Acting area(s) designated stage spots for actor's different emotions. Position(s) on stage designed by the actor's performance for different emotional states.
Action Dramatic motion in subjective space and time.
Acting Styles A particular manner of acting which reflects cultural and historical influences.
Actor "a performer who developed in himself the art of inner and outer mimicry and incarnation" (Richard Boleslavsky on Stanislavsky System). Initiator, leader and organizer of the material (the actor and medium are one and the same thing). (Biomechanics)
Actor's Text Actor's performance; broken down dramatic text, with ground plan, positions, acting areas, stage directions written in by the performer.
Alienation effect A stage technique developed by Bertold Brecht in the 1920s and 1930s for "estranging" the action of the play. By making characters and their action seem alien, separate from actors. Three ways of establishing A-effect: third person reference to yourself, and songs.
Aristotle Greek philosopher (384-322 b.c.), first drama critic, The Poetics.
Audience Public, second actor's ego is made up of those who witness the event through dramatic (emotional, intellectual) participation.
Biomechanics Theatre system of performance and training developed by Meyerhold. The technique emphasized the movement on stage, the study of preparation for a certain action: emotional and physical state of the moment of action itself: and the resulting anti-climax of reaction (see Cycle).
Blocking The placement and movement of actors in a dramatic presentation.
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