Directors And Actors

Question 1

Playwright

Answer 1

Creator of plays, body language, tone, vocal

Question 2

Script

Answer 2

Blue print

Question 3

Plays were written to be what

Answer 3

Performed not read

Question 4

Plot

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Character

Answer 5

Consistent with character, believable; grow develop and change

Question 6

Diction

Answer 6

Time and place, individual characters

Question 7

Theme

Answer 7

Human action

Question 8

Find a property

Answer 8

The finished written work

Question 9

Six types of rehearsals

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Read through rehearsal

Answer 10

Cast reads through the entire play and the concept is discussed

Question 11

Blocking rehearsal

Answer 11

Breaking the script into working units

Question 12

Off book rehearsal

Answer 12

Actors rehearse the roles without their script

Question 13

Review rehearsal

Answer 13

Allows actors to review previous off bookwork

Question 14

Running rehearsal

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Technical rehearsal

Answer 15

Coordinating the efforts of light sound and seen shift crews

Question 16

Four responsibilities of directors

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Auditions

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Call backs

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Cast list

Answer 19

Document that serves as official announcement of cast

Question 20

Blocking

Answer 20

General movement and specific location of actors at a given moment

Question 21

Business

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Strongest area

Answer 22

Down center

Question 23

Body positions

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Historical development of actors

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Actors

Answer 25

Unique cannot be separate from work

Question 26

Modern acting - Stanislavsky

Answer 26

Created the system and emotional memory take something that you experience and use it in your character

Question 27

Lee Strausburg

Answer 27

Method acting which is the psychological effect

Question 28

Spin? I don’t know

Answer 28

Oh no

Question 29

External acting

Answer 29

Playing for effect

Question 30

Internal acting

Answer 30

Praying for truth

Question 31

Virtuosity

Answer 31

Best you can be

Question 32

Magic

Answer 32

Mesmerized is the audience

Question 33

Tools for acting 6

Answer 33

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

Question 34

The actors process 4

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Business of acting 5

Answer 35

Schedules - long hours,
Pay ——not a lot
Frustration
Audition-cattle calls, cold readings, prepared
Professional unions-Can only act

Question 36

Evaluating actor 4

Answer 36

External
Internal
Credibility-said Who they said they were
Curtain call-transition from play to outside world