Movement
Taught in using every muscle in the body to tell the story.
Who is Jerzy Grotowski (Gross how he moves every muscle!)
How many steps in Uta Hagen's program for character development?
9
Sought for social change through performance by reminding people that entertainment is not life.
Berthold Brecht (Break out for entertainment)
Glass Cobra
Augusto Boal
Total Acting is using all you know and giving it a go, including listening and being ready for your turn. Interruptions cause different motivations and fuel the character, causing different methods to be necessary.
Robert (Bobby) Lewis
Anne Bogart's ensemble building using energy motivation.
What is Viewpointing or "walking the grid"
How many guideposts does Shurtleff propose for building character?
12
Created the beginnings of "Method Acting" used by many famous actors (Leo DeCaprio/Heath Ledger)
Memories/Experiences/Justification stressed to push the character into being.
Lee Strasberg (he stressed acting)
Using imagination creating the physical world around you based off of the clues in the script (dramaturgy) was a style created by who? Wandering the stage and imagining based on research.
Stella Adler (creating her own stories)
Concentration, Emotion, Action, Character, Observation, Rhythm - were all pulled together by which acting theorist?
Richard Boleslavski
Removing yourself from your body and watching "Spiritually" as the character tells the story was who's idea?
Michael Chekhov (Check off of your body)
We create our character by playing and then incorporating our discoveries into our acting is who's theory?
Viola Spolin (Spoilin' the children)
Augusto Boal incorporated familiar stories with alternative endings to better his community. What is the name of the game?
Spect-Acting & Forum/Legislative Theatre
Repetition - having a preparation and an activity, then repeating the lines at the knock, helps to build the character's emotion and purpose. Focus on creating the 'Given Circumstances'
Sanford Meisner (repeat that, old meiser)
The theorist who created all the rules but then said, in the end, just to ignore all training and do your best.
"Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you."
Konstantin Stanislavski
Stanislavski felt that movement should be motivated by what?
The Objective
Digging deep into emotions to pull sincere connections to characters caused a riff between which two people?
Strasberg & Adler
Which three things does Suzuki discuss to not only create a full character but to be aware of for a better life?
Body, Language, Group
Uta Hagen introduced 9 steps to creating a character. One of these incorporates "the Moment Before". What activity helps us to apply this idea?
Three Entrances
Style of theatre promoting social and political change where ideas are presented as written but altered by the audience. Promoted by both Berthold Brecht AND Augusto Boal.
Theatre of the Oppressed.
The focus on instinct, inner impulse, and simplicity was the core of who's style? (Counting off and listening)
Robert (Bobby) Lewis (Don't 'lose' count)
Which theorist has used connections between emotional response and personal behaviors to help people know how to act in social settings? Unpacking their past so they know how to react.
Eric Morris (More is better)
Artistic Truth through observing others, playing the dramatic action, and keeping rhythms.
Richard Boleslavski (put all the acting ingredients in the bowl)
Michael Shurtleff created guideposts and number 12 is "I have a secret" - what is this?
Consider your partner and your situation. Discover a secret, keep it a secret, but let it add drive and intensity to the scene as though you want to tell it but can’t.
Who got into trouble for encouraging the use of past experiences to promote honest responses? (There are two.)
Eric Morris AND Lee Strasberg