TH 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: American Laboratory Theatre, An Actor Prepares, Elia Kazan
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Acting is living truthfully under imaginary circumstances. Actors can create performances externally or internally: external study, internal feel. Stanislavsky actors live the lives of their characters onstage (the method) The character"s task is different from the actor"s task. Emotion memory remembering one"s own situations and using those. Stanislavsky prized true emotion, but realized the importance of technique. Great acting requires a convincing inner life and virtuoso skills. The actor creates the performance through the task then identifying the tactics needed then trying that all into the style and feel of the play. The actor"s instrument is their self: voice and speech, movement, imagination, discipline. The actor"s routine: audition, rehearsal, performance. Acting is an art and a disease. All actors have a sense of play. 7 figure actor"s union has the lowest negotiated wages in america. Accents and dialects: musicals, shakespeare, verse plays, viewpoints, european. Representational inside: feels step inside, the method, american, tv and film, 4th wall, become .
