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Master Class with playwright Eugenie Chan - March 17 & 18. Times TBA (generally during regular rehearsal time on Saturday and Sunday afternoon). All cast members are expected to attend.
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Actors: HOW TO PREPARE FOR REHEARSAL
Please work on each scheduled scene and song BEFORE you come to rehearsal that day. (Please note: treat all songs as scenes!) This does NOT necessarily mean memorizing it right away. It does mean:
1. Choose an OBJECTIVE: What do I want from the other person/s in this scene?
2. Decide on your OBSTACLE: Why will I have trouble getting what I want?
3. Pick several ACTIONS to play: what will I actively, physically do during the scene in order to get what I want from you? Plead, threaten, entice, embrace, push away, ask, confuse, etc.
4. Define who I am. What in my life is affecting me in this scene: age, physical condition, attitude, emotional state, time of day, where I am, etc.
5. Figure out what RELATIONSHIPS I am having with the other people in the scene and how those relationships change during the scene. (parent/child? then best friends? then teacher/student? then sworn enemies? then business partners? etc.)
6. Know what happened immediately BEFORE I walked into the scene: where was I and why? Why did I come here? What did I anticipate would happen once I got here?
7. Take time to ABSORB all these ideas: IMAGINE them and FEEL them. Think about similar things and people in your life. Imagine yourself in all these different circumstances. Make an imaginary video of all these things in your mind and keep watching it to get more ideas and feelings. Keep asking questions about yourself, what you're doing and why!
Then come into rehearsal prepared to really LISTEN to the other actors and let yourself RESPOND freely and spontaneously to what you hear and feel in the scene as if it's the first time you've heard it. And Remember: everyone else on stage is also fighting to get something from you!.
Do this work in as much DETAIL as you can handle. The more detail, the better you will be, the more exciting the work will be to do on stage and the clearer the story will be for our audiences.
Be SPECIFIC, then LISTEN and BREATHE.
See you at rehearsal!
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1. Choose an OBJECTIVE: What do I want from the other person/s in this scene?
2. Decide on your OBSTACLE: Why will I have trouble getting what I want?
3. Pick several ACTIONS to play: what will I actively, physically do during the scene in order to get what I want from you? Plead, threaten, entice, embrace, push away, ask, confuse, etc.
4. Define who I am. What in my life is affecting me in this scene: age, physical condition, attitude, emotional state, time of day, where I am, etc.
5. Figure out what RELATIONSHIPS I am having with the other people in the scene and how those relationships change during the scene. (parent/child? then best friends? then teacher/student? then sworn enemies? then business partners? etc.)
6. Know what happened immediately BEFORE I walked into the scene: where was I and why? Why did I come here? What did I anticipate would happen once I got here?
7. Take time to ABSORB all these ideas: IMAGINE them and FEEL them. Think about similar things and people in your life. Imagine yourself in all these different circumstances. Make an imaginary video of all these things in your mind and keep watching it to get more ideas and feelings. Keep asking questions about yourself, what you're doing and why!
Then come into rehearsal prepared to really LISTEN to the other actors and let yourself RESPOND freely and spontaneously to what you hear and feel in the scene as if it's the first time you've heard it. And Remember: everyone else on stage is also fighting to get something from you!.
Do this work in as much DETAIL as you can handle. The more detail, the better you will be, the more exciting the work will be to do on stage and the clearer the story will be for our audiences.
Be SPECIFIC, then LISTEN and BREATHE.
See you at rehearsal!