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Conservatory Year 2 Age 12-adult Week 5 Homework

Hi Students!

PREPARE AND BRING TO WEEK 6 CLASS

Your homework is to practice the Tadashi Suzuki positions you learned for your warm up. Please get familiar with the Practical Aesthetics glossary and expand your Responsibility and Control lists. This list is for you and will help you keep clear and confident while developing your skills as an actor.

Please watch the following film for next class: CITY LIGHTS – Charlie Chaplin.

It can be found here: .orIf the link is broken, Google City Lights Charlie Chaplin and you should be able to find it on HULU, amazon prime, you tube, and a variety of other places. We have already googled it and know it’s out there! .

Focus on how action allows the actor to honestly react and work towards their goal in the scene.

Come to class with three scenes that jumped out at you because of an actors’ use of action.

Please print the Action Musts handout, found below, and bring to class next week.

Also, print all scenes below. No need to memorize, you will be assigned a scene and character next week in class.

Make sure you are printing all handouts and scenes and putting them in your actor’s notebook and bringing them to class each week. We use them often and it’s your responsibility to bring them. The front desk will not print out copies for you.

SCENES AND HANDOUTS BELOW

ACTION MUSTS

Actions MUST:

1. Be physically capable of being done.

2. Be interesting / fun to do.

3. Be specific.

4. Have its test in the other person.

5. Not be an errand.

6. Not presuppose any physical or emotional state.

7. Not be manipulative.

8. Have a “cap”.

9. Be in line with the intentions of the script.

ADULT SCENE A

Paul

Holly, I'm in love with you.

Holly

So what?

Paul

So what? So plenty! I love you. You belong to me.

Holly

No. People don't belong to people.

Paul

Of course they do.

Holly

I'm not going to let anyone put me in a cage.

Paul

I don't want to put you in a cage. I want to love you.

Holly

It's the same thing.

Paul

No it's not. Holly...

ADULT / TEEN SCENE B

Chris Munn:

What are you doin'?

Tim Munn:

Organizing my books by the way they smell.

Chris Munn:

Hey Tim.

Tim Munn:

Yeah?

Chris Munn:

Guess what.

Tim Munn:

What?

Chris Munn:

There's a cow.

Tim Munn:

I know.

Chris Munn:

I think I wanna milk it

Tim Munn:

Knock-knock.

Chris Munn:

Who's there?

Tim Munn:

Interrupting Cow.

Chris Munn:

Interrup -...

Tim Munn:

Mooooo!

(They Laugh)

You know you got a hole in your foot?

Chris Munn:

I know. It smells.

Tim Munn:

Can I stick my finger in it? In the hole?

Chris Munn:

No.

ADULT/ TEEN SCENE C

Flynn:

Have you been to the factory?

Pat:

Sure. Joined the crowd once. Didn't jump of course.

Flynn:

Yeah, I'm definitely not big on jumping. And I don't like that dust.

Pat:

Can't blame you.

Flynn:

Falling all that way? How do you know if you're ready?

Pat:

I'm certainly no expert. I suppose it's different for everyone. Some folks probably dawdle around here a while trying to figure that out.

Flynn:

I don't mind dawdling if it means not having to jump. Hitting that floor looked painful.

Pat:

Oh, you're afraid of a little pain?

Flynn:

So what's it like? You know, dying?

Pat:

I don't know.

Flynn:

Well, it's gotta hurt.

Pat:

Hurt? Life hurts.

ADULT SCENE D

A:

Are all these records?

B:

I've tried to pare down my collection to just the essentials.

A:

] Look at this room. This is like my dream room! Look at all this stuff... You are, like, the luckiest guy in the world. I would kill to have stuff like this.

B:

Please, go ahead and kill me.

A:

Oh, come on, what are you talking about?

B:

Well, you think it's healthy to obsessively collect things? You can't connect with other people, so you fill your life with stuff. I'm just like all the rest of these pathetic collector losers.

A:

No, you're not, you're cool!

B:

If I'm so cool how come I haven't had a relationship in like four years? I can't even remember the last time someone talked to me.

A:

You know, I bet there are tons of people who’d go out with you in a minute. I know I could get you a date in, like, two seconds.

B:

Good luck.

A:

I mean it. You leave everything to me. I'm gonna be your own personal dating service.

B:

Yeah, well, we should get back.

TEEN SCEENE A

Mitch:

You know, um, something strange happened to me this morning...

Chris

Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of on a pyramid with a thousand people screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

Mitch:

No...

Chris:

Why am I the only one who has that dream?

Mitch:

Did you know there's a guy living in our closet?

Chris:

You've seen him too?

Mitch:

Who is he?

Chris:

Hollyfeld.

Mitch:

Why does he keep going into our closet?

Chris:

Why do you keep going into our closet?

Mitch:

To get my clothes - but that's not why he goes in there.

Chris:

Of course not, he's twice your size - your clothes would never fit him.

Mitch:

Yeah...

Chris:

Think before you ask these questions. Your IQ is twenty points higher than me? Sheesh! You think a big guy like that can wear your clothes?

TEEN SCENE B

Gordie:

Maybe you could come into the college courses with me.

Chris:

Yeah right, that'll be the day.

Gordie:

Why not? You're smart enough.

Chris:

They won't let me.

Gordie:

What do you mean?

Chris:

It's what everyone thinks of my family in this town. It's what they think of me.

Gordie:

That's not true.

Chris:

No one even asked me if I took the milk money that time.

Gordie:

Did you take it?

Chris:

Yeah, I took it! I mean, you knew I took it. Everyone knew I took it. But maybe I was sorry and I tried to give it back.

Gordie:

You tried to give it back?

Chris:

Maybe. Just maybe. And maybe I took it to Old Lady Simmons and told her but I still got suspended because it never showed up.

Gordie:

No Way! Why didn’t you tell someone?

Chris:

Just say that I told this story. Do you think that anyone would've believed it?

Gordie:

No. Do you think she would have tried something like that if it had been one of those rich kids up on the view?

Chris:

No! But with me?... Anyway, she saw her chance, and she took it. I was stupid for even trying to give it back.

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