Stanislavski’s System
The name for using objects or triggers to bring about a particular feeling from one’s past.
Emotional Recall
The main idea of the method is that actors can ________ themselves to respond to stimuli.
Train.
Stella Adler was primarily this, as opposed to being a director or methodologist.
Teacher
When an actor responds authentically to what is happening around them; generating dialogue and action that is unscripted.
Improvisation.
The actors in a play.
Cast
Melodrama
This was the part of Stanislavski’s system that Strasberg based his method on.
Emotional Recall.
Stella Adler was wary of this part of Stanislavski and Strasberg’s Methods.
Emotional Recall.
The exercise where actors respond authentically to a statement given by their scene partner (over and over again).
Repetition
Someone who finances and supervises the making of a show.
Producer
Describing what you would do IF you (as a person) were in the same situation as your character.
Magic If
What two things does a method actor need to balance awareness of?
The actor and the character.
The actors should use this to generate motivation.
Imagination
Meisner believes that choices should not be made until...
Something provokes the choice/action.
A class of art having a characteristic form or technique.
Genre
The goal that your character is trying to accomplish, or the reason that your character is saying/doing something.
Objective
These need to be removed in order to become a “blank slate.”
Physical Habits
Instead of depending solely on the director, actors should take it upon themselves to do this.
Act before they think.
The story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie, etc.
Plot
The two things that Stanislavski was focused on bringing to the stage.
Realism and Naturalism.
Using sense memory, actors are encouraged to _____________ an action without using an object/prop.
Replicate.
Adler believes that actors should use observations of the world to create depth of character, as opposed to this.
Reliving Emotions.
Actors remove the attention from themselves and place it here.
On their scene partner.
Actors
Players