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Theatre Vocab Chapter: 1
Theatre Vocab Words Chapter: 1
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12th Grade
09/14/2010

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Improvisation
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Create & perform without preparation
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Spontaneity
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A person who acts first & thinks later
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“Illusion of the first time”
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Situation in which an audience is led to believe that each performance is the first
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Scene-Stealing
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Calling attention to ones presence onstage and diverting attention away from the main actors.
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Character-centered-approach
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An approach to telling a story that focuses on a character or a group of characters who experience different situations.
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situation-centered-approach
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An approach to telling a story that takes a single situation or a series of situations and puts characters in them to show how different personalities respond to the same event.
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motivated sequence
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The natural way in which a person responds to stimulus- the brain registers, the body responds and then reacts as mirrored by an actor in an improvisation.
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Do Nothing Effectively
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To be visible on stage but not to play an active part in the scene
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Terminal Question
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A question that can be answered with a yes or no that shuts down the flow of the dialogue
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