Across
- 5. The clearness of a person's speech
- 6. includes musical underscore to enhance mood, sound effects, and symbolic sound.
- 8. the most significant moment of tension or conflict in a drama and often occurs towards the end of the plot.
- 11. may be an exposed grid, a solid white wash, symbolic use of colour or wash, spotlight to aid focus
- 13. the emotional sound of the voice
- 14. what the story is truly about at its core.
- 16. slow transformation between characters
- 18. created live, by the actor, in the performance. Voice, body percussion and objects can be used individually or in combination to create sonic effects in performance and to enhance meaning.
- 20. the suspense that holds an audience’s attention as a performance unfolds
- 22. the position of a person’s upper body- spine when standing or sitting.
- 23. can include fragmentary, minimal, open stage, and transformable elements or pieces.
- 24. the speed at which lines are delivered
- 27. presents the dissimilar or the opposite in order to highlight or emphasise difference.
- 28. can include single items, minimal props, and transformable items.
- 29. associated with how a character stands overall including the placement of their hands and feet.
- 30. the building blocks of drama
- 34. a suite of techniques used by the performer at the moment of (and to enable the) actual “transformation” (of character, time, place and/or object) in the performance.
- 35. the way the performance area is used to communicate meaning, to define settings, to represent status and to create actor–audience relationships. This may be achieved through the use of levels, proximity and depth
- 38. the way people communicate with
- 39. occur as a result of small muscle movements in the face and are crucial for the actor.
Down
- 1. transformation through giving an item and receiving it as a different character
- 2. hands or other parts of the body.
- 3. a person’s manner of walking.
- 4. a performance where only one person performs a scripted solo that they did not write
- 6. fast transformation between characters
- 7. The manipulation of sound to become a character
- 9. The way in which a performer manipulates their body
- 10. a regular pattern of words, sounds or actions. Performances have their own that may be influenced by the emotional nature of the plot, the pace of line delivery, the dialogue (long and/or short lines), the pace of scene transitions and the length of scenes
- 12. generally occurs when a character cannot achieve an objective due to an obstacle. This obstacle may be internal or external and between characters, or between characters and their environment.
- 15. Created by Grotowski challenging the use of over the top production areas
- 17. the different areas that can be designed in a performance to enhance meaning
- 19. transforming into different items
- 21. where a performer will stress a particular word or phrase within a sentence to indicate importance.
- 25. moving through a range of people
- 26. moving through different settings
- 31. symbolic or tokenistic; one element, one colour; an aspect or representation of character(s)
- 32. the overall feeling or emotion that a performance may evoke. This may be achieved through manipulation of acting, conventions or production areas.
- 33. The ability for all audience members to hear you.
- 36. the highness or lowness of the voice
- 37. moving through time