Tips : Ideas for Actors

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ISBN: 9781575252025 | 1575252023
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Copyright: 5/1/2000

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Until very recently, acting was passed on the form of "tips". Here are 205 of them -- ranging from using opposites to the way to set a laugh, and on through a clear definition of "actions", how to use a "breath score", and even how to react if you're fired. The tips are clear, concise, evocative and constructed to give you a better day in rehearsal and a better night in performance. A buffet of ways to improve immediately that you'll want to have with you in your rehearsal bag.

Foreword

How to Use ``Tips''

Text Study

Circumstances

(1)

Beats

(1)

An Action

(1)

Action II

(1)

The Obstacle

(1)

Action and Obstacle in Balance

(1)

Tactics

(1)

Working Backwards

(1)

Subtext

(1)

The Arc

(1)

Transitions

(1)

Theme Threads

(1)

Backstory

(1)

Mysteries

(1)

Personalization

(1)

Inner Monologue

(3)

Technique

Framing

(1)

Neutral

(1)

Doing it in One

(1)

Taking Focus

(1)

Ancillary Action

(1)

New Energy

(1)

Stakes

(1)

The Pause

(1)

Six Moments

(1)

The Needs of Others

(1)

I Know the Line--What's the Attitude?

(1)

The Build

(1)

Clean

(1)

Loud Enough

(1)

Focus

(1)

The New Play

(1)

Pace

(1)

Buying the Pause

(1)

Setting Up Drama

(1)

Overlapping

(1)

Posture

(1)

The Visual Cue

(1)

Pointing Your Feet

(1)

Prop Acting

(1)

Sitting

(1)

Punctuation (Physical)

(1)

Stillness

(1)

The Long Surprising Pause

(1)

Cuing

(1)

Curtain Lines

(1)

Acting While They're Talking

(1)

Loud and Soft

(1)

The Half-Hitch

(1)

Faster or Slower

(1)

Throwing the Line Away

(1)

Dropping the End of the Line

(1)

Listening

(1)

Rhythm

(1)

Dance and Musical Skills

(1)

Torque

(1)

Put the Scene Between You

(1)

Keeping the Lid On

(1)

Self-Reacting

(1)

Drafting

(1)

Setting and Freezing

(1)

Agree/Not Agree/Neutral

(1)

The Curtain Call

(1)

Finding the Light

(1)

Wearing Clothes

(1)

Stone Hands

(1)

Dirty it Up

(1)

Repetition

(1)

Making Faces

(1)

Simplify

(1)

Working too Hard

(1)

Scaring People

(1)

Technique

(2)

Movement in Space

The Small Stage

(1)

Space

(1)

Sniffing

(1)

Entering

(1)

Exiting

(1)

Physical Line

(1)

The Mind/Body Connection

(1)

Bringing Blocking

(1)

Seeing the Part in the Body

(1)

Break the Straight Line

(1)

Metaphor

(1)

Vacillation

(1)

Six Things About Space

(2)

Words

Re-Reading the Script

(1)

Punctuation (Text)

(1)

Language

(1)

The Cherries and the Bowl

(1)

Key Words

(1)

Searching for the Word

(1)

The Memory Speech

(1)

Quick and Light

(1)

Small Talk

100

(1)

Shattering the Speech

101

(1)

Breath Score

102

(1)

Nailing the Plot Point

103

(1)

The Dictionary

104

(1)

Word Trails

105

(1)

Rhythm, Tempo, Tone and Meaning

106

(1)

Going Verbal

107

(1)

Repeated Words

108

(1)

Setting Names

109

(3)

Strategy

Common Sense

112

(1)

The Toothpick

113

(1)

Write the Blocking

114

(1)

Function--The Secondary Character

115

(1)

The Vocal Top of the Scene

116

(1)

Taking Notes/Giving Notes

117

(1)

Learning the Lines

118

(1)

The Bit Part

119

(1)

Quitting and Being Fired

120

(1)

Bad Reviews

121

(1)

Shtick

122

(1)

Doing it Twice

123

(1)

Danger

124

(1)

Rehearsal Clothes

125

(1)

Kissing

126

(1)

Nudity

127

(3)

Comedy

Killing Laughs

130

(1)

Setup/Joke/Reaction

131

(1)

Holding for the Laugh

132

(1)

The Comic Adjustment

133

(1)

Physical Comedy

134

(1)

Comic Timing

135

(3)

No-No's

Angry Too Long

138

(1)

Judging the Character

139

(1)

Scene Stealing

140

(1)

Bad-Mouthing

141

(1)

Rehearsal Manners

142

(1)

The Dressing Room

143

(1)

Conducting the Speech

144

(1)

Self-Pity

145

(1)

Wasting the First Hour

146

(1)

In-Balance/Off-Balance

147

(1)

Tattletale-Ing

148

(1)

Melodrama

149

(1)

Tone

150

(1)

Oversteering

151

(3)

People Stuff

The Actor's Generosity

154

(1)

Consulting the Other Actors

155

(1)

Asking the Director

156

(1)

What's a Dramaturg?

157

(1)

Six Ways to talk to a Dramaturg

158

(1)

Six Ways to Talk to Your Director

159

(1)

Rehearsal Stuff

160

(1)

Six Ways to Talk to a Fight Choreographer

161

(1)

How to Handle an Interview

162

(1)

Disputes with Other Actors

163

(1)

Eating and Smoking

164

(1)

Dealing with a Diva

165

(3)

Building the Role

Go Out/Go In

168

(1)

Touching/Not Touching

169

(1)

Opposites

170

(1)

Sense of Humor

171

(1)

Character

172

(1)

What She Doesn't Do

173

(1)

Losing the Argument

174

(1)

The God of Variety

175

(1)

Class and Culture

176

(1)

Agreement

177

(1)

Attacking and Defending

178

(1)

Staying Onstage

179

(1)

The Absurd

180

(1)

Fear

181

(1)

Metaphor--The Game

182

(1)

One Time Only

183

(1)

Social Rituals

184

(1)

Folding the Play In

185

(1)

Long-Term Relationships

186

(1)

The Dramatic Choice

187

(1)

Time: How Long has it Been?

188

(1)

Do Something Else

189

(1)

The Positive Outcome

190

(1)

The Nightmare Result

191

(1)

Image

192

(1)

Making Hedda Exist

193

(1)

The Current

194

(1)

The Five Senses

195

(1)

The Taxi's Waiting

196

(1)

Status

197

(1)

Counterpoint

198

(2)

Veterans

Bill Paterson

200

(1)

William McNulty

201

(1)

Adale O'Brien

202

(1)

Ken Jenkins

203

(1)

Ray Fry

204

(1)

Fred Major

205

(1)

Lynn Cohen

206

(2)

States of Being

Energy

208

(1)

10 Rules of Concentration

209

(1)

Impulse

210

(1)

Playing With

211

(1)

Emotions

212

(1)

Fighting Spirit

213

(3)

Stations on the Line

Opening Night

216

(1)

Table Work

217

(1)

Run-Throughs

218

(1)

The First Reading

219

(1)

The Muddled Middle

220

(1)

Maintaining the Performance

221

(1)

Acknowledgment

222

(1)

Potential

223

(1)

Theme

224

(1)

Afterword

225

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