Class Summary
Warm Up
Games
Games
Exercise
Speechwork
We continue to explore breath.
We start to learn about physical action and how it affects a line.
We explore the way Shakespeare uses sounds to hold our attention, and convince us, which we will soon discover is also an aspect of rhetoric.
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Keep energy up
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Part 1 (5 min)
Part 2 (10 min)
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Question: What do we do, as actors, about lines written in verse? How are we supposed to say them?
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Part 2: Demonstration
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At the end of a line, kick a chair or something else that you won’t hurt yourself kicking
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This exercise is from Barbara Houseman
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Say words with repeated vowels three times:
Find a reason to relish the sound to help you with this.
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What are important things you have discovered or learned?
Some people have handed me speeches pasted from the internet.
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