OLATHE SOUTH THEATRE
  • TIME TO "PLAY"
    • Return to Schools - OPS
  • Education
  • PERFORMANCES
    • Play Readings
    • Les Miserables
      • Rehearsal Calendar - Spring Semester 2020
      • OPS Covid policy (12/8/20)
    • Ghostlight Program
  • THESPIANS
  • SUPPORT OS THEATRE
  • TIME TO "PLAY"
    • Return to Schools - OPS
  • Education
  • PERFORMANCES
    • Play Readings
    • Les Miserables
      • Rehearsal Calendar - Spring Semester 2020
      • OPS Covid policy (12/8/20)
    • Ghostlight Program
  • THESPIANS
  • SUPPORT OS THEATRE
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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
      • ​The Second City YouTube Channel
  • Stanislavski
    • Intro to Stanislavski
      • ​Stanislavski for Beginners
    • ​Show and Tell
      • Confidence
      • Knowing Yourself
        • ​Are You a Self Aware Actor?
      • Emotional Recall
      • Performances
      • Reflection
    • ​Picture It!
      • ​Stage Picture
      • Given Circumstances
        • EMOOTE - worksheet
      • Characterization
        • ​Characterization worksheet
      • Moment Before
        • EMOOTE - worksheet
      • "Magic If" Exercises
      • Group Example
        • Homecoming
      • Picture Selection
      • Rehearsal
      • Performances
      • Reflection
  • Hagan
    • 9 Questions
      • 9 Questions Worksheet
    • The Six Steps
    • Terms from Respect For Acting
  • 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​
  • Adler
    • ​Why is Adler a Big Deal?
    • ​Introduction to Acting Technique
      • ​​Exercises
    • ​​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
INTERMEDIATE ACTING​
  • ​Dedication Monologues
  • Pantomime
    • ​Ideas for a Pantomime (Solo, Duet, Group)
    • Bill Irwin - Largely New York at the 1989 Tony Awards​
  • Voice
    • Working in Theatre / American Theatre Wing - Voice 
    • How Voice Works
    • Using Your Voice
    • Vocal Health
    • Paul Meier podcast with Kristen Linklater
    • Rehearsal
    • Performances
    • Reflection
  • Shakespeare
    • Intro to Shakespeare
      • ​Shakespeare's Life and Times
    • Iambic Pentameter
    • Shakespearean Insults
      • Shakespearean Insult Generator
    • Select Monologues
    • Rehearsal
    • Performances
    • Reflection
  • Musical Theatre
    • ​Sing the Story, not the Song – 2 weeks
      • ​​Auditioning for Musical Theatre
    • Dividing into Complete Thoughts
    • Group Example
      • Lost in the Wilderness
    • Structure of a Song
      • Beats, Measures, Phrases
      • Verse, Chorus, Bridge
    • Select Songs
    • Rehearsal
    • Reflection
THEATRE HISTORY
  • End of Roman Era through the Renaissance
    • Commedia del Arte​
      • British Pantomime
      • What is a British Pantomime and Why Should you See One?
    • Elizabethean Theatre
  • Broadway
    • Broadway: The American Musical - Episode Three: I Got Plenty of Nothing
    • Broadway Musical Songs (one a day)
  • Current Events​​
    • The New York Times​
  • ​VOCABULARY
    • 60 Words
Acting I Vocabulary
Acting 1 Curriculum
Olathe South High School - 1640 E. 151st Street - Olathe, KS 66062 - 913.780.7160
​Olathe Public Schools
  • TIME TO "PLAY"
    • Return to Schools - OPS
  • Education
  • PERFORMANCES
    • Play Readings
    • Les Miserables
      • Rehearsal Calendar - Spring Semester 2020
      • OPS Covid policy (12/8/20)
    • Ghostlight Program
  • THESPIANS
  • SUPPORT OS THEATRE