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Non-medicated Theater

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live theatre not viewed on electronic devices

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Regional Theater

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permanent, professional, nonprofit theatre’s that offer a season of first-class productions to their audiences each year

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Community Theater

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semiprofessional and experienced amateur groups who present a series of plays each year that appeal to their audiences

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Site Specific Theater

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offers presentations in nontraditional theatre settings, such as warehouses, churches, firehouses, street corners, and public parks

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Performance Art

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an art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance

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Visual Art

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creative art whose products are to be appreciated by sight, such as painting, sculpture, and film. Includes painting sculpture, architecture, and photography

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Literary Art

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an artistic expression that is devoid of distortions, exaggerations, or embellishments. Includes novels, shirt stories and poetry

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Performing Art

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forms of creative activity that are performed in front of an audience, such as drama, music, and dance

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Global Theatre

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a 360 degree auditorium, we do not focus on just Eurocentric, often referred to as western theater but they study and recognize the impact of theaters from around the world

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Stage directions

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Stage right – up stage Center – up stage Stage left – up stage
Stage right – center Center Stage left - center
Stage right – down stage Center – down stage Stage left – down stage
audience

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Bertolt Brecht

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didn’t want the actors to play a character onstage, only to show them as a ‘type’ of person in society, German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer

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Shakespeare

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widely considered the greatest dramatist of all time as well as the most influential writer in the history of the English language

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Lorraine Hansberry

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the first African American woman to have a show produced on Broadway

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Anton Chekov

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Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and master of the modern short story

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Henrik Ibsen

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the father of realism

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Role-playing

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playing the role of the teacher, the student, the child and parent, follow the role of what is expected of the role

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Imitation

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portraying life as realistically as possible through characters interacting and telling stories, acting like someone else

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Moliere

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A keen-eyed observer of his contemporaries and avid chronicler of all their ways and works

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Eugene O’Neill

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poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism

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Arthur Miller

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combining social awareness with a searching concern for his characters’ inner lives

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Tennessee Williams

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insisted on a theater that was “plastic” that combined all the elements of production- dialogue, action, setting, lighting, even properties- in a unified, symbolic expression

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Temporal arts

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art forms that exist for only a specific period of time, live music, live theater

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Spatial Art

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art forms that exist in space and are created to last over time, all painting, sculpture, architecture, theater

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Playwright

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guy or girl who writes the play. Wright means to craft

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Script

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text with its structure characteristics and point of view

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Director

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vision for that show, does not mean they are the top person in charge

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Theater space

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proscenium stage, thrust stage, theater in the round arena theater

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Proscenium Theater

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audience is right in-front of the stage

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Thrust

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audience is on three sides of the stage

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Theater in the round

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the audience is seated in a circle around the stage

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Audience

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who watches the play

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Performers

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who act out the play

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Design Elements

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The design of the set, lighting, music, sound and costumes, and the way digital technology is used all contribute to the audience’s experience

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Willing suspension of disbelief

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the most important term the audience suspends their disbelief, it’s what gets you to watch and pay attention

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Aesthetic distance

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the separation of audience members from the performance or artwork to experience is aesthetic qualities

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Dramaturg

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aka dramatic adviser, duties are discovering and reading promising new plays, working with playwrights on the development of new scripts, identifying significant plays from the past that may have been overlooked, conducting research on previous productions of classic plays, preparing reports on the history of plays, researching criticism and interpretations of plays from the past, and writing articles for the programs that are distributed when plays are produced

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Critic

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is someone who observes theatre and then analyzes and comments on it and ideally serves as a knowledgeable and highly sensitive audience member

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Reviewer

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who usually works for a newspaper, a magazine, a television station, or a professional blog, reports on what has occurred at the theatre

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Curtain call

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the appearance of one or more performers on stage after a performance to acknowledge the audience’s applause

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Plot

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the arrangement of events of the selection and order of scenes in a play

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Action

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dramatic characters need a verb-some form of action that defines them

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Conflict

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the collision or opposition of persons or forces in a drama that gives rise to dramatic action

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Obstacle

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hurdles blocking a character’s path-or outside forces that are introduced at an inopportune moment

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Crisis

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As a result of conflicts, obstacles, and complications, dramatic characters become involved in a series called…

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Climax

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the final and most significant crisis is referred to as the…

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Climactic

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all aspects of a play- duration, locale, action, and number of characters-are severely restricted resulting in a contained, or intense structure

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Episodic

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covers an extended period of time

