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Acting Motivation
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Turn in the direction of your downstage hand
motivation
cold reading
keeping open on stage while turning
sense memory
2. Open the door with your upstage hand
Keeping open on stage while standing
Shared position
upstage
keep open on stage while entering through doors
3. Being asked to come back and see the auditors again
callback
strategy
monologue
keep open on stage while entering
4. What part of the body you lead with
cross
motivation
poise
leading center
5. To move from one place to another on stage
status quo
auditors
pick up your cues
cross
6. What your character wants
objective
cue line
presentational style
action
7. Forces the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor
cast
Upstaging
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
callback
8. Enter with your upstage foot
auditors
fourth wall
keep open on stage while entering
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
9. A position onstage where one actor mirrors another actor's body position
shared position
Acting Generated emotion
monologue
auditors
10. Bridges between the beats
subtext
stage business
transitions
cue line
11. Movements to strengthen the personality of the character
Shared position
working rehearsal
stage business
motivation
12. A story - speech or scene performed by one actor only
action
presentational style
Keeping open on stage while standing
monologue
13. Where actors do not acknowledge the audience
representational style
keep open on stage while entering through doors
cue line
monologue
14. Part in a play
upstage
role
emotional memory
Shared position
15. A characteristic gesture
keeping open on stage while crossing
representational style
cold reading
master gesture
16. Something preventing the character from getting the objective
Spiking the set
open
obstacle
role
17. To mark the floor of the rehearsal space to show the floor plan for the play
cold reading
Spiking the set
your dropping line
subtext
18. Open the door with your upstage hand
keep open on stage while entering through doors
sense memory
cue line
callback
19. Where an actor mirrors another actors position
Shared position
Sense memory
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
cross
20. A final line that signals an actor to begin the next speech
Acting Generated emotion
motivation
fourth wall
cue line
21. A imaginary wall between the audience and the stage
role
fourth wall
stakes
your dropping line
22. Being asked to come back and see the auditors again
working rehearsal
focus
callback
outcome
23. Make crosses upstage in an upward arc
keeping open on stage while crossing
objective
open
subtext
24. To mark the floor of the rehearsal space to show the floor plan for the play
Spiking the set
your topping the line
subtext
keep open on stage while entering through doors
25. Present circumstances
working rehearsal
keeping open on stage while crossing
status quo
strategy
26. Move right by moving with your right foot and vice versa with left
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
action
obstacle
keeping open on stage while crossing
27. What the character does
master gesture
action
working rehearsal
Shared position
28. Chosen for a role
Shared position
Upstaging
cast
Beats
29. A characteristic gesture
Keeping open on stage while standing
pick up your cues
master gesture
status quo
30. What makes a character do something
motivation
strategy
obstacle
emotional memory
31. A characters present circumstances
your dropping line
strategy
Status quo
strategy
32. When you preform actions and they generate an emotion within yourself
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
audition
poise
Acting Generated emotion
33. Information that is implied but not directly stated by the actor- thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same idea as the spoken words.
subtext
Sense memory
pick up your cues
pick up your cues
34. To stand upstage of another actor on a proscenium stage forcing the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the actor - stealing the focus of the scene.
upstage
emotional memory
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
emotional memory
35. What the character does
action
Spiking the set
cast
motivation
36. Full front - or one quarter left or right
leading center
your topping the line
master gesture
Keeping open on stage while standing
37. To move from one place to another on stage
Spiking the set
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
cross
Emotional Memory
38. Interview for the play. make an impression and show talent
Sense memory
master gesture
leading center
audition
39. Enter with your upstage foot
transitions
action
keep open on stage while entering
shared position
40. Auditioning with a script you have not read
fourth wall
subtext
Beats
cold reading
41. Information that is implied but not directly stated by the actor- thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same idea as the spoken words.
master gesture
stage business
outcome
subtext
42. Make crosses upstage in an upward arc
Acting Generated emotion
shared position
cold reading
keeping open on stage while crossing
43. Positive attitude - good communication - ask before you change your physical appearance
cue line
cold reading
subtext
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
44. Where actors do not acknowledge the audience
action
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
keeping open on stage while turning
representational style
45. How a character overcomes the obstacle
working rehearsal
pick up your cues
strategy
stage business
46. What is at risk
outcome
stakes
read through
cross
47. What is at risk
presentational style
stakes
upstage
transitions
48. Control in posture
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
shared position
auditors
poise
49. Positive attitude - good communication - ask before you change your physical appearance
Emotional Memory
focus
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
obstacle
50. What your character wants
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
Keeping open on stage while standing
objective
fourth wall