Script
A division of an act or of the play itself. A …. normally represents actions happening in one place at one time, and is marked off from the next scene by a curtain, a black-out, or a brief emptying of the stage.
What is a scene?
Reasons why a character behaves or reacts in a particular way in a scene or play; the reason for an action.
What is motivation?
To throw the voice to the farthest person in the audience.
What is projection/projecting?
The speed at which a play or scene is performed.
What is Pacing?
A genre of dramatic performance having a light or humorous tone that depicts amusing incidents and in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity.
What is comedy?
A part of a play defined by elements such as rising action, climax, and resolution.
What is an act?
A goal or particular need or want that a character has within a scene or play.
What is objective?
To turn your face or entire body out to the audience to be seen better without completely turning profile.
What is cheating out?
A tool that allows an artist to interpret the various words the writer has given them and, ultimately, to transform them into live action.
A genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character.
What is tragedy?
An instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
What is stage directions?
A person, place or thing that gets in the way of characters reaching their objective.
What is obstacle?
The actor’s basic stage positioning given to the actor by the director or used in self-direction.
What is blocking?
The venue where all areas can share information, clarify the needs of the department, establish deadlines, and work on creating a schedule with consideration for each departments priorities.
What is a production meeting?
A play that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable.
What is a farce?
An organized reading of a script in which the speaking parts, stage directions, voiceover, and scene headings are read out loud.
What is a read-through?
How a character seeks to achieve their objective, the selection of …. are based on the obstacle presented.
What is tactic?
The action or words that signals what happens next.
What is a cue?
A distinctive and individual gesture or trait; idiosyncrasy (unusual habits or characteristics); the gestures or ways of speaking which are very characteristic of them, and which they often use.
What is quirk/mannerism?
A play without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs or ballets.
What is vaudeville
The underlying actions and events that have happened before the play, story, or devised piece begins.
What is given circumstances?
The art of developing the character (e.g., his/her life, emotions, choices, motivations, objectives).
What is characterization?
To draw attention away from another actor. To force (an actor) to face away from the audience.
What is upstaging?
The theory, study, and practice of dramatic composition. It is an exploration of and within the world of the play, as well as how that world interacts with our own.
What is dramaturgy?
A dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization.
What is melodrama?