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Leading Center
A slight or exaggerated movement of a part of the body that shows a character's personality, such as brave characters leading with their chest.
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Cheat Out
A stage technique where an actor pivots the torso and turns the face toward tthe audience
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Share a Scene
Two actors standing or sitting parallel to each other
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Subtext
Character interpretations which are not in a script, but are supplied by an actor
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Memorizing
Committing the lines of a script to memory
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Whole-Part Memorization
Committing to memory indivudual lines of a script after whole units of the play have been read several times
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Part-Whole Memorization
Studying cues or lines of script line-by-line until committed to memory.
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Playing the Moment
Responding to each line, action, and character in the permanent present, such as an actor not opening the door before the knock.
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Working Backwords
A technique in which an actor prepares the audience for what a character will do later.
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Paraphrasing
Restating lines in your own words.
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Substitution
The use by an actor of a personal experience of a character within a play
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Improvising
Performing without preparation
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Cutt-Off Lines
- Lines interrupted by another speaker
- Indicated in the script by dashes (---)
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Fade-Off Lines
Lines that actors trail off because they do not finish them
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Picking up of Cues
Speaking immediately on the last word of the previous speaker for rapid speech, or attaching your line to the former speech, with no space between
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Laugh Curve
The audience's reaction that actors listen for in order to anticipate the length of time the audience will laugh.
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Knap
The second sound after landing a blow- a sliding, slapping sound or clap
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Ad-Lib
To extemporize stage business or conversation
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At-Rise
Who and what are on stage when the curtain opens
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Back or Backstage
The area behind the part of the stage that is visible to the audience
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