Guidelines for Actors Preparing Scenes

Guidelines for Actors Preparing Scenes

1. PRINCIPLESS

   • Identify with your character
   • Don´t be predictable
   • Don’t be smarter than your character.
   • Every character wants to be master of the circumstances they’re in.
   • Every scene is a ballgame
     • Keep the Ball in Play. .
     • Pick the Ball Up
     • Keep It Simple.
     • Be Alive
     • Never Give Up

2. PROCESS (The First Reharsal)

   • Responsabilities
   • Come to rehearsal with a list of what you think is essential to make the scene work
   • Read again.
   • Ask question
   • Read the scene
   • Break the scene into blocks
   • Read Block 1

3. THE OTHERS REHARSALS

   • The second reharsal
     • Start to listen
     • Chart your ins and outs
     • Chart your proxemics
     • Scene geography
     • Place and Status
     • Just Sit There.
     • Begin to Speak.
   • The Third Reharsal
     • Repeat steps
     • Physicalize
     • Physicalize Block 2.
     • Physicalize Blocks 1 & 2
   • Subsequent Rehearsals

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