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| the physical pursuance of a specific goal |
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The process whereby the action of a scene is determined. It is derived from these 3 questions:
1. What is the character literally doing?
2. What is the essential action of what the character is doing in the scene?
3. What is that action like to me? It's as if... |
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| The answer to question 3 of the analysis. It is the simple fantasy that makes specific for you the action you have chosen in step 2 of the analysis; it is a mnemonic device serving to bring the action to life in you. |
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| A single unit of action. A scene may comprise one or more of these. |
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| The point during a scene where a new action begins. It occurs when a new place of information is introduced or an event takes place over which the character has no control and which its very nature must change what the actor is doing. |
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| The event or condition indicating that an actor has succeeded in doing his action. |
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| The illusion created by the words and given circumstances supplied by the playwright and director combined with the actions and externals of the actor. |
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| The single element that defines what the character is doing in a scene, without which the scene will not work. (see action) |
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| Any piece of information of activity written into the script or demanded by the director comprising the imaginary framework within which an action is performed. |
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| Reacting impulsively to what the other actor in a scene does, according to the dictates of your action |
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| A device designed to help someone remember something: a fact, idea, condition, etc. |
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| A specific bit of stage business the actor chooses to aid his action |
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| A knowledge of the tools that may be used and an understand of how to apply those tools. |
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| The different ways an actor might go about doing an action |
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| The single overriding action that encompasses all the actions an actor pursues from scene to scene, from the beginning of a play to the end. |
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