Stanislavski

Stanislavski believed the audience should ....

• question what is happening on stage

• be purely entertained by the drama

• believe in what is happening on stage and feel empathy towards the characters

• be involved in the performance and the fourth wall should be broken

The actor can use their own experiences in life to portray a believable character this is method is called

• believable response

• imagination

• magic if

• emotion memory

Stanislavski stated that as an actor you should

• learn your lines and pretend to be the character

• leave your own problems at the door

• believe that you are the character and the audience will believe it too.

• Play more than one character in a play

A given circumstance is

• The circumstances that the actor is placed in - the theatre they will act in, the costume they will wear.

• created by the playwright as a tool for creation and development of a character. They are the essential information about the characters past lives.

• The varying speeds and timings of the actions and speech on stage coincide to produce a rhythm.

• The costume a character will wear.

Students must mime getting ready in the bathroom – washing their face, brushing their teeth, putting on their clothes.

Students must follow the speed of the drum beat to show how the character is feeling whilst doing these things.

This technique is called

• Magic if

• Tempo rhythm

• Change of speed

• Dancing

The fourth wall is

• stage left

• stage right

• upstage

• downstage

What is Stanslavski's acting approach called

• Method acting

• Acting techniques

• Believable acting

• Realistic acting

The Stanislavski System is a intense character development process that strives to make a performance

• Exciting

• Melodramatic

• Realistic

• Believable

What is the 'magic if' sometimes used when referring to Stanislavski's work?

• What would happen to the performance if the set was to break

• The question of whether a role can be performed onstage or not

• The idea of the actor posing the question, "What would the character do in this situation?" and acting the role accordingly

• The actor research ideas for what to do if their character cried.

What would you expect to see on a realistic stage set?

• Real props but a bare stage

• A stage with a backdrop painted to represent where the play is set

• Furniture and props that look as if they belong in real life

• Basic props that are used to suggest the real thing