FINAL EXAM NOTES Section A,B,C

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  Section A Theater Terminology and Concepts #3,4,8
  
  
  3. Projection, Enunciation-making sure your voice is heard on stage.
  The audience should hear the voice clearly. It is important because the audience need to hear what the actors are saying in order to understand them. If people doesn’t project on stage, their performance will turn into a Mime performance. It will be confusing to
  
  
  4. Blocking is the actions and movements actors do on the stage.
  Having good blocking is crucial to making your performance looking as natural as possible, and to show the message you are trying to portray on stage. It helps the audience to understand the context and we could fully use the space of the stage. Prior to modern acting and “realistic” blocking, blocking was set up as “tableau” This was used in classical theater  to emphasize the unrealisticness of the play being shown.
  • Terms used in blocking:
  • Center stage; stage left; stage right; down stage; up stage and the combination of those terms.
  • All the terms are used in the perspective of the actors, not the audience.
  
  
  
  8. Constantin Stanislavski, Uta Hagen, and one other theorist (your choice)
  
  
  
  Constantin Stanislavski- Russian theatre practitioner. He was widely recognised as an outstanding character actor and the many productions that he directed garnered a reputation as one of the leading theatre directors of his generation.His principal fame and influence, however, rests on his 'system' of actor training, preparation, and rehearsal technique.
  
  
  
  Uta Hagen-Hagen developed an exercise where the actor answers nine questions about their character to discover their motivation.
  
  
  Uta Hagen’s nine questions:
  1. Who am I?
  2. What time is it?
  3. Where am I?
  4. What surrounds me?
  5. What are the given circumstances?
  6. What is my relationship?
  7. What do I want?
  8. What is in my way?
  9. What do I do to get what I want?
  
  
  
  
  Viola Spolin- Known worldwide as the originator of Theater games. Her games eventually turned into what we know today as Improvisation theater. Viola is considered the mother of improvisation in theater.
  
  
  The Key to Viola’s Theater Games are as followed
  • physicalization (being able to act out actions)
  • spontaneity (being able to come up with things on the spot)
  • intuition (Showing full understanding immediately)
  • audience (They are apart of the game),
  • transformation (Everyone is on the same page. the actors, and the audience)
  
  
  
  B. Literature Terminology and Concepts B: 2,4,9;
  
  
  2. Character are used within a play to develop a storyline. Characters are usually the centerpiece of the play and there should always be at least one main character
  
  
  4. Setting- where the story takes place
  
  
  9. Plot is the main idea and conflict of the story
  
  
  
  
  
  
  C. Poetry Terminology and Concepts C: 1,6,7
  
  
  1. Rhyme scheme is the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
  6. Speaker is a the narrative voice in a poem. It could be the poet himself or anybody that decides to read a piece of poetry and add his own interpretation and performance behind the meanings of the lines.
  7. Stanzas and Lines- a division of lines in a poem is called a stanza. Usually the meaning behind stanzas are connected and the split of stanzas occurs when the poem takes a turn in meaning. Lines are unit in which poetry is separated. Many times there are a constant number of syllables in each line of poetry or the number of words used in each line is similar