1. Chapter 4
Acting

2. Emotional or Subjective Acting
Technical or Objective Acting

3. Leading Roles
Protagonist

4. Antagonist
Supporting Roles

5. Straight Parts
Character Parts

6. Characterization
Primary Source

7. Secondary Sources
Body Language

8. Master Gesture
Inflection

9. Subtext
Substitution

10. Improvisation
Paraphrasing

11. Objective: Students will develop a special terminology used for acting
Objective: Students will understand, practice and learn skills for Acting
Objective: Students will develop a special terminology used for acting

12. Objective: Students will identify what it means “to act”.
Objective: Students will identify the different types of roles for a performer
Objective: Students will identify what it means “to act”.

13. Special Language of Acting
Ad-lib
At Rise
Back or backstage
Bit part
Building a scene
Business
Countercross
Cover
Cross
Cue
Curtain
Cut
Cut in
Down or Downstage
Dressing the Stage
Enter
Exit or Exeunt
Feeding
Foil
Hand Props

14. Special Language of Acting
Hit
Holding for Laughs
Leading center
Left and Right
Master Gesture
Milk
Off or Offstage
On or Onstage
Overlap
Pace
Personal Props
Places
Plot
Pointing Lines
Principals
Properties or Props

15. Special Language of Acting
Ring up
Role Scoring
Script Scoring
Set
Set Props
Sides
Stealing a Scene
Subtext
Tag Line
Taking the Stage
Tempo
Timing
Top
Up or Upstage
Upstaging
Walk-on
Warn cue