vocabulary
the actors in a play
What is a cast
The secret of a healthy and powerful voice is strength with out this.
What is strain?
A technique where the actor will need to know the entire plot and what happens before and after the scene to be memorized.
What is whole-part memorization?
This is very personal.
What is acting?
This is what pictures do.
What is tell a story?
light humorous drama with a happy ending
What is a comedy
Voice is one of two tools an actor has to reach the audience. This tool is the second.
What is the Body?
Your teacher hopes she will not notice this during any performance.
What is memorization trouble.
This is the key to a polite audience.
What is quietness? or A quiet audience.
Up is away from the audience. This is toward the audience.
What is down?
the decisive moment in a novel or play
What is the climax
The type of breathing that is best for Actors and Singers.
What is diaphragmatic breathing?
An actor needs an Enthusiastic, confident one of these to begin a scene.
What is an approach?
The second rule of theater.
What is to stay on task?
This type of stage seats the audience all the way around the stage. Actors must enter and exit through the audience.
What is theater in the round?
Allowing the audience's response to begin dying away before continuing
What is holding for a laugh
These are the four properties of Tone.
What are strength,pitch,time,and quality?
This necessary element of performance is often confused with loudness and bigness.
What is Energy?
In order to perform their best actors must feel this about their environment.
What is safe or comfortable?
This theater is the most common style of theater used today.
What is a proscenium theater?
an uninterrupted rehearsal
what is a run-through
Making the sound created by your vocal folds louder and stronger.
What is Resonation.
A script is ready to perform when it feels like this.
What is second nature?
Try, Consider, Maybe, and Perhaps are examples of these critiquing words.
What are suggestive words?
In Greek Audio means to hear. Theatre was a place for this.
What is seeing?