The Boards - Tuesday - 7/1
He'd put out the make up kits he'd bought with a brand new credit card and waited for everyone to come in.
"All right, folks. Today, we get to learn how to apply stage makeup. Girl, guy, straight, bi, gay, flesh, or, uh, not, stage make up is necessary for any performance. You might think you look perfectly fine up there on the stage, but once ( Read more... )
"All right, folks. Today, we get to learn how to apply stage makeup. Girl, guy, straight, bi, gay, flesh, or, uh, not, stage make up is necessary for any performance. You might think you look perfectly fine up there on the stage, but once ( Read more... )
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"Ah, my sweet Moor, sweeter to me than life!"
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"And pick something quieter."
He was working against the acoustics, what acoustics there were (he'd tried, but he wasn't a miracle worker), so he did have to almost shout.
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"Know, thou sad man, I am not Tamora;
She is thy enemy, and I thy friend:
I am Revenge: sent from the infernal kingdom,
To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind,
By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes.
Come down, and welcome me to this world's light;
Confer with me of murder and of death:
There's not a hollow cave or lurking-place,
No vast obscurity or misty vale,
Where bloody murder or detested rape
Can couch for fear, but I will find them out;
And in their ears tell them my dreadful name,
Revenge, which makes the foul offender quake."
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"Lesson one? Keep your chin up. You can put your eyes down, in fact for certain scenes you should, but your chin shouldn't drop too far or you're speaking to the ground."
He showed her exactly what he meant, extending his neck a little to seemingly put his head down while still keeping his chin up.
"Lesson two... where's the air?"
He looked to her curiously.
"When you're talking. When you're talking, where do you feel the air pressure before it goes past your vocal cords?"
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"The air?" she asked, looking confused.
"Well. I take a breath, so I guess I feel it here," she placed her hands over her chest, "first."
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"You need it here."
He pointed to his stomach.
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"So I'm not talkin' loud enough? Is that it?"
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"It has nothing to do with volume and everything to do with tone," he said. "A good place to get your tone is from your stomach. It keeps it rich, deep. Gives it dimensions.
"Then you bounce if off the back of your throat to make sure it keeps it's brightness, not that I'm thinking you'll have a problem with that one, to keep your words clear. Then there's enunciation and all that" he waved his hand "but we'll get there."
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Princes, that strive by factions and by friends
Ambitiously for rule and empery,
Know that the people of Rome, for whom we stand
A special party, have, by common voice,
In election for the Roman empery,
Chosen Andronicus, surnamed Pius
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"Okay," he said, a little loud as his ears were still recovering and pretending they weren't there in the meantime. "Okay" and he was walking up "we've got to modulate you a little. Here we go."
He hopped up on the stage and pointed to the back of the room.
"I want you to speak just loudly enough that someone back there can understand you. Now, so we can do that, I'm going to start walking back. Talk slowly and get louder as I go in very little steps. I'll stop when I can't hear you until I can hear you. When I get to the back and put my thumbs up, that's just the right amount. Okay?"
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Bleeding To Rome, Bearing His Valiant Sons In Coffins From The Field..."
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"Right here!" he shouted before trotting up. "Perfect."
He smiled at her.
"That really is rather remarkable, you know."
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