Random Vocab

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To make up words and or actions as one goes along. To perform or rehearse without a script.

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Improvise

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Money paid to the publishing house and playwright for permission to produce a play

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Royalty

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Area where the audience sits

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House

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Imaginary barriers between the actors and audience

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Fourth wall

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To move and counter so that you can be seen by the audience

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Open up

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To increase the volume of your voice so that you can be heard by all members of the audience

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Project

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The struggle between two opposing forces

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Conflict

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The main events that occur in a story. The story line.

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Plot

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Time and place

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Setting

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A specific reason which supports a character’s purpose in a scene

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Motivation

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A character’s goal in a scene

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Objective

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People whom the actors become

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Characters

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To move anything from the stage

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Strike

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To begin one’s lines immediately after the other character finishes; to shorten the time between lines

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Pick up cues

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Anything which gets in the way of a character’s objective in a scene and makes it his/her goal hard to reach

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Obstacle

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The planned motivation a character goes about achieving what he/she wants in a scene

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Strategy

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The stage area closest to the audience

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Downstage

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The stage area furthest from the audience

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Upstage

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The areas left and right behind the precinium

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Wings

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The area behind the set

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Backstage

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The concept, image, idea, or problem upon which you are asked to focus

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Point of concentration

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A period of stretching, relaxing, vocal preperation, and focus building

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Warmups

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Keep your mind on a specific point or point of concentration

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Focus

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Your instructor gives comments out loud to help you in a scene while your acting

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Side coaching

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Supervises rehearsals, helps actors create characters, works with the designers, is responsible for the overall vision and production of the play

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Director

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The list of actions a character goes through to play the objective of the scene

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Action score

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Major, planned movements made by an actor in a play

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Blocking

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Maintaining character in a scene, no matter what happens

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Control

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A character’s description written in first person and in the character’s own words

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Who

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Feeling the need to talk about what you’re doing so the audience “gets it”

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