Acting (Advanced)

Course Outline

• Warm-up 
• Stanislavski and the System 
• Action 
• If  
• Given Circumstances 
• Imagination 
• Concentration and attention 
• Bits and Tasks 
• Belief and the sense of truth 
• Emotion memory 
• Communication 
• An actor’s adaptations and other elements, qualities, aptitudes and gifts 
• Inner psychological drives. 
• Inner psychological drives in action.
• The actor’s inner creative state
• The Supertask. 
• Through action. 
• The subconscious and the actor’s creative state. 
• Physical characterization, 
• Scene work 
• Rehearsals 
• Performance

Mandatory reading: 

Konstantin Stanislavski, An Actor’s Work, tr., Jean Benedetti. London: Routledge, 2008.