Directors And Actors Flashcards

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Playwright

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Creator of plays, body language, tone, vocal

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Script

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Blue print

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Plays were written to be what

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Performed not read

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Plot

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Engage the audience, human action, can take on different forms and styles

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Character

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Consistent with character, believable; grow develop and change

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Diction

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Time and place, individual characters

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Theme

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Human action

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Find a property

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The finished written work

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Six types of rehearsals

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Read through rehearsal 
blocking rehearsal 
off book rehearsals 
review rehearsals 
running rehearsal 
technical rehearsal
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Read through rehearsal

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Cast reads through the entire play and the concept is discussed

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Blocking rehearsal

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Breaking the script into working units

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Off book rehearsal

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Actors rehearse the roles without their script

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Review rehearsal

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Allows actors to review previous off bookwork

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Running rehearsal

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Large sections of player performed to give the company a sense of timing for the play

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Technical rehearsal

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Coordinating the efforts of light sound and seen shift crews

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Four responsibilities of directors

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Select a script to apply they want to do, translate script into design, they have a production meeting, and casting is the next step

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Auditions

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Process where the actors perform before the Director so that they may determine their role

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Call backs

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Second level of audition where the Director ask pacific actors to return for further auditions

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Cast list

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Document that serves as official announcement of cast

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Blocking

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General movement and specific location of actors at a given moment

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Business

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Specific activity in which actors engage to reveal the nature of their character

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Strongest area

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Down center

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Body positions

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Full front position,1/4/shared position, profile position, three-quarter or fullback position

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Historical development of actors

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Greeks/1st actor created by player at the thesibis
Middle Ages/ Church then moved outside
Elizabethan slash all male actors, women played by young man boys, 17th century France first woman actor

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Actors
Unique cannot be separate from work
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Modern acting - Stanislavsky
Created the system and emotional memory take something that you experience and use it in your character
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Lee Strausburg
Method acting which is the psychological effect
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Spin? I don’t know
Oh no
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External acting
Playing for effect
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Internal acting
Praying for truth
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Virtuosity
Best you can be
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Magic
Mesmerized is the audience
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Tools for acting 6
``` Physiological (voice and movement) Psychological, imagination; willing to use it, In situation of play; making it based on your you are a real person, Unique giving character life, discipline ```
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The actors process 4
Analysis - character and play, rehearsal – which traits want to show and not, performance and sustaining the performance -influence of audience, sustaining a performance play last a week or month and a fresh rehearsal
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Business of acting 5
``` Schedules - long hours, Pay ——not a lot Frustration Audition-cattle calls, cold readings, prepared Professional unions-Can only act ```
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Evaluating actor 4
External Internal Credibility-said Who they said they were Curtain call-transition from play to outside world