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Course in Essentials
Students who have participated in two ten-week
cycles of the course are eligible to join the Advanced Workshop,
which is offered in addition to the Monday night class periodically according to demand.
In the future, students who have completed the Advanced class twice will be eligible (by invitation) to participate in 10-week cycles in which students work together with me on a single play. There will be an informal presentation at the end, with the possibility of presenting a full productions for particularly promising projects. All participants (including myself) will pay only for space rental-- there will be no tuition for participation in the Company. One can join a company cycle for 10 weeks at a time, with no further committment required. |
The technique
is presented through exercises, discussion, and scene work.
The exercises are carefully-crafted, purposeful, exciting explorations
that are designed to give you an experiential grasp of the
elements of the technique taught in the class. Discussions
elaborate on the principles presented in the exercises. Also, the technique portion of the class includes a weekly body work component, designed to help the actor build awareness of habitual physical tensions and the ability to let those tensions go.
You work on one scene for the duration
of the course. When you go up in class with your scene, I spend
an hour or more with you and your partner to help you identify
and fulfill the next aspect of the scene that confronts you.
You'll rehearse with your partner every week outside of class,
and each week you'll have provocative new tools that you encountered
in the last class to try out in your rehearsals. At the end of
ten weeks, you will have come a long way towards making a character
come alive and illuminating his or her experience. You will present
the scenes at Session 10, "Friends and Family Night",
an informal open house where a supportive group of well-wishers
gather to show an interest in the work you have been doing. You
will leave the course confident in the knowledge that you know
how to approach work on a role. The rest is up to you!
In the Advanced Workshop, first and foremost, we continue to develop our facility with the skills and principles presented in the Monday Night class. Students are admitted to the Advanced class not because they have necessarily reached a level of skill in their acting but because they have achieved some comprehension of the approach taught in the Monday Night class.
In addition to working to hone skills as described above, typically in scenes from Chekhov, in the Advanced class we look at the problem of verbally dense material and verse drama, and students work on Shakespeare monologues.