Bell WorkBell Work  Copy the agenda from the board.  If you have any questions from Friday’s lesson, please write them on the other board. We will discuss them as a class.

Week 1Week 1 1. Articulation : The clear and precise pronunciation of words 2. Articulators: The parts of the body that create consonant sounds 3. Gesture: an expressive movement of the body or limbs 4. Improvise: to speak or act without a script 5. Inflections: variety in speech 6. Pantomime: to act without words through facial expression and gesture 7. Project: to make your voice fill the performance space 8. Resonance: a quality caused by vibration that enriches vocal tone 9. Resonators: the parts of the body that create vowel sounds 10. Method acting: An approach that calls on the actor to use personal experience and sense memory to develop a character. 11. Sense Memory: a remembering of the five senses; the first step of Stanislavsky’s method

Week 2Week 2 1. Apron: the acting area of the stage that extends beyond the proscenium 2. Arena stage: a performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round 3. Downstage: the stage area toward the audience 4. House: the auditorium, or the area where the audience sits 5. Production concept: how the play should look and feel 6. Proscenium stage: a performance space in which the audience views the actions as if though a picture frame 7. Scenery: onstage decoration to help establish the time and place of a play 8. Stage manager: the director’s technical liaison backstage during rehearsals and performance 9. Thrust stage: a combination of the proscenium and the arena stages, with the audience sitting on two or three sides of the acting area 10. Upstage: the stage area away from the audience

Make sure you cite!Make sure you cite! Card, Orson Scott., and John Harris. Ender's Game. New York: Tor, Print.

Week 3Week 3 1. Director: oversees the entire process of staging a production 2. Staging: coordinating everything that actually happens onstage 3. Producer: handles the business end of a production; secures rights to the play, raises money, hires actors and staff, arranges for the rental of the theatre, and supervises publicity and ticket sales 4. Assistant director: helps keeps the rehearsal process organized and running smoothly, taking on duties that range from coordinating rehearsal schedules and rehearsing movement with actors 5. Prompter: feeds lines to actors when they forget them 6. Business manager: responsible for fundraising, publicity, programs, ticket sales, and paying bills 7. Artistic director: hires the director, cast, and designers 8. Box office: where playgoers can buy tickets 9. House: the auditorium; the area where the audience sits. 10. Orchestra pit: the area for musicians 11. Emotional memory: the technique of calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character

Week 4Week 4 1. Mezzanine: a lower balcony 2. Light booth: houses the technicians who control the lights 3. Sound booth: houses the technicians who control the music and special sound effects 4. Stage house: area including the stage where the actors perform 5. Fly space: the area above the stage where the lights and scenery may be flown or suspended on ropes 6. Proscenium arch: the picture frame through which the scenery and action are viewed 7. Scenery: onstage decoration to help establish the time and place 8. Fire curtain: consists of a metal or fireproof fabric to prevent fire from spreading 9. Act curtain: made of a lighter fabric and used between scenes 10. Grand drape: the front curtain

Week 5Week 5 1. Apron: an acting area that extends forward beyond the arch 2. Backstage: all areas other than the acting space 3. Prop table: where all items carried onstage by the actors are placed 4. Call board: a bulletin board on which are posted rehearsal times, performance changes, and special notices 5. Dressing rooms: where actors prepare 6. Green room: a lounge area in which actors may wait while not onstage or greet audience members after the performance 7. Scene shop: where scenery is built 8. Costume shop: where costumes are made and stored 9. Stage right: refers to your right as you face the audience 10. Stage left: refers to your left as you face the audience 11. Upstage: away from the audience 12. Downstage: toward the audience 13. Centerstage: the center of the acting area

Week 6Week 6 1. Batten: a wood or metal pipe from which stage lights, drops, and scenery are hung 2. Cue: a signal for something to happen 3. Backdrop: a large canvas or muslin curtain that hangs at the back of the stage setting 4. Flat: a set piece consisting of a light-weight frame covered with canvas, muslin, or wood 5. Platform: a set piece with a solid top and braced legs, made to support the weight of actors, furniture, and props 6. Prop: anything that an actor handles onstage as well as furniture and other items used to enhance the set 7. Set: the onstage physical space and its structures in which the actors perform 8. Stage crew: the group of people working on set construction, props, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup 9. Throw: the distance light can be cast from a lighting instrument

Week 7Week 7 1. Beat: small section of a scene, divided where a shift in emotion or topic occurs 2. Cold reading: auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition 3. Cross: to move from one place onstage to another 4. Focus: the intended point of interest onstage 5. Master gesture: a characteristic gesture 6. Open: to keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible 7. Shared position: a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor’s body position 8. Subtext: information that is implied but not stated by a character; thoughts or actions of a character that may not express the same meaning as the spoken words 9. Upstage: to stand upstage of another actor on a proscenium stage, forcing the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor; stealing the focus of a scene

Week 8Week 8 1. Illusion of the First Time: The actor’s ability to perform in a show over and over while making it appear that the dialogue and situations are happening for the first time. 2. Fourth wall: the imaginary wall through which the audience views the play 3. Monologue: A long speech spoken by one actor. 4. Motivation: A specific reason for saying or doing something. 5. Off book: Having a part memorized so that a script is no longer needed. 6. Raked stage: A slanted stage, where upstage is slightly higher than downstage 7. Reader’s theatre: A form of theatre in which actors are seated and read aloud from a script. 8. Run-through: A rehearsal without interruption. 9. Sightlines: Imaginary lines indicating visibility of stage areas from different points in the house. 10. Prompt book: A book (usually in a 3-ring binder) that contains the script with the director’s ideas and blocking notations.

Week 9Week 9 1. Motivation: a character’s reason for doing anything; motivation determines the character’s objectives 2. Objective: a character’s goals 3. Obstacle: anything that prevents a character from reaching his or her goals 4. Outcome: the result of a character’s actions 5. Stakes: the consequences of the outcome 6. Status quo: present circumstances of a character 7. Master gesture: a characteristic gesture 8. Leading center: the part of a character’s body that leads in movements and reflects the nature of the character. 9. Shared position: a position commonly used for brief scenes between two actors onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor’s body position, usually a one-quarter position 10. Focus: the intended point of interest onstage