Basics of Performance
Is important for an actor to build believable characters because it calls on them to become aware of how different people feel, move, speak, think, and behave.
What is Observation?
Interacting with another actor onstage while maintaining an open position towards the audience is referred to as this.
What is Cheating Out?
Refers to a character's outward appearance and includes posture, movement, mannerisms, voice, and mode of dress.
What is External Traits?
A long narrative poem that told the story of legendary Greek heros and their travels and exploits.
What is an Epic?
A layout of the set from above that provides a bird's-eye view of the scenic elements.
What is a Ground Plan?
The best known form of traditional Japanese theatre.
What is Kabuki?
This refers to an actor getting lost in a scene or forgetting their lines.
What is Going Up?
An actor's specific reason for doing or saying something and answers the question, "Why do I want something?"
What is Motivation?
DAILY DOUBLE: The setup of the play and tells us the three W's; Where, Who, What.
What is the Exposition?
Uses periaktoi, or three-sided flats, that are mounted on triangular shaped, wheeled platforms that are rotated to change scene locations.
What is a Prism Set?
The positioning and movement of the body that reflects a person's thoughts and feelings.
What is Body Language?
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago is a theatre group that works only as a this.
What is Ensemble?
Refers to what a character implies or means.
What is Subtext?
The disassembling or deconstruction of the production after the show has closed.
What is the Strike?
A metal sheet with a cut out design that can be placed inside an ERS to produce a patterned effect.
What is a Gobo?
DAILY DOUBLE: The most successful improv group that was formed in Chicago, Illinois.
What is the Second City?
The Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, Greece was the west's first public theatron, meaning this.
What is Seeing Place?
What is High Comedy?
A concrete image used to represent an abstract concept or principle.
What is a Symbol?
A director, designer, puppet master, and writer best known for her costume designs for Disney's The Lion King Musical and the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.
Who is Julie Taymor?
Artist and teacher best known for producing Kabuki versions of classics such as Shakespeare's Macbeth and Othello.
Who is Shozo Sato?
A Canadian circus formed in 1984 that incorporates theatre, circus, street performance, costumes, and high-tech lighting and sound.
What is Cirque du Soleil?
A type of play that focuses on cliff-hanging action and tugs on the heartstrings whose purpose is to create great suspense and excitement in the audience.
What is Melodrama?
A form of blocking that communicates a play's meaning to the audience and emphasizes important characters, moments, or objects during the play.
What is Functional Movement?
A heavy curtain hung across the stage that may be used to adjust the height of the proscenium opening or to mask the lights or unused scenery.
What is a Teaser?