1What are the two forms of acting in everday life?
Role Playing and Imitation
2Role Playing
The acting out of particular role by copying the expected social behavior of that person
3Imitation
to simulate or copy behavior observed in real life.
4Social Rules
general roles recognized by society; father, mother, child, teacher, student
5Personal Roles
These are the roles we have within our family and friends
6What element did Greek and Asian theatre stress?
Formal movement and dress similar to ballet
7Aside
Speaking to the audience
8Clap Trap
A final inflection or gesture to provoke applause
9Poetry
Demands of sustained phrases and exacting meter
10Prose
How we speak in everyday life
11When did realistic acting become more important?
at the end of the 19th century
12Denis Diderot
Endorsed the use of realistic prose rather than verse
13Francois Delsarte
made a system of expression which the performers thoughts and emotions were reduced to a specific series of poses and attitudes accomplished through a selective use of body and voice.
14Internal
inner truth; making the characters believable
15External
Use and training of body and voice
16Who created the method of believable acting?
Constantin Stanislavsky
17Inner needs
goals and objectives
18Ensemble
Players with other performers in a scene
19Relaxation
unwanted tension has to be elminated
20Circle of Attention
the range of concentration an actor presents onstage
21Inner Truth
the characters thoughts and emotions
22magic if
Asks you to enter the story and imagine yourself as the character, "What would I do, as the character, if..."
23Super Objective
What the character wants above all else in the course of the play
24Beats
Units of divided scenes that each contain an objective
25Psychophysical Action
Purposeful action performed as a result of given circumstances that leads to an emotion
26Emotional Recall
the technique of remember of a past experience in the performer’s life that is similar to the one in the play