Meisner Technique, Part 5
It's a bit "overdue" due to my illness, but I wanted to post it today before my class tonight. We were only four that time, but it was a good and informative class.
As usual, we started with a review. This time of the Working Off game and the Pinch and the Ouch game. Briefly, the Working Off game starts just like the Three Moment game, and then: Person B repeats/names change in Person A; Person A repeats/ names change in Person B; Repeat.
The Pinch and the Ouch game starts the same only here Persons A and B repeat or react if provoked by the other person.
Then we went over the homework and listed all the physical actions in the scene from the play given to us long time ago. Then we defined the difference between those activities and actions: Activities you can do without someone being there, while the reasons behind those activities are the actions [what we want to do to the other person].
Then we discusses the Super Objective, which is shown through the lines of actions. The Super Objective is basically the message the playwright is trying to convey. In each story there is the triangle between the Protagonist, the Antagonist and the Deciding Agent (the one that sets the drama or conflict. Usually appears in the beginning and the end of the story. We demonstrated the triangle in Star Wars [Luke vs. Darth Vader with Leah as the Deciding Agent] and in Hamlet, whose Super Objective is that revenge is futile. Hamlet, obviously is the protagonist with his uncle as the antagonist and the ghost of his father as the deciding agent.
The rest of the class was dedicated to the Independent Activity exercise. It goes like that: Person A does his independent activity (mine was to type a long text message). Person B knocks on the door (and pretends the door is locked) and when Person B enters the room [under the circumstance that they must do the Pinch and Ouch exercise]. Person A must continue to do his or her activity while Person B's objective is to do the exercise. Simply put, the game is to play the game (and boy, how hard it is to avoid asking questions!)
As usual, we started with a review. This time of the Working Off game and the Pinch and the Ouch game. Briefly, the Working Off game starts just like the Three Moment game, and then: Person B repeats/names change in Person A; Person A repeats/ names change in Person B; Repeat.
The Pinch and the Ouch game starts the same only here Persons A and B repeat or react if provoked by the other person.
Then we went over the homework and listed all the physical actions in the scene from the play given to us long time ago. Then we defined the difference between those activities and actions: Activities you can do without someone being there, while the reasons behind those activities are the actions [what we want to do to the other person].
Then we discusses the Super Objective, which is shown through the lines of actions. The Super Objective is basically the message the playwright is trying to convey. In each story there is the triangle between the Protagonist, the Antagonist and the Deciding Agent (the one that sets the drama or conflict. Usually appears in the beginning and the end of the story. We demonstrated the triangle in Star Wars [Luke vs. Darth Vader with Leah as the Deciding Agent] and in Hamlet, whose Super Objective is that revenge is futile. Hamlet, obviously is the protagonist with his uncle as the antagonist and the ghost of his father as the deciding agent.
The rest of the class was dedicated to the Independent Activity exercise. It goes like that: Person A does his independent activity (mine was to type a long text message). Person B knocks on the door (and pretends the door is locked) and when Person B enters the room [under the circumstance that they must do the Pinch and Ouch exercise]. Person A must continue to do his or her activity while Person B's objective is to do the exercise. Simply put, the game is to play the game (and boy, how hard it is to avoid asking questions!)