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Exposition

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details about the past must be provided during the course of the play

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Stasis

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the slowing, thwarting, or prolonging of events, movements, and progressions

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Deus ex Machina

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Latin for “god from a machine”

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Subplot

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one technique of episode drama is the parallel plot or…

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Ritual

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is a repetition or reenactment of some proceeding or transaction that has acquired special meaning

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Dialogue

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conversation between characters

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Monologue

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monologue is something off the top of the actors head that they audition with

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Extraordinary Characters

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unique talents, exceptional intelligence, or possess an exceptional level of courage, compassion, or determination

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Representative Characters

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embodies the traits and personalities of an entire group

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Stock Characters

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ones who represent specific stereotypes

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Balance of Forces

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the playwright attempts to create a relatively equal but hard fought contest

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Commedia Dell’ Arte

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a form of comic improvisational theatre that flourished in Italy form the late sixteenth century to the eighteenth century

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Characters with a Dominant trait

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found in certain theatrical characters, one paramount trait or tendency that over shows all others and appears to control the conduct of the character

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Minor Characters

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characters who play a small part in the overall action

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Chorus

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comments in song and dance on the action of the main plot

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Protagonist

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the leading character in a play, the chief or outstanding figure in the action

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Antagonist

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is a character who opposes the protagonist

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6 aspects of creating a script:

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  1. Selecting the subject of the play
  2. Determining Focus
  3. Establishing purpose
  4. Developing dramatic structure – this is true for both dramas and comedies
  5. Creating dramatic characters – this is true for both dramas and comedies
  6. Establishing a point of view
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Playwright

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guy or girl who writes the play. Wright means to craft

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Genres

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theatre divided into categories or types

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Tragedy

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ask very basic questions about human existence. Very sad very upsetting plays- if your name is in the title you’re dead by the end of the play

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Heroic Drama

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is not used as commonly as tragedy or comedy, but there is a wide range of plays for which heroic drama seems an appropriate description- indicates serious drama of any period that incorporates heroic or noble figures

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Bourgeois

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people of the middle or lower middle class rather than the aristocracy

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Domestic

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that the plays often deal with problems of the family or the home

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Romanticism

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a literary movement that took hold in Germany at the time and spread to France and throughout much of Europe

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Melodrama

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villains did bad things because that’s what bad guys do

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Slapstick

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describes all kinds of raucous, physical, knockabout comedy

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Farce

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places exaggerated characters in improbable situations where they face a number of outrageous obstacles

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Burlesque

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a ludicrous of other forms of drama or of an individual play

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Comic premise

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the basis that creates the comedy plot in a comedy

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Comedy of Manners

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is concerned with pointing up the foibles and peculiarities of the upper classes

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Comedy of Ideas

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comic techniques to debate intellectual propositions

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Tragicomedy

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sad events that are turned into something comedic, and everyone doesn’t die

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Theater of the Absurd

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what’s the meaning of life late1940s ww2 atomic bomb

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Realism

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1920’s – today we try to realistically show our lives and how we are on stage

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Given Circumstances

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for their character, what is going on in their lives

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Magic if

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what if you were in his/her shoes

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Beats

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the time between things being said where the character is “thinking” before they speak

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Superobjective

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the major overall goal, not to get an a, but to graduate

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Emotional Recall

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thinking of a memory to make you emotional during a play

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Ensemble Playing

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to be able to listen and react to other actors accordingly

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Konstantin Stanislavski

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God father of all modern acting, gave ways for acting

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Stanislavski’s Method

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  1. Relaxation 2. Concentration and observation 3. Importance of specifics 4. Inner truth 5. Action onstage 6. Throughline of a role 7. Ensemble playing
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Method Acting

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staying in character 24/7

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Strausberg

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Creator of method acting

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Adler

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felt that an actor should focus on the “given circumstances”

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Meisner

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focused on being in the moment and listening and responding honestly

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Hagen

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wrote two major acting books that are used lots. Focuses on putting themselves in characters situation

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Meyerhold

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very movement and position based

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Bogart

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focuses on breaking down emotional barriers by running for two hours

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Stage Combat

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fighting on stage but not actually hurting each other

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Tactics

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how you get what you want in a scene

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Motivation

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what is the characters endgame

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Subtext

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what a character really means, we don’t always say what we mean

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SAG/AFTRA

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major movie actor union/tv show union for tv show actors

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Equity

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a union for actors that are in equity shows stage acting

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Residuals

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every time something airs of an actor they get a percentage of it

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