Performance Skills

Question 1

Focus

Answer 1

Actor’s ability to commit to a performance and use concentration to sustain their character(s)
Can create an implied character/setting through redirecting audience’s attention to a specific place

Question 2

Timing

Answer 2

Control/regulate pace of performance

Helps:
Build tension
Evoke feeling for audience
Coordinate effective synchronisation
Develop comic/dramatic potential of a scene

Question 3

Energy

Answer 3

Intensity actor brings to performance
Either make pathos or tension/conflict

Question 4

Actor-Audience Relationship

Answer 4

Considers impact they intend on their audience

By maintaining/manipulating audience’s:
Moods
Emotions
Responses

Done By:
Positioning of actor in relation to audience
Way actor engages audience
Emotional/intellectual response to a character’s situation by audience, intended or not