Three-Day Weekend Intensive at State Theatre School
for Actors, Directors, Teachers, Writers, Seekers & Others
Using wildly creative yet reliable classic acting techniques, within the specific disciplines of relaxation, character study and text breakdown, learn to stay spontaneous, true and unpredictable from cold reading to call-back to final performance in a safe and positive professional environment. Embrace mistakes, plan accidents, surprise yourself, fellow actors and your audience. Workshops are often a mix of highly trained professional actors and teachers with beginners. This is a healthy mix from which everyone benefits
Work is based on individual needs with one-on-one attention in the following:
* Relaxation: releases tension and behavior controls, heightens awareness
* Character Study through Improvisation: sensory / body work
* Character Study through Text: given circumstances, active objectives
* Personalizations through Theatre Games
* Staying in the Here and Now & Listening
* Full Use of the Self: tantrums, telling jokes, sensory work, back-story, etc.
* Working through Activities with Props and Food
* Using Surprises and Planned Accidents
* Breaking the “4th Wall”: a sense of place and play
* Eccentric Choices: Taking Chances, Embracing Mistakes
* Cold Reading & Audition Skills: First Reading to Final Callback
* Optional: monologs: 2 1/2 minutes max, scenes: 5 minutes max (with a partner)
Please dress in comfortable rehearsal clothes [no shorts] in which you can move freely.
Schedule for Three-Day Intensive Workshop
6:30 P.M. – 10 P.M. Thursday, March 27
10 A.M.- 6 P.M. Saturday, March 28
10 A.M.- 6 P.M. Sunday, March 29
fee: $185. (pay to State Theatre School of Acting.)
Call to register at 512-692-0517
Limited to 10 students.
REMINDER: The ongoing drop-in Monday class is in session. See News on Paula’s website or call her at 360-317-6363 for details and directions.
The weekend is a great way to start the work and then continue when you are available in the Monday drop-in to prep for interviews of any kind, hone auditions, performance or speaking engagement, practice commercial reading and monologues, and work out to keep that instrument tuned!
