Rehearsal Techniques 1

Role on the wall

• is a list of qualities about a character

• diagram of the character's inner and outer emotions and behaviours

• is when you put yourself in a character's shoes

• it's a gingerbread person that you decorate

the 'magic if'

• is when you think about what you would do if you had...

• is when you ask the audience what they would do

• is where you think about 'if I was the character what would I do/think/feel?'

• is when a character tells another character what they would do

a play is normally divided up into

• acts

• chapters

• scenes

• pages

an act is usually divided up into

• units

• paragraphs

• chapters

• scenes

an actor can divide a scene into

• sections

• units

• stanzas

• chunks

a unit is

• an equal amount of lines for each character

• a passage of time

• a part of a scene where a character has a specific motivation or intention

• the dramatic term for a chapter

a characters super objective is

• what they want in a scene

• what they want in a unit

• what they want in a line

• what they want throughout the play

a characters objective is

• what they want in a scene

• what they want in a unit

• what they want in a line

• what they want in the whole play

emotional recall is when

• as an actor you think about when you were sad

• as an actor you think of a real time in your life when you felt the same/similar emotion to your character

• as an actor you write down all the character's thoughts and feelings

• as an actor you think of sad things so you can fake cry

the practitioner who created and practised naturalism is

• Stanislavski

• Brecht

• Boal

• Frantic Assembly