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WorksheetsDifferent Acting Techniques
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 12mins
Where was Konstantin Stanislavski originated from?
America
Spain
Russia
France
What is considered as the base of Stanislavski's Approach?
The Audience doesn't connect when actors in a play do Melodrama
The Audience is simply not sitting for Clapping at the end of Performance
The Audience will connect with the actor when they feel it is a Real Action
The Audience should connect with the play irrespective of the actions of Actor
Define the Term "Emotion Memory" that Stanislavski talks about in his Acting Method Technique?
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.
One of the techniques Stanislavski developed is called the magic ......
What
If
Who
When
The Stanislavski system/method includes.....
Bringing an actor's experiences into the role
Expanding an actor's imagination
Working on the character from the outside
Alienation of the audience
A 'con' of the Stanislavski system/method is.....
The risk of actors merging their personal lives with their characters’ lives in a psychologically unhealthy way
Actors may not have a relevant emotion memory to draw upon
It leaves too much room for improvisation
It's too easy
Emotion memory is when the actor ......
Refers to the character details and facts in the script given to them by the playwright
Considers what they would do and how they would react in their character's situation
Recalls their own life experiences that were similar to the character's situation
Remembers the subtext of the play to build their character
Stainslavski's students include:
Micheal Chekhov
Meryl Streep
Stella Adler
Robert DiNero
Which technique of acting would you use from now on after learning about the different acting techniques?
Stanislavski
Chekhov
Meisner
Realistic theatre used a set that had two or three walls that depicted an interior of a room that had authentic (real) props and furniture (Theatre Art in Action, p 328).
triangle set
box set
octagon set
square set
To help with my monologue, I aim to
Observe people in everyday life and write a biography of them and/or my monologue character
Practice sitting on a chair with purpose
Practice packing a bag with given circumstance
Use emotion memory, the magic "if", and/or given circumstance to build my monologue character
None of the above
