Intro to Theatre Ch 6 and Notes

Stanislavsky emphasizes specificity, which includes

• never playing an emotion

• playing a concrete action and letting the emotion happen indirectly

• focusing on a very specific action, one rooted in the "given circumstances"

• paying attention to the "imaginary circumstances" and building off indirect actions

What is the best way to judge the ethos of a character or a person in everyday life

• tactic

• objective

• superobjective

• obstacle

What are the 3 general pillars of training

• acting

• vocal training

• movement work

• stage presence

The person who rehearses the performers and coordinates their work with that of others such as the designers to make certain the event is performed appropriately, intelligently, and excitingly

• director

• stage manager

• costume designer

• musical director

The director works very close with the _____ who oversees the more technical aspects so the director can be creative

• stage manager (SM)

• stage crew (SC)

• crew manager (CM)

• designer (D)

The director ____ the play

• sculpts

• builds

• masters

• creates

______ and the Greeks acted and directed (as well as composed and choreographed) their plays

• Aeschylus

• Freud

• Plato

• Aristotle

The rise of realism and our more "international" society led to

• the role of the modern director

• the role of stage management

• the idea of a "professional director board"

• the role of crew manager

_____ was a German opera composer who emphasized unification of all aspects of his work

• Richard Wagner

• George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

• Francis Vaghn

• Alexanddio Suxdorf

Richard Wagner emphasized the concept of _______ which means "total work of art", or the idea of art itself