I Don't Need an Acting Class
Milton Justice
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The Partner and their Behavior
We're combining two exercises in this class. (1) Seeing someone 'on the street' and being able to make decisions about who they are, based on their behavio and (2) building an attitude towards them.
Making Active Choices
Making choices that really bring you to life seems to be a constant struggle. Maybe it's because we're relieved that we can come up with any choice, but the choices must be worth it. They can't be…
Living Off Your Partner
Actively building an attitude to your partner can open you up to the action of the scene.
Empathy and Sympathy
We need to really be careful about the vocabulary of acting. There are concepts that keep working their way and it can dangerously lead actors to a kind of passivity that lessens the power of…
Believe Your Choices
After I vent about the Broadway production of Death of a Salesman, where they yelled at the audience for three hours, we look at the necessity of not just making great choices, but believing them.…
Character Traits and Actions
Directors give performance or effect directions. It forces actors to play cliches. Figuring out the nature of a character trait or spine or personality frees an actor to play an action ... or an…
Actors Talk Acting
Last week I gave classes in Poland and it was extremely useful to have a fresh perspective on students who were slightly new to this way of working – and also affording an opportunity for actors to…
Working On A Monologue
My student, JP, has been working on the Biff and Happy scene from Death of a Salesman. In this episode we work through a place where he was stuck with that feeling of "now I'm performing a monologue."
The Actor's Personal Connection
In coaching an actor this week, I was struck again by what feels obvious—and yet is so often missed: the actor must find a personal connection to the circumstances, or the character’s conflict never…
Talking Out
Revisiting the concept of talking out as a way to help actors own everything they think about a character and a play.
Living off your Partner
Building the character's attitude towards their partner is not only essential in playing a scene, it saves you. There's a danger, however, in building the attitude all on one level.
What to work on
Sometimes I think we've just had too many classes - and too many teachers telling you what you have to do in order to play a part. An actor needs to develop the ability to figure out what is…
Seeing What's Not There
The ability to visualize and live off images that are in the actor's imagination is a great skill to develop. It keeps you from acting in a vacuum,– to say nothing of solving the problem of a bad…
Talking Out Revisited
Actor work is not an intellectual exercise. And it’s not about “good writing.”It’s about experiencing.The audience doesn’t come to the theater for the words on the page. They come for the experience…
The Technique Works!
Actors have a tendency to abandon their technique as soon as they get an audition – and leap to a performance. Just taking a little time to really think about the text makes an enormous difference.
Building a Character
There are many roads in to building a character and, unfortunately, there is no paint-by-number approach. It's great as an actor to play with several different techniques.
Connecting Through Specifics
When an actor does not connect, you catch them "acting". It doesn't matter if it's a television series or a play. Specificity helps us connect.
Fighting Clichés through Specificity and Events
We have a tendency to leap to clichés because the dialogue seems to lead us there. There's a way to fight this.
An Encyclopedic Possibility of Choices
It's very difficult to believe that there is not just one correct choice. As long as an actor is clear what the text is about, there are countless roads in to the experience of the world of the play.
Your choices must feed the text
"Everything is something." It seems simple, but as actors we often skip over something that can give us the key we're looking for.
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