Performance skills

Question 1

Actor-Audience Relationship

Answer 1

• How actors provoke emotions in the audience (eg. trying to make them laugh in a comedic scene)
• How the physical space is set up - distance from the audience etc
• Intimate vs separate
  Size of performance space

Question 2

Focus

Answer 2

• not about actors focus/concentration
• Where the audience’s attention is being directed
• Actors focusing or manipulating the audience to focus on a certain prop, or person, scene etc

Question 3

Timing

Answer 3

• Pace of the performance
• Building climax
• Actual length of the scene/performance
• Dramatic pauses (drawing emphasis)
• Synchronised movement

Question 4

Energy

Answer 4

• High/low energy
• Contrast of energy throughout performance
• Actor’s intensity
• Maintaining energy