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The prompter (sometimes prompt) in a theatre is a person who prompts or cues actors when they forget their lines or neglect to move on the stage to where they are supposed to be situated. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The role of the souffleur, or prompter, reaches back to the medieval theater, [ 4 ] but has disappeared in countries like Britain, the ...
Pages from the American actress Charlotte Cushman's prompt-book for a production of Hamlet at the Washington Theater, 1861. The prompt book, also called transcript, the bible or sometimes simply the book, is the copy of a production script that contains the information necessary to create a theatrical production from the ground up.
This is a list of catchphrases found in American and British english language television and film, where a catchphrase is a short phrase or expression that has gained usage beyond its initial scope. These are not merely catchy sayings.
Screenwriters either pitch original ideas to producers, in the hope that they will be optioned or sold; or are commissioned by a producer to create a screenplay from a concept, true story, existing screen work or literary work, such as a novel, poem, play, comic book, or short story.
DOS line-editor. It can be used with a script file, like debug, this makes it of some use even today. The absence of a console editor in MS-DOS/PC DOS 1–4 created an after-market for third-party editors. In DOS 5, an extra command "?" was added to give the user much-needed help.
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The script for A Double-Threaded Life derived from actors' suggestions—the actors being the people of Hinton, West Virginia, a city of less than 3,000 in rural Summers County, West Virginia. One such actor was a local fisherman who improvised a scene based on a short script about fishing, a favorite pastime in that part of Appalachia.
Free writing is traditionally regarded as a prewriting technique practiced in academic environments, in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time with limited concern for rhetoric, conventions, and mechanics, sometimes working from a specific prompt provided by a teacher. [1]