CAPSTONE REHEARSAL LIST:

Mandatory: Begin each rehearsal with a warm-up. Always begin and end your practice session
with an execution of the scene “any way you want.” (Monologue work-out process.) I will assign
scenes for you to work on on your own.

1. Read Through ___________

2. Make a ground plan. Director will provide ___________
3. Divide into beats with partner ___________
4. Go through the scene on and off the beats. ___________
5. Name the beats ___________
6. Go through the scene with the character who initiates the beat saying the name of the beat.
____________
7. Do a “bastard run.” Go through the scene off book improvising the beats in order – saying as
much actual dialogue as you can readily recall. ____________
8. Soak for time frame. (time frame may transform as you learn more about the scene.)
9. Turn in time frame soak sheets ____________
10. Rehearse the scene without dialogue just executing the time frames ____________
11. Rehearse the scene with dialogue, off book (can keep a list of beats on the set) with time frame.
_____________
12. Soak the scene
_____________
13. Divide the scene into three sections, beginning, middle and end.
_____________
14. Choose the three major referents. One for the beginning, one for the middle and one for the end.
_____________
15. Rehearse the scene focused only on the referents. Execute time frame and all physical tasks. Let
the words fall out of your mouth with no intention to communicate, _____________
16. Rehearse the scene focused on the referents feeling free to talk to your partner about the referents
using the words of the play as a code. Allow your partner to make a difference in your
relationship to the referents.
____________

I’ve completed all these assignments.

_______________________________ ___________________________
_______________________________ ___________________________
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NAME:______________________________

DATE:_______________________________

SCENE:______________________________

WORKSHEET FOR TIME FRAME SOAK:

Imagined events and places in the past.

One Minute:
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings

10 minutes
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings

One hour
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings

Morning
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings

1 minute in the future:

Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings

1 minute
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings

10 minutes
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings

One hour
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings
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3 hours
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings

Evening
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings

GREATEST FEARS
1 minute:
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings

10 minutes
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings

1 hour
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings

3 hours
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings

Evening
Place Activity, behavior Props costume feelings
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What picture of your past and future do you want us to make? What picture is the most interesting to you?
Which one had the most to do with the event of the scene?
Communicate PAST Communicate FUTURE:
PLACE PLACE:
How will you communicate this:

EVENT: (What happened, what you did?) HOPES:

How will you communicate this:

How will you communicate this: FEARS

How will you communicate this:

Present Place_______________________
OBJECTS 3.
1. 4.
2. 5.

Ground plan

Audience
As you rehearse, remain open to the surprise that changes all expectations and reveals new possibilities.
Increase your capacity to be surprised!
ACTOR/ROLE COMPARISON FORM (CAPSTONE)
ROLE (Character’s life) ME (My life) If “yes”: what is the comparison
If “no”: What work will I do to
create that part of the character.
Given social circumstances

1. Time period

2. Economic class

3. Education

4. Job

5. Family

6. Living situation, where

the scene takes place:
(time frame and floor
plan)

Significant relationships

1. Most important
 2. Secondary

3. Other (on stage or

referred to)

Beliefs, Philosophy of life.

What does the character “want” or

“need,” what did the character
come “to do.”

Dilemma: (advanced time frame)

1. Fondest Hope

2. Greatest Fear

Event:

1. This is the moment

when:

2. If this scene hadn’t

happened, what would
life be like?

Other character traits:

STORY STRUCTURE
Once upon A time

Everyday

Then one day

BOT (Because of that, as many as it takes until “finally”)

BOT

BOT

BOT

Finally

So