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    Drama Prose or verse telling a story intended for representation by actors through dialogue or action. The Play Playwright : person who writes plays. Script : printed copy of a play. Acts : the major sections of a play. Scene : small section or portion of a play. The People Actor: male performer Actress: female performer Cast: all performers selected to portray characters. Director: instructs actors on how to portray characters. Areas of the Stage Backstage: area behind scenery not visible

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    Acting on Emotion

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    Acting on Emotions Sophocles designs his plays to instruct his audience members to behave morally correct. People’s actions are ruled by their emotions (jealousy‚ suspicion‚ anger‚ pride‚ and love) and it leads to negative effects for them. But when acting in a sage demeanor‚ it gives evidence to a person’s character. Sophocles writes his characters to be ruled by their emotions and to teach people to behave in a prudent demeanor. Sophocles designs his plays to have the people of authority act

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    Pierre Peterson pg. 1 Paper #2 Reflections of Cosby Bill Cosby puts all African Americans in the category of ignorant and ghetto‚ living in the lower class. In the text he often attacks single mothers with no father in the household. Also‚ he attacks innocent children with bad parenting. I believe Cosby makes such statements because most of them are true. Even though I am a part of the minority or lower class I strongly agree and disagree with Cosby’s remarks. That’s because it is a high percentage

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    Acting to Lying

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    Many things can be said about the similarities of acting and lying. Both spin a falsehood‚ leading the audience deeper and deeper into the trap until the very end when they are released. Both force the performer into a position where they are not entirely themselves and not entirely in control of what they say or do. Liars and actors wear many masks. These masks can be literal changes in the physical nature of the person‚ or they can be a change in character. Character changes can often consume

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    Paradox Of Acting

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    The Paradox of Acting (1773-8) is an essay written by French philosopher Denis Diderot (1713-1784). Much of his acclaim comes from his translation and supplements to Ephraim Chambers’ five-volume Cyclopaedia: Or‚ Universal Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences (1728). Conservative opponents condemned the project‚ noting it "was not an innocent compilation of existing knowledge. In its pages‚ nature replaced Providence and determinism superseded God’s will as the guiding forces of the world" (Rosenblum

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    through ages. What is differnce between method acting and character acting? Character acting you become the person. method acting when actors try to replicate real life emotional conditions. Method acting means creating the emotion in yourself. when you become you character not just act the character you feel the characters pain and joy. method acting is basically when the character becomes emotionally connected with their character. Method acting is when the actor uses a particular memory from

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    and making up different voices to make people laugh‚ so why not make a career out of it? The pathway to success in the acting industry is winding and hard; I’ll have to take classes‚ make demos‚ go to auditions‚ book jobs (LOTS of jobs)‚ and try to eventually land where I want to work—PBS Kids Sprout. Getting Started The absolute first thing on the path to voice-over acting is taking classes. Jim Duncan‚ a meteorologist in Richmond‚ Virginia said‚ “[he] just got thrown into being on TV and

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    Acting Reflection

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    Dylan Forest 1/27/13 I feel that I took a risk in creating this character. I made the character a complete jerk‚ because the character seems like he is a jerk because he acts very nonchalantly when his friend starts freaking out that his sister is in Playboy. I read the play about 35 times. I am the other character’s friend the evidence in the text is that they are hanging out‚ and the fact that they call each other ‘dude’ and that their dads know each other. My character advances the

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    Stanislavski Robbie white stanislavski’s methods of acting have helped me dramaticly over the years as i have been using some of his methods. he has also shaped the theater sytem as we know it making it what it is today. He created actors with a more realistic charecter compared to the past where ever play they performed was over the top but stanislavski wanted theatre to be more realistic because he belived that it was getting out of hand. Before stanislavski rehearsals

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    • If they an audience doesn’t feel empathy it becomes unbelievable • Journal entries are to be submitted for the class • Discussed acting exercises: Scanning‚ Color‚ PAR‚ Money‚ and Breaking up is hard to do • Hypertension is a no no • NO THINKING Diablo Valley College – Fall 2013 Drama-122-Section 2536 - Basic Principles of Acting 08/16/13 through 12/18/13 Instructor: Douglas Dildine Office: PA122 Email: ddildine@dvc.edu Office Hours: Wednesday – 9:00 am to 9:30 am

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