Acting Skills Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a characteristic gesture
  2. 6. the intended point of interest on the stage
  3. 8. to keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible
  4. 9. your memory of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures
  5. 10. small section of a scene, divided where a shift in emotion or topic occurs
  6. 12. observing other people and the world around you as a source of inspiration
  7. 13. to move from one placer on stage to another
Down
  1. 1. used when you are creating a whole new character or when you are playing a scripted character
  2. 3. a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's exact body position
  3. 4. auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition
  4. 5. the technique of calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
  5. 7. information that is implied but not stated by a character
  6. 11. to stand upstage of another actor on a proscenium stage, forcing the downstage actor to have to turn away from the audience