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Larry Moss
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January 4 - May 30, 2019
Repeat Exercise
point of the exercise is to be authentic—which means to not act but to discover in the moment.
pinch-ouch.
Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing,
The Red Peppers, that Noël Coward wrote
“An actor should be a volcano in a completely relaxed body.”
Release Exercise
Howard Sackler’s play The Great White Hope,
In case you think that “still waters running deep” is a mood—and I’ve said you cannot play a mood (remember,
mood spelled backwards is . . . )—it is really not a mood.
The excitement in acting is allowing yourself to explore the circumstances you’re in and having
fun playing them, and if a director or a casting director gives you an adjustment, instead of defying them or feeling criticized, you get the pleasure of trying it a new way.
All of the work that you do in analyzing the text and committing to choices is your protection against fear.
Stella’s advice to recognize that fear is only a small part of you and to talk to your fear and put it in its place.
simple exercise of breathing
love in and breathing fear out.
Billie Dawn in Garson Kanin’s Born Yesterday,
Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice.
three excellent books, Working with the Voice, The Right to Speak, and The Need for Words.
The Days and Nights of Beebee Fenstermaker, by William Snyder.
serious actors take on the challenge of being dedicated to
absolutely authentic, specific dialects.
Being a good actor is not about being comfortable,
it’s about having a vision of your own potential and having the desire to learn about and appreciate many other cultures
that you can illuminate through your work. Actors are citizens of the world and can b...
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people who have never experienced them before. Actors are also time travelers who can bring...
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from centuries before and make them com...
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Early in rehearsal, in grounding your performance in truth, you can
On creating comedy
go through a stage where your rehearsal process doesn’t necessarily concern itself with being funny because you are simply
going for the...
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inappropriately low energy can sink the comedy.
TEMPO IS CRUCIAL. WHEN IN DOUBT, GET ON WITH IT.
get on with the line and don’t stop the ideas until the scene demands a pause.
His Girl Friday, Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell have more dialogue than any movie ever
made—
LEARN HOW TO PUT OVER A JOKE.
COMEDY IS A PHYSICAL ART.
LEARN FROM THE MASTERS. I believe that
Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in the 1950s
Your Show of Shows,
bold comic
choice, stay truthful to the need of the character, and take the choice to an extreme with no apology.
Lily Tomlin, in All of Me,
“The scene is not about you. The scene is about the story and sending your ideas to your
partner so that they can understand and feel what you’re saying and can give a full response and send their ideas back to
y...
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Tender Mercies.
how you use your face.
“Don’t show me your point of view, have one.”
Terms of Endearment
