Acting 1
Activities
METHODS AND TECHNIQUES
- Spolin
- Spolin and Sills Laid Down the Rules
- Viola Spolin Biography
- Three Essentials of a Theatre Game
- Focus
- Sidecoaching
- Evaluation
- Approval/Disapproval
- Improvisation Games
- Building a Story
- Camera
- Dodge Ball
- Dubbing
- Follow the Follower
- Gibberish-English
- Gibberish Interpreter
- Gibberish: Selling
- Gibberish: Teaching
- Hold It!
- Mirror
- Play Ball
- Singing Dialogue
- Slow/Fast/Normal
- Slow Motion-Freeze Tag
- Stage Whisper
- Tag-Explosion Tag
- Three-way Conversation
- Tug of War
- What's Beyond: Activity
- Who Am I?
- Who Is the Mirror?
- Who Started the Motion?
- The Second City
- Stanislavski
- Intro to Stanislavski
- Stanislavski for Beginners
- Show and Tell
- Confidence
- Knowing Yourself
- Emotional Recall
- Performances
- Reflection
- Picture It!
- Stage Picture
- Given Circumstances
- Characterization
- Moment Before
- "Magic If" Exercises
- Group Example
- Homecoming
- Picture Selection
- Rehearsal
- Performances
- Reflection
- Intro to Stanislavski
- Hagan
- Meisner
- Reality of Doing
- Being in the Moment
- House of Cards
- Going to School
- Repetition
- Three Knocks
- Ambiguous Scenes
- Subtext
- Rehearsal
- Performances
- Reflection
- Pinch and the Ouch
- Living Truthfully under Imaginary Circumstances
- Rehearsal
- Performances
- Reflection
- Reality of Doing
- Adler
- Why is Adler a Big Deal?
- Introduction to Acting Technique
- The Stella Adler Studio of Acting
- Lee Strasberg
- Method Acting
- A chapter on the method by Strasberg in Producing the Play by John Gassner
- Strasberg at the Actor's Studio by Robert H. Hethmon
- A Dream of Passion by Lee Strasberg
- The Lee Strasberg Notes by Lola Cohen
- The Group Theatre
- The Actor's Studio
- Marilyn Monroe & Lee Strasberg interviews
- The Godfather Part II - Academy Award nomination as Hyman Roth
- The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute
- Exercises
- Relaxation
- Sense Memory
- Method Acting
INTERMEDIATE ACTING
- Dedication Monologues
- Pantomime
- Voice
- Shakespeare
- Musical Theatre
- Sing the Story, not the Song – 2 weeks
- Dividing into Complete Thoughts
- Group Example
- Lost in the Wilderness
- Structure of a Song
- Select Songs
- Rehearsal
- Reflection
THEATRE HISTORY
- End of Roman Era through the Renaissance
- Broadway
- Broadway: The American Musical - Episode Three: I Got Plenty of Nothing
- Broadway Musical Songs (one a day)
- Current Events
- VOCABULARY