* archive page * THR 121 [3 Credits] Fundamentals of Acting (h) Basic stage acting techniques for persons with little or no prior acting experience. Emphasis on physical, emotional and imaginative awareness. Monologues, auditions and scene work fundamentals introduced. (3+0) Offered Fall, Spring. see 2002 I'll be using this page for 2003-2004 classes! Next update: get on my mailing list! NEW: Subdirectories: 1-2-3-4-5 Notes The same textbook will be used for THR221 Intermediate Acting 2005 updates: Small Chekhov Fall * "Four Farces & One Funeral" -- Chekhov.05 Chekhov's one-acts are updated -- The Bear, The Proposal (1st act -- Oh, Love), Wedding, Tobacco (Act II -- Ah, Marriage!), but I'm still working on the "funeral" (Last Day of Anton Chekhov). mini-chekhov I am teaching DramLit -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dramlit (subscribe) and see THR215 for subjects, topics, titles. Spring 2006 -- Waiting for Godot, Beckett -- new pages ( see shows ) Your feedback as always welcome! Method: Yoga & Freud 2005: Total Acting & Total Directing * Michael Chekhov * Michail Chekhov, master-teacher in Acting I? Method Acting * Stanislavsky on Stanislavsky Terminology *

2003-2004

You see their faces (Meyerhold and Stanislavsky, right table) in both directories (StageMatrix and Method for Directors) and those are the next zones to go after you are done with the subjects of the Acting One. I have to change the textbook again (Actor @ Work, Benedetti), because "Five Approaches to Acting" seems too advanced for Acting One (I still recommend it, but you will have it in THR221 Intermediate and THR321 Advanced Acting classes).

The Beneditti's book has 24 chapters and we have to cover a new chapter before each class.

Part I. Preparing Yourself [read in advance, we do some improv in class, but the reading you do at home].

Part II. Action *

Part III. Characterization *

Part IV. Thw Working Process

[ * Acting and Characterization are the most important in Fundamentals of Acting ]

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intermediate acting :

Five Approaches to Acting, David Kaplan (textbook)

Part I. Getting to the Task

[ 5 subdirectories are pointed at Part I. Text, II. Role, III. Actor, IV. Showscases (scenes), V. Write Your Monologue pages, not yet detailed, according to the textbook. Each subdirectory will have "lessons" pages -- Lesson 1, 2 and etc. ]

.... In short, how to deal with the text, next -- "Actor's Text" (performance), III -- how to deal with yourself (Creator + Medium), IV -- scenes study, and the last -- writing and performing.

Part II (textbook). Playing Episodes (Brecht and Meyerhold)

.... Basic Biomechanics (physical acting)

Role

Your "text" -- performance!

Part III. Building Images

Chapter 7. Masks

Actor

Actor = Creator + Medium (Meyerhold)

Creator (Method) and Medium (Biomechanics) = BioMethod

How to develop both, Actor1 and Actor2 -- how to work on YOURSELF.

Scene Study (SS)

Your second partner (first is always your audience).

For Final exam. [ I do not lknow, if can finish the whole book in Fundamentals, I plan to use this textbook for THR221 Intermediate Acting, Biomechanics ]

Lesson Plan(s) (general; also, see "left table"):

1. Review (Textbook Reading) -- tests after each part (Method, Episodic and so on.)

2. Monologues, Scenes (homework) -- Acter's Texts are collected after presentation in class (grades), and the journals.

3. New material -- mini-lectures with the new theory terms (lists)

4. Shows, Presentations: discussion -- feedback (must learn how to evaluate the performance by piers).

Preview the terms for homestudy -- next session reviews (quizes?)

[ to be updated in 2004 : summer online mini-course HS Students * ] see students pages in acting directories!

Indicate where it's 221 BM (Meyerhold) and 321 Method (Stanislavsky' picture), Intermediate Acting.
THR121 Fundamentals of Acting (who?)

The subdirectories 1-5 were developed by the end of 2002.

Next : THR221

9:45-11:15am 215 Drama Literature, Antohin

11:30am-1:00pm 121 Fund Acting, Antohin

Spring 2005:

2:15-3:45pm 221 Int. Acting, Antohin

4:10 - 5:40pm 331 Fund. Directing, Antohin

theatre w/anatoly pages :

Summary

Questions

Thanks,
Anatoly