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Parts of the Stage & Body Positions
'The Voice'
Stages and other 'S' words
Mr. Nolan
100
When an actor plays in a more open position than complete
realism would permit.
What is Cheating?
100
The name for this stage position.
Audience
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Audience
What is Center?
100
How loud or how soft an actor speaks.
What is Volume?
100
A stage related fear typically experienced by everyone.
What is Stage Fright?
100
Mr. Nolan's first name.
What is Tommy?
200
When an actor performs an action without motivation or an intention.
What is Indicating?
200
This body position:
What is 1/4 Left?
200
This man.
Who is Cee Lo?
200
This is the primary source for characterization.
What is the Script?
200
Where Mr. Nolan went to college.
What is Illinois State University?
300
When an actor uses exaggerated facial expressions.
What is Mugging?
300
The name for this stage position.
Audience
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Audience
What is Up Right? (UR)
300
The highness and lowness of an actor's voice.
What is Pitch?
300
This type of interpretation is the responsibility of everybody involved in the production (not just the director).
What is Script Interpretation?
300
The color of Mr. Nolan's socks today.
What is Dark or Navy Blue?
400
When an actor takes the audience's attention away from the intended focal point.
What is Upstaging?
400
This body position:
What is 3/4 Left?
400
This communicates the mood and meaning of literature.
What is Oral Interpretation?
400
This is incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect. (And has nothing to do with finances.)
What is Stage Business?
400
This is what Mr. Nolan thinks is "the most important thing."
What is "the way we treat each other?"
500
The director’s arrangement of the actors’ movements on stage with respect to one another and the stage space
What is Blocking?
500
The name for this stage position.
Audience
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Audience
What is Down Center?
500
This is the most effective method for stage speech production.
What is Diaphragmatic Breathing?
500
Some of the questions on the exit exam are "a load of" this S-word.
What is 'Shiznat?'
500
Mr. Nolan wakes up at this time every morning.
What is 5:30am?