Grade 8 Theory Terms

What an actor does, as the character, to fulfill their objective

Rehearsal technique involving improvisation
- actors analyse a 'bit' of the play
- they decide on a main event and an action for each character
- they then improvise that 'bit'

Seeing things through the character's eyes using the five senses

The events leading up to the start of the play or before each new entrance of a character
- the character's life imagined actively from the actor's first memory up to the start of the play

Manageable section or unit of a play
- starts when there is an event on stage, the character's objectives change, or a character enters / exits

Sending out and receiving signals between two living beings

Something that happens that affects thoughts and actions

State where the actor is left behind and the character is found - everything done is the product of the character's thoughts and actions

Desired state for an actor - a body free from tension that can be used to create and experience a role

Essence of a character

Situation the character is in within a particular bit of the play

Actor seeing themself from the audience's point of view whilst on stage

Combination of thinkking and doing that works across the system / works together in harmony

An invisible current that flows between us all the time

Thoughts had about others

Mental and physical pace, pace of everything around the actor and of everything they do

What the character does to achieve their super objective

- Thinking and doing as the character when based on a set of given circumstances
- imagining actively with a free body and a clearly walked through before time