- Zoom Call
- 4 sessions.
Job of an actor:
- Articulation/be heard
- Remain in character
- Remember lines
- Remember que’s
- Knowing what and when to say
- Being heard
- how much energy you should bring to the stage
- Must bring freshness when repeating the scene
- Keep your breath
- Reality and truth of humanity
- How do you use your props as if you use them every day (e.g.: smoking, using your whole body)
- can use rosemary Tabasco instead of actually smoking
- How do you use your props as if you use them every day (e.g.: smoking, using your whole body)
- Must have self care
- Must find own way to get into scene (e.g.: playing a drunk when you’ve never been drunk)
- Have to do all of this and make it look effort less
Given Circumstances:
- who
- What
- When
- Where
- why
The actor as detective
- Must read the text to get the given circumstances
- Must understand what is happening in the scene and why they said what they said
- At teh given time
- Don’t think of it as a speech, but as a series of thought
- The character doesn’t have speech planed out,
Objective:
- I want
- I need
- I must have
Choose the strongest
Raise the stakes
How do I get it? – action
- As long as you can physically do it, that’s what gives it the “action”
- What’s in the way of achieving your objective? – gives you drama.
- Don’t want perfection/polished actor when auditioning
- Looking for actor who they can work with (actor will bring something the producers like)
- want to see your version of the character
- What motivates your character – what makes them human?
- Take them off the classical/heightened language pedestal and make them human
- there’s sometimes a tendency to put on an actor voice – don’t
- Want to hear your voice
- Want clarity of utterance (speak clearly)
- Pace
- Ease
- All things that are far easier said than done
- Take them off the classical/heightened language pedestal and make them human
Homework: Study play:
Questions:
- Who are you? – Juliet
- Age? – 13
- Gender? – Female
- Race? – Italian
- Professions?
- Social status?
- Family? – daughter of the patriarch of the House of Capulet
- Relationships? – Romeo – love interest
- Education?
- Wealth? – wealthy family
For your speech specifically:
- Where are you? – Capulet’s Orchard
- geographical – Verona, Italy
- Environmental – garden
- Time of day
- Season
- Where have been
- Where are you coming from
- Where are you going
- What do you want? – to meet with Romeo
- What is fact
- What can you speculate/assume