Theater

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The three challenges of acting

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1. Making characters believable

2. Physical acting-the use of voice and body

3. Synthesis and integration- combining inner and outer skills

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Stanislavski

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A technique for realistic acting

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Realism

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the quality or fact of representing a person, thing, or situation accurately or in a way that is true to life.

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Psychophysical action

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Purposeful action undertaken to fulfill a characters goals was the most direct route to the emotions

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The magic if

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Actor must ask themselves what would I do in the circumstance

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Emotional recall

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A tool intended to help performers achieve a sense of emotional truth

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Centering

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when you feel completely balanced within yourself and breathing comfortably with a high breastbone and your chest comfortably filled with air.

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Method acting

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technique of acting in which an actor aspires to complete emotional identification with a part

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A triple threat

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person in theatre who can sing, dance and act

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Technical acting

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use of learned skills of acting, movement, speech, and interpretation to create roles, no emotional response is used

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Ensemble playing

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unified effect achieved by all members of a cast working together on behalf of the play

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Through line

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a connecting theme or plot

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The Paradox of the actor

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great actors do not experience the emotions they are displaying.

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George II Duke of Saxe Meiningen

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Influenced theater

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Director

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Most closely associated with the performers, responsible for overall style and visual appearance.

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Spine

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the characters major goal or objective, the internal forces that drives the characters choices

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Duties of the director

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Casting, auditions, rehearsal

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Casting

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Finding an actor for each role

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Auditions

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Demonstrating actors skills

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Rehearsal

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a practice or trial performance of a play , run through

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Blocking

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the precise staging of actors in order to facilitate the performance of a play

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Technical rehearsal

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It runs through the entire production, including lights and sound.

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Stage picture

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How the entire scene on stage will appear to the audience

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Stage manager

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Coordinates all the rehearsals and actual Runnings of performance

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Dramaturg

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Discover's Andrea in new place, develop new Scripts.

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Producer

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Directors counterparts in the business management side of theater production. Raises money for the production, secures writes the scripts, hires directors, performers, designers, and stage crew. Pays for everything

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Commercial theater

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For-profit

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Non commercial theater

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Nonprofit

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Artistic director

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selection and interpretation of the works performed by a theater,

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Proscenium

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The frame that separates the stage from the audience.

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Fourth wall

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the space that separates a performer or performance from an audience.

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Rake stage

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Orchestra

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circular space used by the chorus in front of the proscenium

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Fly Loft

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The space between the roof and the performance area that is not visible to the audience

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Thrust stage

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Arena

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Area surrounded by seats

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Found space

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performance space that wasn’t designed to be one

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Corrales stage

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open-air theatre

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Theatre in the round

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form of theatrical presentation in which the audience is seated in a circle around the stage or on at least three of its sides.

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Black box theater

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classroom, audience and actors are in same room, flexible

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Aesthetic distance

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gap between a viewer's conscious reality and the fictional reality

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Multi Focus Theatre

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More than one playing area where something is going on simultaneously and each area, like a circus

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The scene designers objective

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The visual elements of design to provide an audience with understanding of time, place, and mood.

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Scene designer

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Responsible for the stage set

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Elements of scene design

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Scene designer, costume designer, lighting designer, and sound designer

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Costume designer

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Responsible for the outfits and accessories worn by the performers

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Lighting design in theatre history

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Lighting used to be the sun, because the plays are outside in the daytime. Then oil lamps, then light bulbs

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Lighting designer

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Responsible for the light, Illuminating onto the stage

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Sound designer

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Responsible for the aural world of the play and the sound system

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Light plot

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a document like an architectural blueprint used specifically by theatrical lighting

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Gobo

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a dark plate or screen used to shield a lens from light.

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Follow spot

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Spotlight

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Floodlight

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a large, powerful light, typically one of several used to illuminate a stage

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Focus

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the specific point of attention on stage at any moment

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Fade

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gradually grow faint and disappear.

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Cue

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thing said or done that serves as a signal to an actor

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Black lighting

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ultraviolet or infrared radiation, invisible to the eye.

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Blackout

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The sudden extinguishment of all stage lights in a theater to indicate the passage of time or to mark the end of an act or scene