September 29th - October 3rd
Weekly Schedule
for
Beginning Acting

Monday, September 29th:

Warm-ups:

Tongue Twisters

Greeting by Numbers

Coloring Your Words

Coloring Your Nursery Rhymes

Fiinish the individual pantomimes.



Tuesday, September 30th:

Roshashana! No school today!


Wednesday, October 1st:

Select someone whom you see on a fairly regular basis and “become that person” for about one minute. You should do an action that you see this character typically performing, and yes, you may speak. The imitated person can be anybody but should not be in this class, nor should you reveal the identity of this person to others in the class, and of course, the imitation should never be mean spirited. This is to be nonjudgmental and objective study of a human being. We will begin the “Person Study” on Friday.

One Word Situational Scenes:

A group of three or four performers choose a word or a phrase (for example, "sorry", or "thank you") and develop and perform three or four short scenes based on the word. Each scene should depict a different situation using the word in a different context; in each scene an actor says the word or phrase in a different way. The word or phrase is spoken at a high point in the scene, not thrown away in the first few lines.

Example: Given the word “welcome” three actors portray the following three scenes: saying welcome to a long awaited good friend; saying welcome to relatives they dislike and whom they only greet at their parents’ insistence, and saying welcome to visiting diplomats.

Suggested Word Phrases:

well so guess don’t
welcome good thank you sorry
never why oh, no really

Thursday, October 2nd:

Warm-ups: vocal and physical

Begin presenting the One Word-Three Situations Scenes.


Friday, October 3rd:

Finish up the One Word-Three Situations Scenes.

Begin presenting the “person study”.