B43 EXAM 2nd quarter

B43 - 2  Sec. I

I.  FANTASY

1.  Define it.

2.  Purpose in the study of acting

3.  List the basic principles which make its presentation successful.

4.  With relation to these basic principles, rate the work of one person who has appeared in the fantasy finals.

II.  IMAGINATION

1.  List its four basic attributes.

(Visualization, Internalization, Assimilation, Belief)

2.  Discuss the work of one leading character in the following productions in terms of the application or failure to apply these principles:   The Visit, Wild Strawberries, The Magician, Commedia dell Arte: Love of One Captain.

III.  THE VICARIOUS EXPERIENCE STUDY

1.  State its objective in an actor’s program of study

2.  Define, or explain, briefly, subtext.

3.  With relation to subtext, discuss the vicariious experience finals of one of the following:

  Kovarra, Shanks, Tucker.

B45 EXAM EARLY

B43-1   Sec. 20

In explaining the following statements, use examples of acting you have seen in U.T., W.T. or the commercial theatre.  Be explicit in your analysis of this acting.

1.  “Acting is re-acting.”

2.  “an actor acts with all that he is as a person.”

3.  “Acting is presenting character through behavior patterns which illuminate the character in given situations.”

With regard to an attempt to use sense memory in an acting assignment, a student says:  “I could recall the hurt and disappointment I suffered.  However, I could not recall the incident.”  What would be your advice to this actor?

B43 EXAM: END OF FIRST QUARTER

EXAMINATION   B43 -1

I.  Next quarter we study the creative aspect of acting.  Discuss our work this quarter as preparation for the creative process.

II.  Discuss this quarter’s work as preparation for character study.

III.  Criticize constructively, in terms of stimulus-response the work of one person in U.T. (University Theatre) or W.T. (Workshop Theatre) productions.

NEXT QUARTER:

In preparation for the “vicarious” assignment, select a novel (or biography) which is of high order in portrayal and development of character.

EXAMPLES:  Doctor Zhivago, Madame Bovary, Grapes of Wrath, Brothers Karamozov, Anna Karenina, Of Human Bondage.

If possible, get it approved before the holidays and start reading it.

A B43-3 EXAM JUNE, 1960

I. Explain, discuss, illustrate this basic principle:

You must imagine some basis for the words given as a justification for saying them.  You must moreover make for yourself a clear picture of what your imagination suggests. . . You hae to invent a whole film of inner pictures, a running subtext consisting of settings and circumstances against which the words given you can be played out.   This is not done for the sake of realism per se, but because it is necessary for our own creative natures.  For them we must have truth, if only the truth of the imagination, in which they can believe.”  (Be sure you have dealt with every emphasized idea.)

II.  Explain and give a specific remedy for:

1.  Acting an emotion.

2.  Playing an attitude

III.  Explain and illustrate these principles.

1.  See to it that the object of your attention (the person addressed) not only hears and understands the meaning of your words, but that he also sees what you see in his mind’s eye while you are speaking to him. . . action -- real productive action -- is the result.

2.  The lines of a part soon wear out from repetition.  But the visual images on the contrary become stronger and more extensive the oftener they are repeated.  Imagination (creative, not dreaming) does not rest; it forever adds new touches to fill out and enliven this inner moving picture film.

3.  The establishment of this habit requires long and systematic work.