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Actors. Chapter 3

Helen Coleman avatar Helen Coleman
21 August 2022
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A perfect example of the actors nemesis is:
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Stage fright.
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What are the Two fundamental notions/approaches of acting?
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Internal and external.
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The types of performing that asks the actor to experience the life of the character being played is:
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Internal.
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Actors who mimic or imagine how their characters should walk, talk, and behave, using their imagination, or said to demonstrate techniques of the ________ of acting.
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External.
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What is "the Method"?
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A realistic American acting style derived from the Russian actor-director Konstantin Stanislavsky's self-proclaimed system and made popular by Lee Strasberg in New York.
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Stanislavsky felt it was important for actors to focus on:
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The inner life of the character.
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Today, the best method of acting:
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Is an integration of both forms—internal and external acting.
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Stanislavski insisted the actors needed to discover their character's:
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Goal.
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Which is the actors instrument?
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Body and voice.
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Which of the following is a paradox of acting?
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Actors must act as if they are the character and yet also be aware of their technique. A great amount of effort must go into seeming effortless. Actors should pretend to feel in emotion rather than actually feel it.
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The three main elements of the actor's approach are goals, tactics, and:
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Researching the style of the play and mode of performance.
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Which faculty keeps the actor with an established bounds in at the same time ensures artistic agility?
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Discipline.
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"Tactics" refers to:
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The methods actors use to achieve their goal.
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Konstantin Stanislavski, founder of the Moscow Art Theatre (1989), said, "You must live the life of your character on stage." Which style of acting does the statement describes most closely?
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The internal mode of acting.
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Actors are expected to take care of their body and such are expected to:
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Take regular trips to the gym— required of many acting schools.
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A challenge faced by stage actors but that is unknown to film actors is:
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Maintaining a high level of spontaneity.
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Stanislavsky's system stresses the actors work with the "zadacha", which refers to:
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The character's "problem" or "goal", what the character desires to achieve.
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Most professional auditions consist of performing:
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One- or two-minute contrasting monologues from plays.
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Which of the following does The director not typically look for in an audition?
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Personal history that exactly matches that of the character.
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"Blocking" refers to:
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Stage movements.
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Directed stage actions that are precisely scripted behaviors worked out in blocking are called:
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Stage business.
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The term "subject" refers to:
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A character's unspoken and undescribed goals.