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| Emotional / Subjective Acting |
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| actors play their parts in such a way that they actually weep, suffer, or struggle emotionally; they become their parts |
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| Technical / Objective Acting |
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| use of learned skills of acting, movement, speech, and interpretation to create roles, no emotional response is used; performance based on technique |
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| main characters in a play |
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| the main character in a play; must solve the problem that arises in the play |
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| person or force working against the protagonist in a play |
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| those characters who act as contrasts to others; characters with whom other characters are compared |
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| a role in which the actor and the character portrayed are similar in appearance and personality |
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| role in which an actor portrays traits that differ from his or her own to produce a desired character |
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| putting together all facets of a character to bring life and interest to that character |
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| an acting role that is used for personality comparison, usually with the main character |
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| a female lead between the ages of sixteen and thirty |
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| a male lead between the ages of sixteen and thirty |
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| identifying and casting an actor in the same kind of role aver and over |
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| a lull or a stop in dialogue or action on order to sustain emotion |
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| the ability to change style or character with ease |
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| movement in opposite directions by two or more actors to balance the stage picture |
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| improperly taking attention from an actor who should be the focus of attention |
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| technique of pivoting the torso so that the face is toward the audience even when facing sideways |
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| situation in which two actors stand or sit parallel to eachother |
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| shifting audience attention from one actor to another |
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| focusing audience attention on the actor who is the real center of the dramatic action by having the other actors shift their bodies and look at this key character |
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| “Taking Yourself Out Of A Scene” |
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| the actor’s turning away from the audience into a three-quarter-back or full-back position |
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| the individual whose posture, movements, habits, voice inflections, and mannerisms are observed in order to build character |
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| books that help in developing characterization |
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| communication that uses gestures, posture, and facial expressions instead of words |
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| a distinctive action that is repeated and serves as a clue to a character’s personality, such as a peculiar laugh or walk |
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| the meaning “between the lines” that an actor must draw from the script |
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| the use of an actor’s personal experience to relate to the experience of a character in a play |
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| restating lines in one’s own words |
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| lines interrupted by another speaker and indicated by dashes in the script |
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| lines that actors trail off rather than finishing |
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| the audience’s reaction that actors listen for in order to anticipate the length of time the audience will laugh |
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| a form of musical theater in which all conversations are sung |
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| a form of musical theater in which the music is lighter than opera and |
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| a humorous or satirical operetta |
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| a production consisting of a series of independent song-and- |
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| a form of musical theater; a combination of operetta and |
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| a form of musical theater in which the emphasis is on real people |
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| a term that describes characters walking across the stage together or entering from opposite sides and meeting on the stage |
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| the music played between scenes while sets are being changed |
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| a farcical literary work that pokes fun at certain subjects or time periods |
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| a style of comedy that presents humourous attacks on accepted conventions of society, holding up human vices and follies to ridicule |
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| a series of loosely connected scenes that focus on a theatrical concept |
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| a listing of all the flying scenery and what is on each piece, prepared by the technical director or the stage manager |
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| a diagram showing how scenic units are to be stored in the wing areas during a show |
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| the use of lighting instruments above and behind performers to accent the performers and set them apart from the background |
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| a costume that is double-faced so that by reversing it the illusion of a different costume is created |
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| costumes that are separates, which are interchangeable, or sometimes reversible, such as ties, vests, and so on |
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| a small group of instrumentalists |
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| a person who designs dance for the stage |
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| the dances designed for a production |
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| a person who writes music |
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| in present-day theater, the singers in a musical, other than the principals |
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| the music, usually a medley of the show’s songs, played at the beginning of a musical |
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| the music of a show as composed |
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