Stage and Stage Directions
This is what the middle of the stage is called
Tableau comes from the French "Tableau Vivant', meaning this.
What is living pictures?
This is the rise and fall of your voice while you speak.
What is intonation?
This type of choral reading is one of the most common forms, where one person reads the narrative, while the rest join in for the chorus.
What is refrain?
This acting method has actors living like their character, drawing on physical sensation and re-experiencing their lives.
What is method acting?
When you are closest to the audience on stage, it is called this.
What is downstage?
A group of actors may use this in their scenes when they pose high and low.
What are levels?
Crescendo, decrescendo, and whispering all have to do with this in your voice.
What is volume?
This type of choral reading has everyone reading the material together.
What is unison?
This drama theorist believed that improvisation was the best way to get into character as it would lead to uncovering the emotional life of a role.
Who is Sanford Meisner?
This is the movement of actors on stage
What is blocking?
This is movement from one scene to another
What are transitions?
This means how fast or slow you are while speaking.
What is pace?
You need to read your lines without your script by doing this.
What is memorizing?
This acting method focuses on studying the script intensely, as well as studying the physical elements of the character. Stella Adler coined this approach.
What is the external approach?
The farthest part of the stage away from the audience is called this.
What is upstage?
This is the muscle contraction which begins or ends most movements in mime.
You can go high or low, or slide to change up this in your voice
What is pitch?
A part of a drama in which a single actor speaks alone with no one else on stage.
What is a soliloquy?
This acting method can be dangerous for some people as it requires them to draw on personal experiences similar to those of the character.
What is emotional memory?
You do this to your script when you are writing notes for movements and/or emotions.
What is scoring/marking?
He was a famous silent film star, also known for miming. He was in films such as The Immigrant.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
Name 3 other things to think about in a voice performance (aside from actually speaking).
What is emotion/repetition/sounds/blocking/movement/facial expressions/message?
This is the monologue that Ms. Sills used in class as an example.
What is To Be or Not To Be (Hamlet)?
This drama theorist believed in the Internal Acting approach, where they included 6 steps of investigation to understand a character better.
Who is Uta Hagen?