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Statues

Two actors go on stage and i provide them with a feeling.  This can be anger, rage, sadness, love, triumphant, excited, depressed, shocked ect.  The two students on stage must assume a statue position expressing the feeling called out.

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Watch The Disney Pixar "Inside Out" Movie that discusses emotions within a middle school aged female. Each student must draw one character from the movie, and presnt their drawing to the class. During the presentation they must discuss their characters emotion and a time in their life in which they displayed that emotion.

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Sierra
Abby
Ebby
Victoria
Davion

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Producing a Theatrical Showcase by Rosalyn Gaines of The Actors Academy 2-6-21

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Copy Cat- This exercise takes place with one actor going on stage or in the center of a room.  The actor must mime a situation.  Could be making breakfast, polishing a pair of shoes, cleaning up a room ect.  The group must observe the actor.  The actor gets one full minute to mime.  When the actors time is up, the drama teacher will select one actor to imitate the scene they just observed.

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Send Back

For this exercise, students stand in a circle facing center.  To start things off, the first student must make a high energy movement and send it to an actor on the opposite side of the circle.  That actor takes the movement, enacts it and sends it back across the circle to another actor.

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Who's your favorite Character ever and why?

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Who's your favorite Character ever and why?

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This question is posed to start the class to help identify who that student may like and or relate too.
The character can be from any Genre:
1. Cartoon
2. Commercial
3. Movie
4. TV Show
5. Web Series
6. Influencer/Personality

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Theatre
Film
Commercial
Reality

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Pass The Box

Students sit in a circle.  The first student will open an imaginary box and mime what’s inside.  They will then pass the imaginary box to the person sitting next to them and they in turn will pull something out of the box as well.

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Number 3 – Knock, Knock, Who’s There?

I assign the students with the character without the other acting students overhearing or the actors can pick a piece of paper out from a paper bag.  The main focus is for the actor to express who they are just by the way in which they knock on the door and for the other acting students to guess who he/she is portraying.

A doctor about to deliver bad news to a patient.

A dog in need of a walk.

A ghost with a warning message.

A parent checking on their baby.

A hitman sent to do a job.

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Number 2 – Character Walk

I have a student walk around the room.  They have to walk as they normally walk without putting on any falsity.  Another students job is to simply take on their exact walk, so much so that you will slowly take on internal character traits just from observing their walk and taking on their walk as your own.  This is a great way to discover character.

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Voice
Location
Diet
Physical stature
Upbringing

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Animal exercise acting games are great because the actor automatically associates themselves as someone other than who they are. The actor can experiment being a gorilla, horse, lizard, shark, kangaroo….any animal.

The actor will spend time working on developing the attributes of the animal in order to create a truthful portrayal.

The next step is to read a monologue or a scene as a cold reading while maintaining the animal character the entire time.  Everything expressed must be expressed as the animal the actor is portraying.

It’s important for the actor to take risks, think outside of oneself and develop a clearer understanding of character.

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Students try the following with their monologue:

1. Read the monologue as fast as they can five times.  Each time they must read it faster than the last.  You must time them.

2. Usse a funny voice to say the monologue out loud all the way through.

3. Try saying the monologue sounding out each syllable.

4. Other students read the monologue out, while the other actor learning their lines listens to the words.

5. Student writes out the monologue a number of times.