Objectives, Tactics, Obstacles, and Blocking

a force or reason that causes someone to do something.

• objective/objetivo(a)

• super-objective/objetivo(a)-principal

• motivation/motivación

• obstacles/obstáculos

• tactics/táctica

what your character wants in the entire play.

• objective/objetivo(a)

• super-objective/objetivo(a)-principal

• motivation/motivación

• obstacles/obstáculos

• tactics/táctica

how characters move from one area to another on stage; also their spatial relationships (proxemics) to others and things.

• blocking/bloqueo

• away/lejos

• toward/hacia

• stage picture/foto del escenario

• focal point/punto focal

the methods (the techniques, plans, strategies, and actions) your character uses to accomplish their objective.

• objective/objetivo(a)

• super-objective/objetivo(a)-principal

• motivation/motivación

• obstacles/obstáculos

• tactics/táctica

everything that prevents your character from accomplishing their objective.

• objective/objetivo(a)

• super-objective/objetivo(a)-principal

• motivation/motivación

• obstacles/obstáculos

• tactics/táctica

an arrangement or grouping formed onstage by the performers; sometimes called a "tableau".

• blocking/bloqueo

• away/lejos

• toward/hacia

• stage picture/foto del escenario

• focal point/punto focal

what your character wants in a single scene; this may be different than what they want in the entire play.

• objective/objetivo(a)

• super-objective/objetivo(a)-principal

• motivation/motivación

• obstacles/obstáculos

• tactics/táctica

a key point of interest in your stage picture where you want to direct attention towards.

• blocking/bloqueo

• away/lejos

• toward/hacia

• stage picture/foto del escenario

• focal point/punto focal

turned to, looking at, or moving in the direction of something or someone; usually how characters move in relation to "good" things or things that they want.

• blocking/bloqueo

• away/lejos

• toward/hacia

• stage picture/foto del escenario

• focal point/punto focal

turned from, looking elsewhere, or moving in the opposite direction from something or someone; usually how characters move in relation to "bad" things or things that they don't want.

• blocking/bloqueo

• away/lejos

• toward/hacia

• stage picture/foto del escenario

• focal point/punto focal