Freytag's Pyramid
Fundamentals
The Production Process
The Stage
Meisner, Strasberg, Adler
From Actor to Character
History and Stuff
100
What part of the story primarily introduces the major fictional elements including the setting, characters, style, etc.?
What is exposition?
100
Acting without words, sounds, or objects.
What is pantomime?
100
The person in charge of the whole production.
What is director?
100
Name location #5.
What is upstage right?
100
This method uses repetition.
What is Meisner method?
100
The place where the actor is speaking.
What is Location?
100
A speech delivered by a person standing on stage during a performance.
What is a monologue?
200
The part of the story that involves tying up the loose ends of the climax and falling action.
What is the resolution or denouement?
200
Acting without rehearsal or a script.
What is improvisation?
200
The person in charge of all the dances in a show.
What is choreographer?
200
Name location #13.
What is downstage left?
200
This method uses character objectives.
What is Adler method?
200
The person or people the character is talking to.
What is audience?
200
Marking the beats, actions, and objectives in a script.
What is scoring?
300
This is where the story's conflict peaks and we learn the fate of the main characters.
What is climax?
300
A group of people working together cooperatively aimed at achieving shared goals.
What is an ensemble?
300
The person in charge of supervising backstage.
What is stage manager?
300
This type of stage is a flexible performance space which when stripped to its basics is a single room, painted black, the floor of the stage is at the same level of the audience row.
What is a Black Box?
300
This method uses character research.
What is Adler method?
300
Something or someone standing in the characters way of achieving their desire?
What is obstacle?
300
The Greek God of theatre and wine.
Who is Dionysus?
400
In this part of the story the writer explores the aftermath of the climax.
What is falling action?
400
The movement of actors on stage?
What is blocking?
400
Person in charger of fabricating or buying the clothes the actors wear on stage.
What is costume designer?
400
This type of stage has an architectural frame, known as the proscenium arch, although not always arched in shape.
What is a Proscenium stage?
400
This method uses substitution.
What is Strasberg method?
400
What is pushing your character to want what they want.
What is motivation?
400
Theatre began in this place.
What is Ancient Greece?
500
This is the unexpected event early in a story that disrupts characters established routine, forcing them to confront a new challenge and setting the main plot in motion by creating a problem that must be solved.
What is the inciting incident?
500
An appealing and meaningful arrangement of performers on stage?
What is a tableau?
500
This person is responsible for guests' experiences and oversees the box office, ushers, and the cleanliness of venue where the audience sits.
What is house manager?
500
These type of stages project into the auditorium with the audience sitting on three sides.
What is Thrust stages?
500
This method uses sense memory.
What is Strasberg method?
500
The best actions for the characters to use to achieve what they want.
What are tactics?
500
The first actor who was a poet and playwright from Ancient Greece.
Who was Thespis?