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Name the four main stage directions
Upstage
Downstage
Stage Left
Stage Right
What is an ensemble?
A group working together to achieve a goal.
What is a "good voice"?
An actor's onstage movements are called:
Blocking
The clear, precise, pronunciation of speech is called
articulation
arm or leg farthest away from the audience
Upstage limb
feed back that is negative and not specific and not helpful to the person receiving it and does not use theatrical vocabulary
Weak constructive criticism
Filling a space with your voice is called:
Projection
Who oversees all aspects of the production of a play?
The director
What are body movements that people use to create emphasis or meaning?
Gestures
What is the definition of theatre?
Theatre is the art of writing, acting, and producing plays.
Who takes the words of the playwright and brings a character to life?
The actor
Why is the front of the stage called downstage?
It’s DOWN towards the audience.
Why isn’t “stage left” really “stage right”?
It’s from the actor’s point of view.
What does Ms. Brown call stage fright?
“Nervous anticipation”
saying or doing something that is not in keeping with the character one is portraying
breaking character
break in the middle of a stage show, about 15 minutes long
Intermission
What does a play wright do?
Writes the play.
What is constructive criticism?
Sharing observations and suggestions in a way that offers an actor a clear path to improvement
How you behave in the drama classroom or in an auditorium in order to get along and be a good person in the theatrical world is called:
theatre etiquette
the playing of dramatic scenes without written dialogue and with minimal or no predetermined dramatic activity
Improvisation
The Scottish Play.....It's bad luck to say the name of this play inside an auditorium.
MACBETH
The audience will know what a pantomimed object is by how you:
1. Hold it
2. React to it
3. Interact with it
articulators
What body parts push the air out of your body as a sound? (diaphragm, lungs, trachea)
resonators