FUNDAMENTALS OF THEATRE I DOWNSTAGE The area of the stage closest to the audience STAGE LEFT The left side of the stage from the actors perspective as he or she faces the audience STAGE RIGHT ID: 565780
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STAGE DIRECTIONS
FUNDAMENTALS OF THEATRE
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DOWN-STAGE
The area of the stage closest to the audience.Slide3
STAGE LEFT
The left side of the stage from the actor’s perspective as he or she faces the audience.Slide4
STAGE RIGHT
The right side of the stage from the actor’s perspective as he or she faces the audience.Slide5
UPSTAGE
The stage area farthest away from the audience.Slide6
UPSTAGING
Drawing the audience’s attention to yourself when it should be focused on another character.Slide7
Stage directionsSlide8
CROSS
When an actor moves from one side of the stage to another.Slide9
COUNTER-CROSS
Moving in the opposite direction – and out of the way- of another actor who is moving across the stage.Slide10
Stage DirectionsSlide11
BLOCKING
Blocking is the
director’s
planned movement for the actor’s. Blocking tells an actor how his or her character gets from one place to another in a scene. It supports communication between characters and creates a visual picture that affects the audience. There are strength to each stage area. Slide12
BLOCKING AND MOVING
UR: strong entrance, comfortable, familiar, soft, romantic.
UL: spiritual, fanciful, dark, metaphysical, good-byes, infinity, ghostliness, unfamiliar, depression, supernatural scenes, background scenes, scenes of isolation and despair.
DR: intimate, romantic, strong area, warm, informal, tender, intimate love scenes, informal calls, confessions, gossip, long narratives, position of power, Narrators usually stand DR.
DL: cooler, unsure, unhappy relationships, distant intimacy, funny, secondary romance, conspiracies, casual love scenes, soliloquies, formal and business matters.UC: judgmental, conviction, regal, aloof, noble, superiority, stability, formal love scenes, royalty.DC: authoritarian, decisive, hard, intense, harsh, strong, climactic, great formality, quarrels, fights, crises.Slide13
BODY POSITIONS
Full front (FF)
One quarter left (1/4 L)
Profile left (PL)
Three quarters left (3/4 L)Full back (FB)One quarter right (1/4 R)Profile right (PR)Three quarters right (3/4 R)Slide14
BINDER
Keep the handouts you’ve been given in your theatre binder.
Get ready to go to
the theatre. Slide15
STAGE POSTURE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd7XSEP8wd0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=l66VqdnmMO4