
c) Boyd says the workshops ___ up on their feet and acting out the
___ rather than just reading them.
d) “If you face them with Shakespeare as a great work of ___,
they'll ___ a mile, and they'll feel inadequate, but if you give them a
chance to be those ___, then they'll run ___ ___ ___.”
e) “The ___ is a really, really important time for us, we are out
there, we're on Twitter, we're on Facebook.
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f) I think people do still __ __ the experience where they come
together, you know whether it's a football game or whether it's coming
to the theater, people do love the ___ ____”
g) It's a living, ___ word sculpture.
h) The ___ are now the floor of the ___.
i) “Not one member of the ___ can come into this ___ without
stepping on the same boards as Laurence Olivier or Vivien Leigh.”
j) The complex includes a new ___ ___ with impressive
views ___ Shakespeare's home town.
k) In the distance is the ___ where the world's most
famous ___ was buried 450 years ago, whose work ___ ___.
3) Check your ability to explain the following concepts in English.
The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon, 19th
century Victorian theater, the 1932 Art Deco building, Laurence Olivier
or Vivien Leigh.
4) Explain what is meant by:
Run a mile, run away with it, original stage, digital age, long for,
live experience.
5) Answer the questions based on today’s report which was about
the completion of a new building.
– What new building was the report about? What is it for?
– Which building was completed?
– Where is it and what is it for?
– What features does it include?
– Where will the greatest effect be felt?
– What features of the new building were mentioned?
– What did you know or learnt about Shakespeare?
– What did the report say about children and Shakespeare?
5. Writing. Summarize the information presented in the report
you`ve listened. Render your summary emphasizing in it (a)its subject
matter, (b) the facts discussed, (c) the author`s and reporter`s points of
view, (d) your own commentary to the author`s treatment of the subject.
6. Discussion. 1) The report discussed Shakespeare and live plays.
What other types of live shows or entertainment are there? Live shows
meaning being entertained by other people performing.
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Types of live
shows or en-
tertainment
Where do
they take
place?
Who is in them?
Examples
Plays
Theater
Actors / Actresses
Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and
Juliet
Musicals
Theater
Singers
Musicians
Actors / Actresses
Cats
Lion King
Phantom of the
Opera
Rock shows,
concerts, gigs,
festivals
Arenas, theaters, stadiums, large
outdoor spaces
Rock bands,
Musicians
Singers
Dancers
Famous festivals in the UK
are at Glastonbury, or at
Reading
Comedy
shows
Small
theaters,
Arenas
Comedians
Mr Bean
Circus
Large tent
Clowns,
Trapeze artists
Animals of different
kinds
Jugglers
Tightrope walkers
Cirque de Soleil
2) Which of these types of live shows have you attended?
– When, where, who was in them?
– What happened? Were they enjoyable?
– Who did you go with? How much did they cost?
3) The report mentioned that the Royal Shakespeare Company
used Facebook and Twitter. What are these? Do you use them?
a) What types of digital entertainment do you access and like? Tell
us about them.
b) What do you think about social networking sites like Facebook?
Are they a good thing? Are there any dangers with them? Are they
stopping face to face meetings etc? Should children use them?
c) How do you think digital entertainment will develop in the future?
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