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22 Cards in this Set
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Stasis
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Introduction where the play begins. What happened right before to lead us to where we are.
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Inciting Incident
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What happens to break the stasis. Occurs early in the play and is the first thing to break the status quo.
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Rising Action
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Series of episodes/actions that build suspense. Complications of the play.
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Protagonist
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Character that drives the action of hte play. Decisions made by protagonist is what drives the play forward. Does not necessarily have to be a good guy orh ero. It's who the play is about.
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Crisis
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Rising action leads to the crisis. Where outcome of hte play hangs in the balance and there is a point of not return with the crisis.
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Climax
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Represents the final showdown where outcome will be decided.
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Falling action
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Outcome has been decided but play hasn't ended yet. This is when it's starting to wind down.
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Resolution
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How has protaganist changed? Protagonist normally goes through a change from beginning to end.
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Constatin Stanislavski
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Russian actor and director. Founder of Mercanart Theatre. Pinoneer is pushing for more honest, truthful, naturalistic acting. ALL ABOUT TRUTH!!
Makes distinction between INTERNAL and EXTERNAL action |
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External Action
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Any action that a character performs that can be seen with the eye.
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Internal Action
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Inner process of reaction, attitude, and need and choice.
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Objective
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What the character wants. Goal of the character in a given scene.
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Superovjective
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Long term goal fo the character. Goal defined by seeking change in a character.
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Tactics
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Active verb that is going to help you change the other character in the scene.
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Singular IMmediate Personally
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Important need to have on single objective in every scene. You have ot want it now. and on a very personal level.
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Public solitude
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When you're purusing physical action. You need to become less aware of hte crowd.
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Scenario
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When you break down the dscene into beats.
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Beat changes
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Whenever a character changes their tactic or objective
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Actor's goal
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To gain truthful performance
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Emotion Memory
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When you identify with the character's feelings to an event in your past and you use those emotions in your past to channel the character's emotional life.
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Literal relationship
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"Hammy" acting. Emotion comes from action.
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Dramatic
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Metaphorical relationship
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