Acting Exercises

ACTING CLASS SCHEDULE:

1. Warm-ups: 10 minutes

2. Create:

• • • Unit 1 Acting Technique: Present technique lesson (15 minutes) + Rehearse technique for improvised scene (10 minutes)

    • Units 2 & 3 Performance: Rehearse performance & scripted scenes (30 - 45 minutes)

3. Performances (Formative Assessments):

• • • Unit 1 Acting Technique - 45 minutes (Perform a 1 minute loosely improvised scene of technique presented that day, on the stage for the entire class.)

    • Units 2 & 3 Performance Switch - 20 minutes (Each cast partners with another cast(s) in a spot in the room, to perform for one another and offer positive feedback.)

4. Respond & Connect discussion: 5 minutes (With another partner, Get To Know You Games, Word of the class? How did you grow today? What did you do well today? What can you work on?)

ACTING EXERCISES:

• Warm Ups (Risk Taking Exercises)

• Get To Know You Games / Reflection Questions

• Pre-Performance Warm Up Routine

• Improvisation Exercises

• Physicalize Tactics Through Psychological Gesture / Rehearsing a Monologue With Tactics

• Scream and Die

• Scream, Laugh, and Start to Cry (Emotional Threshold)

• Animal Character

• Emotional Memory Exercise

• Communication

• Voice Projection

• Voice Articulation

• Voice: Project, Articulate, Pitch, Tempo, Tone

• Fourth Wall

  • Judges / Overcoming Fears

  • Learning to Story Tell and Stay In Character

• Endowment

• Body Movement Charades Pantomime

• Blocking Neutral Mask Body Movement Pantomime

• Body Movement: Gibberish / Deaf Replay

• Stage Pictures

• Text Analysis Exercises for the First Rehearsal

• Objective

• Stage Directions

• Stage Directions and Body Positions

• Relationship

• Entrance / Exit: The Moment Before

• Obstacle

• Actively Listening / Communication

• Active Listening and Accept The Offer

  • Fact & Inference: 1. Where's Super Lou / 2. Here Come's Charly

• Directing and Collaboration

• How To Direct

• Fighting for your Objective

  • Objective & Tactics: The Funeral Scene

  • Objective: Get The Candy / Winning Hands

• Mystery and Secret

• Staying in Character