LARGER THAN LIFE MAY 24th/25th Galway City
The scale or size of performance we act with can well depend on our material, type of character, the medium in which we are working ( sometimes film requires an intensity well beyond anything we consider real, and anyway our interpretation of what actually is real or true, is not necessarily an artistic one. Art requires more than reality. We are going to look also at practical considerations of scale of performance, ( particularly important for those touring work ) and look at three short scenes from different pieces which make different demands of scale and performance .Find lightness in creation working with this often ignored area of our work as performers!
Qualities and how to use them
When I was training as an actor bracketed adverbs in scripts were viewed with suspicion. Shyly, artfully,brusquely, fearfully etc etc were seen as something which imprisoned the actor’s creativity and prevented them from being truly open. This was of course, rubbish.
If a playwright writes sharply in a bracket, then that is what it means; sharply.if the actor puts it into their body and voice it is easy to find these qualities with authenticity and see if it feels right. If it does not suit you or your scene partner (or the director) things can be adjusted.
In this series of four online workshops with experienced Chekhov teacher Max Hafler,(author of Teaching Voice and What Country,Friends is this?) we will explore using qualities, for character, ways of being and motivation
We will embody qualities and put them into different parts of the body. And we will review the archetypal qualities of movement ,moulding,floating, flying and radiating through our own body and nervous system and those of the characters we play, to give us an anchor for our roles.
And we will be doing it online, in your own space.
Email chekhovtpi@gmail.com
Wednesdays. 25th June/2nd/9th/16th July. 5pm-7pm Irish Time