For the past few weeks, we've been practicing cold readings in our Voice class. We've gone through different genres such as fantasy, sci-fi, crime/mystery, political drama and sit-com. Today we did contemporary realism. We had the choice of doing a scene from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or a monologue from Contact. We've all been doing very well with these genres. Can't wait to see what we do next week!
Tomorrow, we'll be learning a new exercise in Meisner called "One Action". We partner up (as usual), and come up with a circumstance that would call for one of us to do something "criminal" in nature. The entire scene is improved. We may get caught or we may not. The purpose of the activity is to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances. If done well, we may find ourselves breaking out into a sweat or perhaps even shaking. John is the only teacher as SFT that teaches this exercise, so I'm excited to see how it all turns out!
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