Vocab
Short and choppy.
What is staccato?
Long and fluid
What is Legato?
Plays can be _________ or ________.
What is Realistic or non-realistic?
Research aspects of your character that are _______ to you.
What is unknown?
Pay close attention to the ________ to figure out what your character does and WHY.
What are stage directions?
A play that imitates real life.
What is a realistic play?
A play in which the characters and/or event are exaggerated.
What is a nonrealistic play?
Actors must “______” their characters.
What is love?
The way the character speaks is likely to reflect that way the character ______.
What is move/moves?
You must attempt to live inside the character’s _______.
What is skin?
The term for when a character begins to speak.
What is cue pickup?
The imaginary wall through which the audience views the play.
What is the fourth wall?
In order to really understand drama, an actor must understand the importance of a play’s _______.
In order to really understand drama, an actor must understand the importance of a play’s structure.
As an actor onstage, you must understand and analyze the ________ and ________ of the play you’re performing.
What is style and genre?
A play’s plot is made up of a series of incidents linked by a ________.
What is a theme?
Information that is thought and felt but not stated by a character
What is the subtext?
A direct address approach in which the actor speaks directly to the audience.
What is presentational?
Five elements that follow the as they relate to the actor.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
Have a clear sense of what happened to your character before the ________ depicted in the play.
What is a events?
Fantasy, symbolic plays, romantic plays.
What are examples of non-realistic plays ?
The last few words of a character’s lines that precede another character’s lines.
What is a cue?
An indirect address approach, in which the actors seem “unaware” that the audience in watching through the fourth wall.
What is Representational?
By analyzing the elements of a story’s structure, the actor has important insight into the plot, the theme, and his/her character’s _________.
What is motivation?
You must _______,_______ and ______ with the character in order to bring life to the role.
What is respect, understand and empathize?
Remember that plays, like real life, are mostly about what isn’t ________.
What is said?