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This type of puppet figure is the most familiar and popular to Western audiences.

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Purposeful action performed as a result of given circumstances that leads to an emotion is called ________.

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The actor's process of combining the inner approach to acting, truthfulness and believability, with physical training into a single whole is called _____________________.

Once a society determines the characteristics of a social role, these characteristics cannot be changed.

When one person mimics or copies another's vocal patterns, gestures, facial expressions, posture, and the like, this is called

Throughout theatre history, regardless of the predominant acting style of the day, the actors that were singled out as being the greatest of their generation were always those actors who made certain to overemphasize their emotions with excessive physical movement.

Which of the following is NOT one of the responsibilities of a performer in the theatre?

Even more contemporary actor training methods based on the books/teachings of Uta Hagen, Robert Cohen, Robert Benedetti, Sanford Meisner, and Stella Adler, to name a few, are still based on essential training methods introduced by Stanislavsky around the turn of the twentieth century.

What does Shakespeare's Hamlet mean when he says the following? "Be not too tame neither, but let your discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature."

Acquiring the special physical and vocal skills that stage performance demands is an ________ aspect of acting.

Although every actor needs to work on both inner and outer aspects of acting, it is best to develop all of the inner aspects of character development first that will allow the actor to more easily develop the physical movement and vocal aspects of the character.

Asian theatre training and the type of actor training that is common in the U.S. are virtually the same kind of training, focusing on the same kind of movement and vocal performance styles.

If children use imitation and role-playing as a way of learning, what effect does what they see in popular entertainment have on their development? At what point, if any, do these effects diminish? In a society such as ours, which is flooded with images from popular entertainment, how can children be shielded from negative ideas? Should they be shielded?

In the United States, sports figures are seen as role models for young people and are expected to maintain certain standards of behavior-in some instances, perhaps higher standards than those expected of other people. Does this mean that sports figures are in some sense actors and actresses? Discuss.

General roles recognized by society, such as father, mother, child, police officer, store clerk, teacher, student, business executive, and so on are called

Analyze in detail a three-dimensional character from a play by one of the following dramatists: lbsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Williams, or O'Neill. What does the character want? How does the character try to get what he or she wants? What social roles does this character play? Personal roles? What aspects of personality help the character in attaining goals? What aspects hinder the attainment of goals?

In order to throw the voice into the audience so that it penetrates to the uttermost reaches of the theatre, the performer must

Acting alternated between exaggerated and more natural styles in

Carefully examine a role in a play or film, following it from beginning to end. Note the special requirements the performance of this role demands.

Training in tai chi chuan can be valuable for an actor, as it serves as an excellent focused exercise for an actor's body awareness and, due to the graceful nature of the core regimen of movement, it also serves as a form of meditation to help the actor prepare.