Pantomime and Improvisation
Storylines in pantomime must be ______.
What is simple?
The highness or lowness of your voice; the musical quality of your voice.
What is pitch?
A type of stage where the audience completely surrounds the performance space
What is arena or in-the-round?
When an actor faces the audience completely
What is full front?
The length of a standard audition monologue
What is one minute?
Pantomime is _________
What is telling stories without speaking?
Speaking clearly so you can be understood
What is diction?
Where the audience sits
What is the house?
When an actor is turned in or out a little bit from the audience
What is 1/4?
The part of a script in italics and parentheses that provides description, background, and some blocking
What are stage directions?
In pantomime, actors usually do not _______.
What is use props?
Where human speech begins, anatomically
What is the diaphragm?
A picture-frame stage (hint, it's what we have in the gym)
What is a proscenium stage?
When the audience only sees the side of the actor
What is profile?
An actor's movements on stage
What is blocking?
One of the most important rules in improvisation?
What is don't ask questions?
Speaking loudly enough to be heard
What is projection?
When the audience sits around 3 of the four sides of a stage, and it juts out into the audience
What is thrust or three quarter?
When the actor is faced completely away from the audience?
What is full back?
The theatrical term for moving on stage
What an actor should say in an improv scene instead of no
What is yes and?
How quickly or slowly you speak
What is rate or pace?
The part of the stage between the main drape and the house
What is the apron?
When an actor is mostly faced away from the audience
What is 3/4?
A group of people working together towards a common goal, especially in theatre
What is ensemble?