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Acting Motivation
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Part in a play
role
Emotional Memory
keeping open on stage while crossing
pick up your cues
2. The intended point of interest on stage
your dropping line
subtext
focus
status quo
3. Memories of sights - sounds - smells - tastes and textures - used to define a character
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
Sense memory
callback
audition
4. To keep your face and the front of your body as visible to the audience as much as possible
open
focus
audition
outcome
5. Information that is implied but not spoken - thoughts or actions
your topping the line
monologue
subtext
presentational style
6. Your voice gets quieter as you say your line
objective
your dropping line
cast
your topping the line
7. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
strategy
Shared position
motivation
emotional memory
8. The intended point of interest on stage
focus
your topping the line
Beats
objective
9. The people conducting the auditions
auditors
leading center
keep open on stage while entering
presentational style
10. Forces the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor
leading center
obstacle
Upstaging
your topping the line
11. What part of the body you lead with
Emotional Memory
obstacle
obstacle
leading center
12. Turn your hand upstage
focus
representational style
emotional memory
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
13. Using a one quarter to the person your talking to
Sense memory
keep open on stage while entering through doors
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
your dropping line
14. When you preform actions and they generate an emotion within yourself
audition
cross
monologue
Acting Generated emotion
15. Interview for the play. make an impression and show talent
shared position
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
audition
Status quo
16. 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.
Beats
outcome
subtext
your topping the line
17. Memories of sights - sounds - smells - tastes and textures - used to define a character
leading center
Sense memory
shared position
audition
18. What the character does
action
leading center
status quo
transitions
19. To mark the floor of the rehearsal space to show the floor plan for the play
Spiking the set
stakes
subtext
pick up your cues
20. Control in posture
motivation
poise
upstage
Status quo
21. Present circumstances
outcome
cross
status quo
your topping the line
22. A complete reading of the play
Keeping open on stage while standing
read through
master gesture
open
23. Enter with your upstage foot
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
subtext
keep open on stage while entering
monologue
24. A characteristic gesture
master gesture
Shared position
obstacle
subtext
25. A imaginary wall between the audience and the stage
cast
subtext
fourth wall
your dropping line
26. Make crosses upstage in an upward arc
motivation
keeping open on stage while crossing
subtext
cue line
27. Chosen for a role
cast
subtext
strategy
working rehearsal
28. Where actors do not acknowledge the audience
Upstaging
upstage
representational style
fourth wall
29. The part of a characters's body that leads in movements - and reflects the nature of the character
keep open on stage while entering
Leading center
Spiking the set
obstacle
30. Bridges between the beats
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
subtext
subtext
transitions
31. Present circumstances
Shared position
status quo
leading center
pick up your cues
32. A position onstage where one actor mirrors another actor's body position
your topping the line
stakes
fourth wall
shared position
33. Your saying the line louder than the person before you
motivation
your topping the line
shared position
emotional memory
34. What is at risk
stakes
cold reading
master gesture
Status quo
35. What the character does
Sense memory
open
auditors
action
36. Full front - or one quarter left or right
cross
action
Keeping open on stage while standing
stage business
37. How a character overcomes the obstacle
presentational style
keep open on stage while entering
objective
strategy
38. To move from one place to another on stage
auditors
cross
monologue
pick up your cues
39. Turn your hand upstage
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
outcome
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
40. A final line that signals an actor to begin the next speech
Acting Generated emotion
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
cold reading
cue line
41. Turn in the direction of your downstage hand
audition
callback
Acting Generated emotion
keeping open on stage while turning
42. A position onstage where one actor mirrors another actor's body position
status quo
shared position
Sense memory
Keeping open on stage while standing
43. 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.
pick up your cues
cold reading
action
subtext
44. Your memory of sights - smells - tastes - sounds and textures
cast
objective
cross
sense memory
45. Result of action the characters take to overcome the obstacle
objective
read through
outcome
shared position
46. When you preform actions and they generate an emotion within yourself
Acting Generated emotion
subtext
monologue
stakes
47. Something preventing the character from getting the objective
stakes
auditors
fourth wall
obstacle
48. Where actors do not acknowledge the audience
Beats
obstacle
representational style
monologue
49. A story - speech or scene performed by one actor only
monologue
subtext
obstacle
cue line
50. What makes a character do something
motivation
your dropping line
obstacle
audition
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