Unit 5

Unit #5: Rehearsal Process (Monologues & Scene Work)

The process of rehearsal from first read-through, to rehearsals with a cast or acting partner, to performance.

How to transform the rehearsal space into the imagined space.

Warm-Ups & Improvisation

Getting and giving notes

Methods on ‘personalizing’ a role (i.e. emotional recall, substitution, etc.)

Exploring, defining and playing an action in pursuit of an immediate and urgent objective in an effort to overcome a powerful obstacle.

Consent, Collaboration and Power Dynamics in Rehearsal

How to take what you are given as an actor and not what you want to, or think you should be, given.

Memorization of lines.