Line Please!
Stage Directions
What's my motivation?
More acting
Watch and Listen!
100
The line stated in order to silence the audience's laughter...
What is "cut-in" line?
100
NE, NW, SE, SW; or 1, 2, 3, 4; or A, B, C, D...
What are quadrants?
100
The hidden meaning that lies "between the lines"...
What is subtext?
100
The impromptu portrayal of a character without any preparation...
What is improvisation?
100
To extract the maximum response from the audience...
What is milk?
200
Lines that actors trail off rather than finishing...
What is fade-off lines?
200
Thomas should stand at four o'clock and cross to nine o'clock when Mark is at twelve o'clock..
What is clock reference?
200
Cockney is an example of this...
What is dialect?
200
The type of character that lacks confidence and tends to be fearful, intimidated, or confused...
What is "pitch up" character?
200
The voice modulation used when one is surprised, shocked, or asking questions...
What is rising inflection?
300
Purposefully appearing to be ignorant of any information from the later part of the play...
What is "forgetting what you know"?
300
The type of stage completely surrounded by the audience...
What is arena stage?
300
Extremely important lines that everyone in the audience must hear...
What are key lines?
300
Lines interrupted by another character...
What are cut-off lines?
300
The voice modulation that signals the end of a statement...
What is falling inflection?
400
The method for learning lines in which the actor learns each line separately until the actor's entire part is learned...
What is part-whole memorization?
400
The type of stage that is surrounded on three sides by the audience and has a back wall...
What is thrust stage?
400
Stating your lines in your own words...
What is paraphrasing?
400
The type of character that is self-assured, dominating, authoritative, and overbearing...
What is "pitch down character"?
400
The voice modulation that suggests calmness, decisiveness, or steadiness of purpose...
What is sustained inflection?
500
The method for learning lines in which the actor begins by reading through the whole play several times...
What is whole-part memorization?
500
The fading and swelling of the audience's laughter...
What is laugh curve?
500
Delivering a line that surpasses the hilarity of the line just spoken...
What is topping?
500
A technique in which an actor recalls a personal experience in order to capture the emotional response called for in a scene...
What is substitution?
500
The voice modulation in which a vowel is stressed to sound like two vowels to change the meaning of a word or to stress a particular meaning...
What is circumflex inflection?
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