Stage Geography
Moving closer to the audience
What is Downstage
Speed at which words are spoken
Rate
A play should take place within 24 hours
Unity of time
Cold Read
The barrier between actor and audience, that is sometimes broken for effect
Fourth Wall
Offstage area where actors and scenery waits to go on
Wings
An unvaried speaking tone without any inflection
Monotone
A play should only take place in one location
Unity of place
An introduction for an audition
Slate
Shapes that you should try to create in your blocking, in order to keep people out of staying in lines
Triangles
The most prominent position on stage
Down stage right
The relative highness or lowness of the voice
Pitch
A play should only have one major plot, with no subplots
Unity of action
An emotional shift in a scene
A Beat
Staging technique meant to use different heights on the stage to tell a story
Levels
Movement of actors on the stage
Blocking
Variety in pitch; the voice moving up and down
Inflection
The story of the play when the curtain rises
Preliminary situation
what is one thing you should do to prepare for an audtion
rehearse, memorize, research
A slanted stage
Raked
Stage directions are always from the perspective of who
Actors
The stregnth, force, or intensity with which sound is made
Volume
The main character
Protagonist
What is one thing to keep in mind when filming a video audition
background, angle, sound, etc.
The walls of a proscenium stage that frames the set
Proscenium Arch