I continue to take acting classes because I never want to disconnect from the experience of memorizing lines, setting blocking, learning who I am as a character, and synthesizing all of it for performance.
This week in class, I met my classmates and scene partners. I did a mechanical read of the text (completely flat and robotic--almost intoned reading) with my scene partners and we discussed some of the personalization methods for a scene as well as guidelines from the class.
These are some of the take-away comments from my week 1:
This week in class, I met my classmates and scene partners. I did a mechanical read of the text (completely flat and robotic--almost intoned reading) with my scene partners and we discussed some of the personalization methods for a scene as well as guidelines from the class.
These are some of the take-away comments from my week 1:
- Do not hurt your scene partners (or anyone involved in the play) physically or emotionally. The reactions on stage can be real pain, but offstage it is important to keep an environment of support and respect.
- Most characters are in a lot of pain because their emotional spines are out of whack. Plays rarely show healthy/painless characters.
- Specificity is a gateway to acting. If you remember nothing else, remember that acting is knowing what you are talking about and speaking from a place of truly knowing. (Doing this is personalizing the text.)
key_phrases_and_facts.pdf |
spine_phrase.pdf |
units_and_objectives.pdf |
the_unbroken_line.pdf |