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Physical skills
Facial expressions, posture, gestures, levels, movement, space, physical control, audience awareness
Vocal skills
Accent, emphasis, pace, pause, pitch, tone, volume
Rehearsal skills
Aims, blocking, given circumstances, improvisation, intentions, research, sub-text, super-objectives, units & objectives
When the audience sit on one side of the stage only, facing in the same direction
End on
When the audience are placed all around the outside of the performers’ playing space. The stage area may be circular or square, with entrances and exits through the audience
In-the-round
When the audience can move around and follow the action during a performane
Promenade
End on staging on only one side of the stage but in an older style theatre with a decorative arch framing the whole stage
Proscenium arch
When the audience surround the stage on three sides, and the other side connects to the backstage area
Thrust
When the audience is placed on either side of the actors’ playing space or stage facing each other
Traverse
Style
Naturalistic, non-naturalistic (exaggerated/stylised)
Genres
Dance, melodrama, musical theatre, opera, pantomime, physical theatre, plays, theatre in education, tragicomedy
Stage positions
USL, USC, USR, CSL, CS, CSR, LSL, LSC, LSR
An open circular or oval building with a central space surrounded by tiers of seats for spectators, for the presentation of dramatic or sporting events
Amphitheatre
The part of a theatre, concert hall, or other public building in which the audience sit
Auditorium
A versatile studio space that is painted black
Black box
