Directors And Actors Flashcards
Playwright
Creator of plays, body language, tone, vocal
Script
Blue print
Plays were written to be what
Performed not read
Plot
Engage the audience, human action, can take on different forms and styles
Character
Consistent with character, believable; grow develop and change
Diction
Time and place, individual characters
Theme
Human action
Find a property
The finished written work
Six types of rehearsals
Read through rehearsal blocking rehearsal off book rehearsals review rehearsals running rehearsal technical rehearsal
Read through rehearsal
Cast reads through the entire play and the concept is discussed
Blocking rehearsal
Breaking the script into working units
Off book rehearsal
Actors rehearse the roles without their script
Review rehearsal
Allows actors to review previous off bookwork
Running rehearsal
Large sections of player performed to give the company a sense of timing for the play
Technical rehearsal
Coordinating the efforts of light sound and seen shift crews
Four responsibilities of directors
Select a script to apply they want to do, translate script into design, they have a production meeting, and casting is the next step
Auditions
Process where the actors perform before the Director so that they may determine their role
Call backs
Second level of audition where the Director ask pacific actors to return for further auditions
Cast list
Document that serves as official announcement of cast
Blocking
General movement and specific location of actors at a given moment
Business
Specific activity in which actors engage to reveal the nature of their character
Strongest area
Down center
Body positions
Full front position,1/4/shared position, profile position, three-quarter or fullback position
Historical development of actors
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
Actors
Unique cannot be separate from work
Modern acting - Stanislavsky
Created the system and emotional memory take something that you experience and use it in your character
Lee Strausburg
Method acting which is the psychological effect
Spin? I don’t know
Oh no
External acting
Playing for effect
Internal acting
Praying for truth
Virtuosity
Best you can be
Magic
Mesmerized is the audience
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
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
Business of acting 5
Schedules - long hours, Pay ——not a lot Frustration Audition-cattle calls, cold readings, prepared Professional unions-Can only act
Evaluating actor 4
External
Internal
Credibility-said Who they said they were
Curtain call-transition from play to outside world
