2008 class [test] -- http://biomechanics.vtheatre.net/test.html

Part 1. Terminology

1. What is (dramatic) Exposition for actor?  

2. What do we call "master gesture"?

3. Who is Meyerhold?

4. Name main elements of Method Acting.

5. What is super-objective?

6. How is concept of "role" different from "character"?

7. What is "Forth Wall" in theatre?

8. What are "5Ws"?

9. What do we call "Epic Theatre"?

10. Your favorite chracter (and why).

Part 2 : Monologue-Scene

ROSENCRANTZ:

... Do you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?
GUIL: No.
ROS: Nor do I, really.... It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead ... which should make a difference ... shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box, would you? It would be just like being asleep in a box. Not that I'd like to sleep in a box, mind you, not without any air - you'd wake up dead, for a start and then where would you be? Apart from inside a box. That's the bit I don't like, frankly. That's why I don't think of it....
(GUIL stirs restlessly, pulling his cloak round him.)
Because you'd be helpless, wouldn't you? Stuffed in a box like that, I mean you'd be in there for ever. Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, really ... ask yourself, if I asked you straight off - I'm going to stuff you in this box now, would you rather be alive or dead? Naturally, you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all. I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking - well, at least I'm not dead! In a minute someone's going to bang on the lid and tell me to come out. (Banging on the floor with his fists.) "Hey you, whatsyername! Come out of there!"
GUIL (jumps up savagely): You don't have to flog it to death!

[ analysis for acting2 ]

WRITE :

Monologue Analysis [Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead] :

1. dramatic composition [ exposition, climax, resolution ]

2. "Actor's Text"

Emotion -- left, motion -- right margins (write your own stage directions)

3. 9 SQUARES ideas [floor plan]

4. What is subtext in this monologue?

5. What role of Guildenstern in this scene?

...from ROS page [act 2]