Deck 7: The Art of Acting

Question 1

The ability to understand and identify with another's situation, feelings, and motives so completely that you feel you are experiencing that situation and those emotions is called…

Answer 1

Empathy

Question 2

This can include broad topics such as upbringing, religion, and social standing, but it can also include what happened to the character the moment before he or she entered the stage.

A) The Given Circumstances
B) The Ten Questions of Acting
C) Affirmative Acting
D) The Characters Flaw
E) The Magic if

Answer 2

A

Question 3

This acting technique allows actors to find similarities between themselves and the character and to explore the resulting emotions and thoughts by asking an important question.

A) The Magic if
B) Emotionalism
C) Impassioned Dramatics
D) The Ten Questions of Acting
E) Acting from the inside out

Answer 3

A

Question 4

When actors have little or no emotional bond with a character, they replace the character's emotions with unrelated but personal emotions of their own. This technique is called…

A) Swapping Out
B) Empathy
C) Switcheroo
D) Substitution
E) Acting from the inside out

Question 5

When actors thinks back over certain incidents in their lives and remember them well enough to relive the accompanying emotions, it is called…

A) Catharsis
B) Emotionalism
C) Impassioned Dramatics
D) Emotional Memory
E) Temperamental Acting

Question 6

What is the method Stanislavsky advocated to help actors get to the point of feeling a strong empathy for his/her character?

Question 7

In this type of audition the actors are only given about a minute to perform. What is this type of fast-moving audition called?

Question 8

Which is not an actor's union?

A) Actor's Equity Association
B) SAG
C) AFTRA
D) WGA

Question 9

If a character's inner conflict is powerful enough to affect his or her good judgment and cause the character to make unfortunate choices, it is called a…

Question 10

How much are actors paid in an Equity waiver production?

A) Little to nothing
B) Fifty Dollars per show
C) One hundred dollars per show
D) Five hundred dollars per show
E) They get free acting lessons only

Question 11

The most important want or driving force that governs the actions of the character during the entire play is called…

A) Major Decision
B) Given circumstances
C) The Drive System
D) The Driving Chain
E) Superobjective

Question 12

This is the small room where the actors wait to make their entrances.

A) Calming Blue Room
B) Room
C) Station Room
D) Green Room
E) Exit/Entrance Room

Question 13

This is another term for digital actors.

A) Syndramatics
B) Digitalized Dramatics
C) Synthespians
D) Digital Signature Thespians
E) Digits

Question 14

Stanislavsky is perhaps the most famous acting teacher of the twentieth century. His method of acting became known as…

Question 15

One key to understanding a character's motivation is to look at it from the character's point of view. A well-drawn character is always attempting to change negatives into positives. This is called…

A) Impassioned Dramatics
B) Positive motivation
C) Affirmative Acting
D) Constructive Actions
E) Emotional Memory