Class/Auditorium Rules
Basics of Theatre
Characterization
Play Analysis
Acting
100
This is the word said to cue you to line up at the auditorium doors.
PLACES
100
What is a Cue?
A word or phrase or action signaling an actor’s line, entrance or exit.
100
What do you do if you don't know something about a character you are trying to play?
Make it up! (Using your imagination and context from the script)
100
What is a script?
A play in the written form
100
What emotion is being expressed?
Eyebrows furrowed, posture hunched, mouth frowning
Sad
200
What is the consequence for having your phone out in class?
1st Offence: Warning
2nd Offence: Taking it up, may have it back at the end of class
3rd Offence: Phone is turned into the front office
200
If the classroom was the stage, and the smartboard was the audience, where is stage right?
The side with the auditorium doors
200
The main character
The Protagonist
200
The term for "a goal the character wants to achieve"
Objective
200
What is acting?
The art of performance
300
Why should you not mess with the furniture on the stage?
You might break it or get hurt.
300
Three things needed to be "theatre"
1. A Story
2. A Performer
3. An Audience
300
The bad guy
The Antagonist
300
Describe three types of character relationships
Parent/Child, Sister/Brother, BF/GF, Coworkers, Strangers, Etc.
300
Name two ways to express yourself without using words.
Body Language and Facial Expression
400
What are the five auditorium rules?
- No horseplay
- Do not mess with the set
- No food on stage
- Do not exit through auditorium @ end of class
- Do not enter the booth
400
The term for stage movements that each character makes during a play.
Blocking
400
Describe the difference between True Self vs. Outer Self
True Self: How a character truly feels
Outer Self: How a character presents themselves on the outside
400
Describe what "inciting incident" means AND give an example of one.
An event that sets the plot in motion.
400
What does it mean to break character?
When you are no longer acting as your character, but as yourself when a mistake occurs.
500
What are the five classroom rules?
- Do not talk while the teacher is speaking
- Be respectful
- Pick Up After Yourself
- No horseplay
- No Phones
500
What is blocking?
The stage movements that each character makes during the play.
500
Four ways to gather information about a character
1. What the character says about themselves
2. What other characters say about a character
3. Setting
4. Subtext
500
Draw and label the dramatic structure graph on the board
500
List the four standards of acting.
1. Proper Voice and Diction
2. Emotional Expression
3. Creativity
4. 5 Senses