Friday, November 25, 2011

Acting Exercise Relating to Stanford Meisner

We did an exercise last class that was very interesting. Here is the process:

  • Two actors are told a relation (father and son/ sisters/ teammates/ student and teacher)
  • each actor was told a different thing they wanted (the other actor didn't know)
    - sister is angry because the other forgot her birthday/ other sister wants food, but has a no-carb diet
  • actors go on stage and work off each other
We then had to create a scenario, relation, different motives, and place for two actors of our choice.
It was interesting to see which motives could act as blocks or made it difficult for people to work off one another. 

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