Occurs when the final conflict in a production is resolved.
What is the denouement?
100
According to Bernard Beckerman, plays should be broken down into segments which are characterized as either of these.
What is active and reactive?
100
Refers to the methods and materials from which an actor draws his or her ability to perform.
What is the acting process?
200
Applying tape to the stage floor during rehearsal to identify the space upon which scenery will later be placed.
What is marking out?
200
The character in a scene exerting energy.
Who is the impelling agent?
200
The choice of words that an actor uses to express him/herself.
What is diction?
200
The four most agreed upon qualities necessary for an actor.
What are relaxation, concentration, imagination and observation?
200
A technique in which an actor reactivates a past experience to gain the emotional and psychological feelings associated with those events and then transferring them to a performance; used when the actor believes the character they are portraying is undergoing an event that emotionally parallels that which the actor experienced in real life.
What is affective memory?
300
A pyrotechnic device that can create a loud explosive sound.
What is a maroon?
300
The goal to which the character is exerting energy to achieve.
What is the project?
300
The physical location of the stage that is closest to the audience.
What is downstage?
300
Ancient dramatists, including Shakespeare and Moliere, considered this when creating characters.
Who are the specific actors who would play the roles?
300
Defined by Michael Chekov as the inherent energy within a specific place; actors may imagine they are in a specific location while performing in order to depict the corresponding emotions and actions that would best suit that environment.
What is atmosphere?
400
Material, neutral in color and used both to define a performance area and to hide technical areas.
What is masking?
400
The obstacles the impelling agent encounters.
What is resistance?
400
A specialist in theatre who may called upon to advise actors, directors, and producers in certain aspects of theatrical productions.
Who is the dramaturg?
400
He introduced Francois Delsarte's work to the United States.
Who is Steele Mackaye?
400
Occurs when an actor must make a change to their physical person in order to perform a role; may include the use of dialect or accents that are not part of the actor's real persona or using stage makeup to create a specific facial disfigurement.
What is character acting?
500
Gives the effect of a rising moon by using a shallow round box with low wattage lamps covered by thin cloth.
What is a moon box?
500
The point at which it becomes clear whether the resistance or the project will prevail AND the change or a reaction to the change that has taken place following that point, (the end of each segment.)
What is the crux and the decrescence?
500
Describes the height of an actor's head in a performance while carrying out certain actions.
What is level?
500
In Ancient Greece, the title of actor only applied to this person.
Who is the one with the most prominent dialogue?
500
A method that allows actors to use their own memories of certain situations in which they reacted emotionally in order to understand the emotions of the characters they are portraying.