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I. The first aspect involving some theories about Acting

includes Script Analysis.

A. Define

1. Pages of dialogue
2. Actor figures out what is happening

B. Uta Hagen/”The Challenge for the Actor”/Teacher

1. Character’s intention
2. breaking script into “beats”
a. “Moments in time”
b. example
i. wake up
ii. what is happening every second

C. Sanford Meisner/”On Acting”/teacher and theorist

1. Quote
“Find what stands in the characters’s way.”
2. obstacle
a. wake up example
b. bathroom occupied
II. The next aspect involving some theories about Acting involves
Character Development.

A. Define
1. Actor not like character
2. Al Pacino example
a. Scarface
b. Scent of a Woman

B. Personalization
1. Define
2. Hagen
a. substitutions
b. example
i. mom dies in a scene
ii. aunt or cousin
3. Meisner
a. “as-if” exercise
b. imagination
i. mom dies
ii. fully imagine it
iii. feelings will be real

C. Physicalization
1. Define
a. physical life
b. examples
i. runners @ nyc marathon
ii. eating in restaurants
2. Elia Kazan Narrative/ “Streetcar Named Desire”
a. Brando preparing
b. Bronx zoo
c. Gorilla Cage
d. examples from movie
i. walking
ii. hitting wife