SCENE STUDIES PREVIEW

ADA4MI 12 DRAMA
(Communication, Application)
The acting of both students is full, clear, intelligent, simple and deeply felt, something
like great music.
- Sanford Meisner: ON ACTING
STUDENT: ___________________________
Scenes will be performed _____________________
LEARNING GOAL: To use Meisner Technique to build a realistic, emotionally honest
two-person scene
SUCCESS CRITERIA:
ACTING CHOICES ARE GUIDED BY IMPULSES, NOT LINES
Im saying two things to you: learn the lines and pick up the impulses (pg 73)
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INDEPENDENT ACTIVITY IS CLEARLY CONNECTED TO CHARACTER

AND GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES
So you dont have to play at being the character, it is right there in your doing it
(pg 24)
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EMOTIONS ARE DEEPLY FELT, HONEST, AND CONNECTED TO

PREPARATION
Dont come in empty (pg 87) . . . Fulfill in ourselves what we have determined is
our emotional condition before the scene (pg 85)
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RELATIONSHIP IS REVEALED THROUGH PHYSICALIZATION, DISTANCE,

FACIAL EXPRESSION, GESTURE, TONE
Relationship . . . What brings you together? What keeps you together? (pg 125)
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ACTING IS SIMPLE, NATURAL, UNCLUTTERED

Dont be an actor . . . be a human being (pg 128)
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