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Characteristics
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Something your character wants.
What is his/her objective?
100
Something in the way of your objective.
What is an obstacle?
100
This is where Stanislavski grew up.
What is Russia?
100
Stanislavsky expects total mental and physical concentration on stage. He calls this psychophysical state______.
What is public solitude.
100
This characteristic contains age and height.
What is physical?
200
The character's objective in the film or play.
What is super objective?
200
Character's goal in life.
What is spine?
200
In 1884, Konstantin Alekseev began to act without his family’s knowledge, under a stage name.
Who is Stanislavski?
200
Psychophysical concentration begins with sharpening the senses. Stanislavsky teaches the importance of such a state of absorption by relating the Hindu story of a maharaja who offers the position of governmental minister to the person able to carry a pitcher of milk around the walls of the bustling city without spilling a drop.
What is observation.
200
This characteristic contains hobbies and intelligence.
What is social?
300
The character's objective in a single scene.
What is beat action?
300
Remembering your own emotions and applying them to a scene.
What is emotion memory or emotion recall?
300
Stanislavsky became the first practitioner in the twentieth century to _______, but he did so largely outside the confines of the Moscow Art Theatre. He began to develop what he called a ‘grammar’ of acting in 1906, when his performances as Dr Stockmann (An Enemy of the People) had begun to falter.
What is articulate systematic actor training?
300
The System values an actor’s capacity to treat fictional circumstances as if real, to visualize the details of a character’s world specifically, and to daydream or fantasize about the events of the play.
What is imagination for visualization.
300
This characteristic contains fears and dreams for the future.
What is psychological?
400
Objective for each line of the script.
What is line action?
400
Imagining how you would feel if you were the character is known as this.
What is the Magic If?
400
Until the communist revolution,he personally financed many of his most productive artistic experiments: in 1888 he founded a critically acclaimed theatrical enterprise.
What is he Society of Art and Literature?
400
For Stanislavsky, there can be no drama without interaction among scene partners and between actors and audience. Words are one vehicle for such interaction, but dialogue represents only a part of the play’s total power.
What is Communication.
400
This characteristic contains career/job and political views.
What is social?
500
Consistency in all objectives for my character.
What is through line?
500
A sub-section of a character's simple action in a scene.
What is beat action?
500
He witnessed three great revolutions: The first two shaped his career and made him world famous; the last turned him from a wealthy man into a poor one, from an artist who shaped modern theatre into one who was shaped by political forces.
What is realism’s overturn of nineteenth-century histrionics, modernism’s rejection of realism, and Russia’s political move from monarchy to communism?
500
To control non-verbal expression, Stanislavsky teaches actors to recognize and manipulate __________ that carry communication.
What are Rays of Energy.
500
This characteristic contains morality and attitudes towards life.
What is psychological?