Monday, May 29, 2006

ACTING CLASS
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
FOR MAY 29TH

Tuesday, May 30th:

Continue working on “Person, Place and Thing” and “Objectives.”

“Person, Place and Thing” and “Objectives” will be due when you present your scenes.

Work with A PIECE OF MY HEART, and with SUBURBAN MOTEL.


Wednesday, May 31st:

Continue with “Person, Place and Thing” and “Objectives”.

Work with ANGELS IN AMERICA and with WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?


Thursday, June 1st:

Write about a typical day in the life of your character:

1. Describe the house your character lives in.

2. When do you get up in the morning?

3. What are your morning rituals?

4. Describe your job. Where do you work? What is your profession? What are the people like with/for whom you work?

5. What form of transportation do you use to go to work or go home?

6. Describe your family. Are you married? Do you have children? Who are your
friends?

7. What do you do in the evenings after work?

8. What do you do on the weekends? How do you socialize?


Continue working with DEATH AND THE MAIDEN.


Friday, June 2nd:

Work with the scenes that need the most work.

Please bear in mind that if a particular scene or scenes are not available to work, then I will work with which ever scene is available.

Monday, May 22, 2006

May 22, 2006
Weekly Agenda
for
Advanced Acting

Monday, May 22nd:

Warm-ups, vocal exercises!
Relaxation exercises
360 Sensaround

A little improv mixed with the entrance game

Work with Waiting for Godot


Tuesday, May 23rd:

Warm-ups, vocal exercises!
Relaxation exercises

For tonight’s homework: LEARN YOUR LINES!

Work with Laundry and Bourbon

Wednesday, May 24th:

Warm-up. vocal exercises!
Theatre Games

Work with A Piece of My Heart


For tonight’s homework: CONTINUE LEARNING YOUR LINES!


Thursday, May 25th:

Work on “People, Place and Things” and work on objectives.

Objectives: Go through script and play with your objectives for each line. Have a super objective (your ultimate objective), your objective for this scene, and a
play-by-play objective you have for each line or beat in the scene.

Work with Death and the Maiden

Friday, May 26th:

You need to have the scene(s) blocked and your lines memorized. You also need to show me your prop list and your costume list for your scenes. Mind you I am not going to get you the props or the costumes but I want to know that you know you need to get these things.
I will work with Dasha on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Monday, May 15, 2006

May 15, 2006
Weekly Schedule
for
Advanced Acting

Monday, May 15, 2006:

Warm-ups; Vocal warm-ups.

The Entrance Game with Leah and Anna.

Work with Suburban Motel.


Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Warm-ups; Vocal warm-ups.

The Entrance Game with Zack and Leah.

Continue working with Suburban Motel.


Wednesday, May 17, 2006

No 5th Period today!


Thursday, May 18, 2006

No 5th Period today!


Friday, May 19, 2006

“Person, Place and Things”; Vocal warm-ups.

Work with Angels in America

YOUR SCENES NEED TO CUT AND BLOCKED BY FRIDAY, MAY 19TH.

YOU NEED TO BE OFF BOOK BY FRIDAY, MAY 26TH.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

WEEKLY SCHEDULE
FOR
MAY 8, 2006
ADVANCED ACTING

Monday, May 8th:

Vocal exercises, sense memory and emotion memory exercises.

Writing Assignment: “Person, Place and Thing”: The assignment is to go through the script and personalize every person, every place and every thing your character refers to. You are going to write down a description and some personal thing about the person, place or thing that your character refers to in the script. Personalize this so it will have meaning for you!

Today we will be “waiting for Godot.”


Tuesday, May 9th:

Vocal exercises, sense memory and emotion memory exercises.

“The Destination Game” will be introduced. I will explain how to do this fun assignment on Tuesday!

I will work with the lovely ladies of A Piece of My Heart.


Wednesday, May 10th:

Vocal, sense memory and emotion memory exercises.

We will do a few “destination games” today.

Today we will do Laundry and Bourbon - well, maybe laundry and coca-cola.


Thursday, May 11th:

Vocal, sense memory and emotion memory exercises.

A few more destination games today.

Today we will be Angels in America.

Friday, May 12th:

Today we will check into Suburban Motel.

And then we will have some fun theatre games!

Next week I promise I will work on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?