Something your character wants, and fights for over the course of a play.
What is an objective?
100
These are moments in a monologue where the emotions of the character change.
What are beats?
100
This is a helpful thing to do when you can't find a specific detail in your monologue, but you want to deepen your character.
What is infer or make it up?
100
This is something actors can add to their performance. It requires movement, and can help bring their characters to life.
What is physicality?
100
Recording your voice, using flash cards, and repetition are all techniques used for this.
What is memorization?
200
This is something your character does to get what they want. It is described with a VERB.
What is an action?
200
This is the minimum length your monologue was expected to be.
What is one minute?
200
Lots of these make your character bio more interesting and therefore, make your character more interesting.
What are details?
200
This is something actors can do in performance to create the world of the play for themselves when they have few or no props or set pieces. It requires them to use their mind's eye.
What is visualize?
200
Actors use these classes with a director to help them PREPARE for their final performance.
What are rehearsals?
300
These are past experiences that actors use to deepen their character's emotions.
What is an emotional memory?
300
This is where you should focus your attention when you are performing a monologue and where you put the person you are speaking to.
What is past the audience, or on the black X?
300
Writing your responses with these helps make the actor come up with ideas that they may not have thought of initially.
What are complete sentences?
300
This is something actors can do to prepare for a role. Using this technique does not require the actor to know their lines.
What is improvisation?
300
Restating what a character is saying to find the deeper meaning is a way of figuring out this.
What is subtext?
400
These are sensory experiences that characters use to create a deeper world for the character.
What is a sense memory?
400
This is what Mr. Pilutik expects from the audience when students are performing their monologues.
What is being quiet and attentive?
400
Answering this question on your bio helps you figure out your character, their personality, their characteristics and their values.
What is the question, "Who Am I?"
400
This quality is experienced by the actor when they step in the shoes of their character as if they were a real person.
What is empathy?
400
This is an activity that involves charting your characters lines, finding the subtext, objectives and actions.
What is scoring?
500
This is something you are not expected to have in theater class but hopefully will build over time as a result of performing.
What is confidence?
500
This is something that will get louder and more effective as a result of performing many times.
What is an actor's voice?
500
This question helps you figure out how your character feels about the circumstances of the play and how they feel about the other characters.
What is the question, "What is my relationship?"
500
Using these can help actors embody their character through sight, sound, touch, etc. and help the audience believe what the actor is doing is real to them.
What are the senses?
500
This is another way of saying that your script is completely memorized.