Show:
INTRO TO ACTING
OVERCOMING OBSTACLES
RELAXING THE BODY
VOICE
VOICE AND TEXT
100
The type of conflict that is generally provided by the playwright and is created by the mere presence of a character
What is external conflict?
100
Ron Cameron says that there are no rights and wrongs in acting, just these.
What are choices?
100
Most common areas of retained tension
What are the neck and shoulders?
100
This is the first item in the sequence for voice production and stresses the importance of being loose and limber
What is relaxation
100
Contemporary plays are written in this form
What is prose
200
The type of conflict that involves the mental and emotional turmoil within a character
What is internal conflict?
200
Justification is the root of clarity in theatre. Rather than being general, the choices you make as an actor must have this quality.
What is specificity?
200
Using these for the voice and body will help to avoid tension in performance.
What is a warm up?
200
This respiratory element is essential to sustain appropriate energy in the voice and helps with vocal projection.
What is breath control
200
This form of writing involves lines that have a regularly repeated stress and often a rhyme pattern
What is verse or poetry
300
The specific goal that provides the character with motivation to achieve that end
What is an obstacle?
300
An actor becomes this when they do not keep themselves open, accessible, and vulnerable, and when they reject criticism of their work. John Wayne is an example.
What is a "personality actor"?
300
This involves lengthening and flattening the spine while lying on the floor.
What is a spinal roll
300
The amplification of the voice
What is resonance
300
Emotions that are common to all humanity: pain, anger, sadness, etc.
What are universals
400
This is one of the first ways that acting is introduced in our lives (like when children pretend to be Mom or Dad in "house" games).
What is role-playing?
400
This is the groundwork on which to build the acting craft.
What are the fundamentals of theatrical presentation?
400
This exercise relieves tension in the neck by doing a slow, 30-second rotation of the head while allowing the jaw to relax.
What is a head roll?
400
Clarity in the formation of the consonant sounds using the organs of speech
What is articulation
400
The words that serve as valves to release emotions identified within a text
What are particulars
500
the two major elements of acting
What are the actor and character
500
This approach to acting emphasizes the importance of acting exercises become part of a larger whole in the quest to become a well-rounded actor.
What is a building block approach?
500
This exercise involves the whole body and introduces the subject of combining breath work with relaxation.
What is the rag-doll slow flop?
500
This allows us to express a wide array of emotions, interpretations, and colour to reflect the true meaning of what we are saying. This involves rate of speech, pace of dialogue, use of pause, inflection, volume, and pitch.
What is vocal variety?
500
Words that indicate what is coming next
What are hitching posts