December 31, 1999

Working Out Your Acting Muscles

Memory
Our memories are a store house of acting information. So developing our memory capacities and capabilities are of utmost importance.

  1. 24 hours: This is your life - Call out the hours in a day and starting from 6am by the hour and as the hour is called students will enact a typical activity or action found in a-day in their lives.
  2. Emotional Entry - Participants stand outside the door and enter displaying the emotions given by Teacher. The rest try and guess.
  3. Group Touch 2 Teams - Select familiar object or substance. Once team agrees they go onstage and play simultaneously in the space. Focusing energy on the object or substance.
    FEEL TEXTURE
    FEEL TEMPERATURE
    FEEL WEIGHT
    FEEL SHAPE
  4. TASTE AND SMELL - sensory
    2 Teams- Select and agree on something simple to eat. One groups at a time go on stage to taste, smell and eat the food selected.
    CHEW THE FOOD
    FEEL IT TEXTURE IN YOUR MOUTH
    TASTE THE FOOD
    LET IT GO DOWN YOUR THROAT
    EVALUATION: Audience what are they eating? Players is that right?

Got any other exercises to build this muscle? Post it in the comments!

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