Show:
Can You Hear Me?
To Be or Not to Be
Why Did You Do That?
Tell Me a Story
Life's a Stage
100
Variety in speech.
What is inflection?
100
A characteristic gesture.
What is a master gesture?
100
A clear reason to do or say anything.
What is motivation?
100
The catalyst for the play's action.
What is an inciting incident?
100
To move from one place onstage to another.
What is cross?
200
To make your voice fill the performance space.
What is project?
200
To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible.
What is open?
200
Something that stands between you and the achievement of your goal, something that is preventing you from meeting your objective.
What is obstacle?
200
The turning point in the story.
What is the climax?
200
A small section of a scene, divided where a shift in emotion or topic occurs.
What is beat?
300
The clear and precise pronunciation of words.
What is articulation?
300
A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
What is shared position?
300
The result of action taken by the characters to overcome their obstacles and achieve their objectives.
What is outcome?
300
The name of Shakespeare's theatre.
What is the Globe Theatre?
300
A breathing technique useful to actors that increases air capacity and improves breath control.
What is diaphragmatic breathing?
400
The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
What are resonators?
400
The intended point of interest onstage.
What is focus?
400
The technique of calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character.
What is emotional memory?
400
Another word for improvise (to speak or act without a script).
What is improvise?
400
The complications and discoveries in a play which create conflict.
What is rising action?
500
The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
What are articulators?
500
Information that is implied but not stated by a character; thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same meaning as the spoken word.
What is subtext?
500
The consequences of the outcome.
What are stakes?
500
She told stories to her husband to save her life an is featured in the story The Thousand and One Nights.
Who is Scheherazade?
500
The other names for a griot (name at least one).
What is a gewel, jaly, or ayan?