theatre chapter 4

Identify the three main challenges of acting:

Integration of skills Vocal and Physical skills Believability

What physical skills would an actor playing Hamlet be expected to master in order to portray the role effectively?

Moving with confidence Sword fighting Moving with precision

To illustrate their low place on the social scale at various points throughout history, actors have been:

Regarded as equal to courtesans or prostitutes Legally prevented from receiving a Christian burial

Which of the following statements about acting on stage are true?

The actor plays characters that are not real but representations of people. The actor must have an audience present.

Which of the following match the beliefs and teachings of Stanislavski's later work?

emphasized psychophysical action emphasized action over emotion

When actors are working as a unit aware of and in conjunction with their fellow actors this is called

ensemble performance

Which of the following are situations for which an actor must receive extensive physical and/or vocal training?

musical theatre modern on stage violence sword fights Shakespearian plays

When an actor is able to let go of unwanted tension both vocally and physically this is called

relaxation

In our everyday lives when we play different parts or take on varied characteristics to fit in, or fulfill expectations this is called __________.

role playing

What is another name for a through line of a role?

superobjective

A popular actor training method that comes from Asian martial arts training is called

tai chi

In order to critically watch and judge theatre performances we need to be able to explore and understand __________ techniques and practices.

acting

Robert Cohen uses an exercise called ________________ where students memorize the same text but the given circumstances are changed for the scene each time.

contentless scene

Stanislavski recognized that the ________ ________ could activate an actor's imagination and transport him or her to new places, times and situations based on his or her belief.

magic if

________ action is Stanislavski's term for purposeful action.

psychophysical

When an actor is focused on a particular area of the stage, an object, or another person this is called:

circle of attention

Stanislavski believed that all action performed on stage must have a(n) __________.

purpose

Identify the factors that resulted in the development of more realistic acting at the end of the nineteenth century:

Audiences wanted to see themselves on stage. Playwrights like Henrik Ibsen began writing more Realistic plays. Practitioners of theatre wanted to portray everyday life.

The first theatre practitioner to put together a system of acting that could be taught to others in order to reproduce truth on stage was ________ ________.

Constantin Stanislavski

The factors that led to the development of Stanislavski's System of acting included:

His work with Anton Chekhov His desire to pass along ways to achieve believable acting His observations of believable actors