Please Determine the Following for Your New Monologue

WHO is speaking? What's your age? To what extend are you educated? What are some of your preoccupations (i.e., inner thoughts or obsessions)? How do you walk?! How do you talk?!

WHAT is going on in this part of the play? What are the circumstances? With whom do you have important relationships? Above all, what conflicts are you up against?

WHERE is this monologue taking place? What part of the world? What part of the town or countryside? What part of the house? What part of the room?!

WHEN is this monologue taking place? Morning? Noon? Night? What is the approximate year or decade? What is the season of the year -- fall? winter? spring? summer?

WHY are you saying and doing these things? What motivates you as a character? What do you live for? What are you fighting for? What's at stake here? Who do you love!?!

Speak the Speech

To review the six poems and get started, jump to ClassJump for our course and see "Course Downloads":

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Walk the Walk

Follow this link to ClassJump and see the document called Walk the Walk under "Class Downloads."

Reading Assignments in Acting/Directing Class

Mon., Mar. 21
In class: Introductions; Textbook; Syllabus online.
P.M.: Get to know the book, esp. the Timeline (early pp.).

Tues., Mar. 22
In class: Finish introductions. Rating Sheets.
P.M.: Locate and make a copy of Michael Shurtleff's 12 Guideposts for Actors. They are pretty easy to find online.

Wed., Mar. 23
In class: Please support today's Sub.
P.M.:

Thurs., Mar. 24
In class: Please support today's Sub.
P.M.:

Fri., Mar. 25
In class: Please support today's Sub. Hand in Rating Sheets.
This Weekend: Read Ch. 7 on Acting: pp. 272-293. Any quiz we had on Monday or Tuesday would be an Open Notes quiz.

Mon., Mar. 28
In class: Discussion of Ch. 7. Launch "Walk the Walk."
P.M.: TBA

Tues., Mar. 29
In class:
P.M.: