What is a Cue?
The last words, actions or technical effect that immediately precedes any line or business; a stage signal.
A tryout for a position or role in a play.
What is Improvisation?
The impromptu portrayal of a character or a scene without any rehearsal or preparation.
What is a Motivation?
The reason behind a character's behavior.
What happens onstage to hold the audience's attention?
(One word)
Action!
A distinctive action that is repeated and serves as a clue to a character's personality!
(A repeated action done by one character exclusively)
What is the Fourth Wall?
what is it called when someone uses ALL the methods, including physical or mental acts or objects, to reach the goals of a character/characters.
What is playing the objectives?
What is Emotional Acting?
The playing of a role in such a way that the actor weeps, suffers, or struggles emotionally; also called Subjective Acting.
(Acting by using overwhelming feelings or emotions to effectively portray a character)
Describe/explain what Fade-off lines are?
Lines that actors trail off rather than finishing.
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What is a Dress Rehearsal?
An uninterrupted rehearsal with costumes and props; the final rehearsal before the first performance.
(The final rehearsals with costumes and props before opening night)
What does it mean to be Playing the conditions?
Interpreting characters with the help of the elements of time, place, weather, objects, and the state of the individual.
(Using elements to interpret characters)
What is Emotional Memory?
The recalling of specific emotions, such as fear, joy or anger; a technique used by actors in developing characterization.
What are Cut-off lines in a script?
Lines that are interrupted by another speaker or another objective. Oftentimes/always indicated in the script by dashes.
Describe Intention?
The inner force driving a character's behavior
To improvise stage business or conversation, especially when an actor has missed or forgotten lines and other actors must supply the missing information.
Responding to each line, action, and character in the permanent present is called?
What is Playing the moment?
What is Dialogue in a script?
The lines of a play spoken by characters.
(Speech made by characters)
What is a Beat?
One unit of text denoting the beginning and end of an action.
The practice of putting oneself in the action as if it were really happening.
What is Magic If?
The part of acting that involves the use of hand props, costume props, stage props, other actors and parts of the set (doors, windows, lighting fixtures)
What is it called when a character faces each crisis or obstacle that stand in the way of an objective of the character?
What is playing the obstacles?
What is the selection and pronunciation of words and their combinations in speech?
What is Diction?
What is the Illusion of the first time?