Year 7 Drama Important Terminology

What could involve creating a storyboard, drawing a concept map and/or writing a dot-point scene structure?

How you and your group use the performance area to engage your audience is called?

What is a performance skill that relies completely on physical movement and gestures to tell a story?

What is a convention of Ancient Greek Theatre where a group of actors move and speak as one, often narrating key moment?

What is the amount of concentration required to play a character or perform a scene?

Movement is NOT one of the core skills in acting.

Deciding where to stand in the performance space and when to move to create action is called:

What is the ability to describe in writing key moments of your performance work and describe what was successful?

The ways we can use our voice, movement, facial expressions and gestures to create characters describes:

What is a performance skill that asks the actor to come up with characters spontaneously?

What was the first formal theatre style?

What is a skill in improvisation whereby an actor ‘gifts’ another actor an idea through verbal or physical means?