ACTING TECHNIQUE

Actors need to be authentic, truthful, emotionally connected, imaginative, energized, expressive, and engaging.  They must be able to employ a range of techniques to shape, fulfill, and sustain a stage or screen performance.

The Actors' Program has practical technique classes that aim to:

  •  Teach actors script analysis and interpretation techniques that will assist in pre-rehearsal and on-set prep for stage and screen

  •  Give students the skills to approach and perform classic and contemporary texts with ease, understanding, truth, and the versatility to bring any type of script alive in performance

  •  Explore a variety of techniques, both classic and contemporary, that give the student a tool-box from which to draw when acting on stage and in front of a camera

  •  Allow the actor to develop her or his own imagination, creative voice, emotional truth, and ability to connect with other actors in an organic and generous way

  •  Enable the actor to improvise scenes in a variety of situations, eg. script creation, character exploration and development, rehearsals, auditions, role play employment, on stage improvised performance, and on screen filmed improvisations; also to further use improvisation skills in the creation of self-devised work for stage and screen

  •  Broaden and deepen the actor's characterisation through research, practice, solo, and group improvisation and a variety of specific classes and modern techniques taught in the classroom, in rehearsals, and in performance

  •  Prepare the actor for real life professional performance work

  •  De-mystify and clarify the audition process through classes with, and on-site auditions for, casting agents