Theatre Basics
The direction you going if you move toward the audience.
What is downstage?
This is when an actor provides ideas, actions and circumstances to their scene partner.
What are offers?
Mr. Jarvis often says this to students who seem overly self-conscious during scenes.
What is Get Out of Your Head?
This diagram is a long used visual to help understand Dramatic Structure.
What is the Freytag Pyramid.
Employment tardiness.
What is Why Were You Late?
This is considered the central rule of improv.
What is, "yes, and...?"
This what we call it when improvisers create the basis for a scene.
These are the four platforming elements.
What is character (who), relationship, location (setting, where), and (introduction of) problem?
This is a transformative moment where the tone becomes more serious and/or the story spins in a new direction.
What is the Midpoint?
Talking columns.
What is Pillars?
This is what we call a scene that doesn't have enough action and/or the story isn't moving forward.
What is static?
Using pantomime to create things that aren't really there.
What is object work?
This is often described as the roller coaster of emotions that characters experience.
What is Hope vs. Fear?
What is The Dark Night of the Soul?
Human action figures.
What is Moving Bodies?
This is the positioning of players in relation to each other and the view of the audience.
What is staging?
A way for improvisers to make something unexpected in a scene make sense.
What is Justification?
A performer entering an improv scene in progress is called this.
What is Third Support?
The pinnacle of action.
What is the climax?
3 powered solutions.
What is Superhero Showdown?
These are the five elements of theatre.
What is audience, performers, playing space, dramatic structure and visual elements?
When improvisers set aside an established idea, object or other scene element.
What is Shelving?
This was Vermont's #1 improv troupe for more than thirty years.
What is Kamikaze Comedy?
This structural term is also a chemistry term.
What is Catalyst?
Intermittent Overacting.
What is Shatner?