Circumstances -- Beats -- An Action -- Action II -- The Obstacle -- Action and Obstacle in Balance -- Tactics -- Working Backwards -- Subtext -- The Arc -- Transitions -- Theme Threads -- Backstory -- Mysteries -- Personalization -- Inner Monologue -- Technique -- Framing -- Neutral -- Doing It In One -- Taking Focus -- Ancillary Action -- New Energy -- Stakes -- The Pause -- Six Moments -- The Needs of Others -- I Know the Line-What's the Attitude? -- The Build -- Clean -- Loud Enough -- Focus -- The New Play -- Pace -- Buying the Pause -- Setting Up Drama -- Overlapping -- Posture -- The.
Visual Cue -- Pointing Your Feet -- Prop Acting -- Sitting -- Punctuation (Physical) -- Stillness -- The Long Surprising Pause -- Cuing -- Curtain Lines -- Acting While They're Talking -- Loud and Soft -- The Half-Hitch -- Faster or Slower -- Throwing the Line Away -- Dropping the End of the Line -- Listening -- Rhythm -- Dance and Musical Skills -- Torque -- Put the Scene Between You -- Keeping the Lid On -- Self-Reacting -- Drafting -- Setting and Freezing -- Agree/Not Agree/Neutral -- The Curtain Call -- Finding the Light -- Wearing Clothes -- Stone Hands -- Dirty It Up -- Repetition.
Making Faces -- Simplify -- Working Too Hard -- Scaring People -- Technique -- The Small Stage -- Space -- Sniffing -- Entering -- Exiting -- Physical Line -- The Mind/Body Connection -- Bringing Blocking -- Seeing the Part in the Body -- Break the Straight Line -- Metaphor -- Vacillation -- Six Things About Space -- Re-Reading the Script -- Punctuation (Text) -- Language -- The Cherries and the Bowl -- Key Words -- Searching for the Word -- The Memory Speech -- Quick and Light -- Small Talk -- Shattering the Speech -- Breath Score -- Nailing the Plot Point -- The Dictionary -- Word Trails.
Rhythm, Tempo, Tone and Meaning -- Going Verbal -- Repeated Words -- Setting Names -- Common Sense -- The Toothpick -- Write the Blocking -- Function-The Secondary Character -- The Vocal Top of the Scene -- Taking Notes/Giving Notes -- Learning the Lines -- The Bit Part -- Quitting and Being Fired -- Bad Reviews -- Shtick -- Doing It Twice -- Danger -- Rehearsal Clothes -- Kissing -- Nudity -- Killing Laughs -- Setup/Joke/Reaction -- Holding for the Laugh -- The Comic Adjustment -- Physical Comedy -- Comic Timing -- Angry Too Long -- Judging the Character -- Scene Stealing -- Bad.
Mouthing -- Rehearsal Manners -- The Dressing Room -- Conducting the Speech -- Self-Pity -- Wasting the First Hour -- In-Balance/Off Balance -- Tattletale-ing -- Melodrama -- Tone -- Oversteering -- The Actor's Generosity -- Consulting the Other Actors -- Asking the Director -- What's a Dramaturg? -- Six Ways to Talk to Your Director -- Rehearsal Stuff -- Six Ways to Talk to a Fight Choreographer -- How to Handle an Interview -- Disputes With Other Actors -- Eating and Smoking -- Dealing with a Diva -- Go out/Go in -- Touching/Not Touching -- Opposites -- Sense of Humor -- Character -- What She Doesn't.
Do -- Losing the Argument -- The God of Variety -- Class and Culture -- Agreement -- Attacking and Defending -- Staying Onstage -- The Absurd -- Fear -- Metaphor-The Game -- One Time Only -- Social Rituals -- Folding the Play In -- Long-Term Relationships -- The Dramatic Choice -- Time: How Long Has It Been? -- Do Something Else -- The Positive Outcome -- The Nightmare Result -- Image -- Making Hedda Exist -- The Current -- The Five Senses -- The Taxi's Waiting -- Status -- Counterpoint -- Bill Patterson -- Wiliam McNulty -- Adale O'Brien -- Ken Jenkins -- Ray Fry -- Fred Major -- Lynn Cohen.
Energy -- 10 Rules of Concentration -- Impulse -- Playing With -- Emotions -- Fighting Spirit -- Opening Night -- Table Work -- Run-Throughs -- The First Reading -- The Muddled Middle -- Maintaining the Performance -- Acknowledgement -- Potential -- Theme.
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