Method Acting
What is an objective?
Where an actor is told to move or stand during a scene.
What is blocking?
The term for the overall feeling of a sound design.
What is a soundscape?
What the ladies are charting in the play Silent Sky.
What are stars?
Silently breathing and resetting your mind in an effort to become a character.
What is meditation?
How a charatcer tries to get what they want in a scene.
The purging of emotions after viewing a piece of art.
What is Catharsis?
A director's overall idea for a production, including design.
What is a concept?
The main character in the play Silent Sky.
Who is Henrietta Leavitt?
Relying on personal trauma to create realistic emotion within a performance.
What is emotional memory?
Everything that happens before a scene begins.
The term that tells actors to get into prosition for the beginning of a scene or play.
What is places?
The music played before a performance begins.
What is pre-show music?
What Henrietta gives up in pursuit of her dreams.
What is love? (or, what is family)
Remembering the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feeling of emotions and objects to create a realistic performance.
What is sense memory?
The idea of placing yourself in a character's shoes to figure out how you would act if placed in a similar situation.
What is the magic if?
The part of a resume that lists things such as singing, dancing, driving, roller skating, etc.
What is/are special skills?
The speech given by a director at the beginning of a show.
What is a curtain speech?
The author of Silent Sky.
Who is Lauren Gunderson?
The terms for giving props realistic weight and personal meaning when acting.
What is endowment?
He created method acting.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavski?
The acting concept that has you physically and mentally place yourself in your characters shoes to create a believable performance.
What is method acting?
The "pictures" created through directing a theatre performance.
What are stage pictures?
The primary setting of Silent Sky.
Harvard Conservatory
The American who studied under Sanislavski and brought method acting to the US.
Who is Lee Strasburg?