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K-12 Course on the Internet

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:14:10 +0000

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Digital Ash In A Digital Urn: Does The Digital Age Mean The Death Sentence For Live Theatre?

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:09:52 +0000

With so much content beaming freely across the web, consumers have never had such unfettered access to entertainment. Dilating bandwiths have meant data transfers have shrunk to infinitesimal speeds and, as entire fleets of pirate P2P websites and media data streamers career off all over the place, the notion of actually paying for entertainment is quickly becoming rather odious.

With a West End theatre seat costing you easily in excess of 20GBP, the economic future of live drama is looking decidedly well, shaky. Pair this with the increasing dependence that West End shows have on celebrity and many have forecasted murky waters ahead.

Matt Wolf from the Guardian describes the recent Hollywood invasion of the West End as the “visiting celebrity cavalcade” come to rescue the dwindling audiences dribbling through the gate. A few years ago, Sheriden Morley described in the New York Times how the influx of celebrity had “turned London audiences, once the best and most perceptive in the world, into mindless stargazers.”

Pretty stern stuff isn’t it? But then, that might not be the whole story. After all, can we really declare that traditional theatre has lost its bite?

It certainly hadn’t just over ten years ago, when Sarah Kane’s Blasted premiered at the Royal Court. The fury that splashed over the front pages of nearly every national newspaper the next morning was burnt into the mind of anyone that dared to assume that theatre had lost its power to shock. The violence in the play is no worse than is found in the tamest of Tarantino flicks so why the outrage?

Quite simply, in the cinema, on television or on DVD, the action happens elsewhere, in a shifting world behind a screen. In the theatre, the action is right in front of you; you can hear it, feel it and, if you were really so inclined, you could reach out and touch it. You can watch actors enact the most brutal or intimate scenes on hi-res plasma screens anywhere, but only in the theatre can they watch you right back.

What’s more, It might not just be the available ‘experience’ that saddles defiantly in theatre’s corner. Theatre, it seems, has quietly started embedding itself within popular culture. Although slightly fewer than its predecessors, Ofcom insists that the BBC’s hunt to cast a new West End version of Oliver!, “I’d Do Anything”, steadily attracts over 5 million viewers. Match this with the recent crop of copycat shows like “Hairspray: The School Musical”, which is currently preparing to air on SkyOne, and it may look like there’s fight in the old girl yet.

To many, theatre may not seem like the most viable economic prospect; who would want to pay for entertainment when they can get huge budget content streamed to their home for next to nothing? But then that may be the whole point, where as ‘content’ can be zipped, transfered and then unzipped at any computer the world over, theatre cannot.

Theatre will be affected by technological advances, of course it will, and it may need to change in order to progress, but it cannot be trampled over by the digital stampede because it is a totally different entertainment animal. Streamers may supersede television schedules and force licence fee funded institutions into remission, but it cannot replace what it cannot do to begin with. Theatre is temporal, magical, immediate, personal and not, under any circumstances, available to download.

The Secrets of Method Acting Explained

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:30:08 +0000

I am now considered to be the UK‘s Leading Expert on Method Acting and I have been featured on the BBC, in The Sunday Express, The Metro and The Stage, and I run my own acting school in London. The following exercises are commonly explored in method acting courses as a fundamental part of actor training.

Let me take you through key areas of the technique.

Affective Memory

It was discovered by psychologists in the early part of the 20th Century that the best way to stimulate an emotional response from a human being is through their senses in conjunction with their memories.

It is understood that we perceive the world through our senses. We see, we hear, we smell, we touch, we taste. This is what stimulates us as human beings. It is also understood that the memory of these senses can affect us. For example, we have all felt hungry, thought of our favourite food and started to salivate, or heard a song that has reminded us of a relationship we once had. Our memories are strongly linked to our senses.

In The Method, the acting training shows the actor how to use their personal memories through their senses to produce particular and real emotional responses. For example, if two characters in a scene are going through a break up, the actors involved may work on some sort of experience of loss in their own lives. This could be the loss of a loved one, the loss of a job or the loss of an experience they enjoy.

Through carefully structured acting classes and courses, Method Actors train themselves to fuse the real emotion that is produced with the event and character they are portraying.

Christopher Walken and Affective Memory

Christopher Walken trained at a very famous acting school called The Actors Studio in New York. He took acting courses and acting lessons with Lee Strasberg.

Christopher was asked what he was thinking about when he shot the scene at the end of The Deer Hunter where he plays Russian roulette and kills himself.

He said that when he was younger, his parents made him go to summer camp – he hated going – and the experience filled him with a sense of abandonment, loss and anger. He said that he felt his character was experiencing similar feelings, so he thought about that event during the scene. Christopher Walken understands that events from his own experience can expose the experiences of the character on a much deeper level. This type of work is advanced Method Acting and requires years of acting training to accomplish.

Animal work

The animal exercise helps to recreate an external physicality separate from the actor‘s own.

This exercise has been embraced by many Acting Schools and Drama Schools all over the world, including Drama Schools in

London. It is an important aspect to acting training.

The actor picks an animal that they think reflects the character they are playing. It must be a wild animal, not a domestic pet and not a reptile. The reason reptiles are not allowed is because they are cold blooded and we are warm blooded. The use of birds is also limited.

Once an animal is picked, the actor studies it at the zoo in intricate detail. They research the psychology of the animal, as it provides a great insight into its behaviour and thought processes. For example, Rhinos get a reputation for being an aggressive animal. But the reason Rhinos attack is because they are short sighted and cannot clearly see what is approaching, so they charge to protect themselves. This could be an interesting trait in a character.

The actor then recreates the animal‘s physicality in detail. They get down on all fours or adopt whatever position necessary, and recreate how the animal moves, eats and sleeps. Once they have a strong sense of the animal‘s physicality, the actor then stands up, starts to humanise the animal and says the character‘s lines – incorporating the new physicality.

This exercise is used to great effect by Method Actors such as Marlon Brando, who played an ape in A Streetcar Named Desire, and a bulldog in The Godfather. It‘s worth looking at these performances to see how the animal is manifested into human form.

Method Improvisation

Method improvisation techniques differ from the norm. Method Actors will use affective memory improvisation. This is when they change the affective memory they are thinking about and explore other memories to produce a different experience within the character.

They also use the ’Where Am I Right Now?‘ approach, which is where the actor tries to accurately understand how they are really feeling in the moment during a scene, and use it as a force within the scene.

For example, Dennis Hopper explains that if he becomes aware of external happenings during a scene, he incorporates them. He recounts a time when shooting a scene for a film, that he became aware that the continuity person was watching the length of his cigarette intently. The reason for this was that if the Director shouted ’Cut‘, the continuity person would have to make sure Dennis‘ next cigarette was exactly the same length as the one in the previous scene. Hopper found this funny, and started to laugh in the scene, incorporating the external happening into his work.

These are just some of the techniques used by the world‘s leading Method Actors. Many Method Actors continue their acting training by taking acting courses and acting classes with leading Method Acting teachers. These exercises build unbelievable concentration and really stimulate real emotion, ultimately leading to emotionally charged and moving performances.

There is more to acting than is commonly realised, and the human body (the actor‘s instrument) is capable of very much more than the conventional reality.

Best Regards

Brian Timoney

The UK‘s Leading Method Acting Expert