Acting Terminology

2. The reason for your action
4. sending the voice to all areas of the theatre
6. monologue Technique of expressing your real feelings between the phrases of the text
8. The point at which you either overcome an obstacle and/or reach a new emotional level previously unattainable
10. The reason you and/or your character take an action
11. An unrehearsed scene, in your own, extemporaneous words
14. when a character is alone on stage and speaks, usually to the audience
15. the connection between your character and the other characters in the play

1. exploring, or creating a past event from your life for use in a scene or character (also called Affective Memory or Emotional Recall)
3. a section of the play spoken by one actor as wither part of a scene or alone on the stage. Performed within the context of a play or removed from the play in auditions.
5. The person whom you are playing
7. technical switch from the end of one beat to the beginning of the next
9. Physical behaviors or 'tics' pinpointing the uniqueness of the character
12. What you do to get what your character wants
13. The physical arrangement of the actors' movement on stage