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 1 Curriculum