This week has been a roller coaster. We attempted to read each others minds, and with another Stanislavsky technique practiced acting “as if”. This became a huge influence in our process, allowing us to take our previous concept of personal experience to our actual bodies on stage. We have passed through the terrifying moment of our first group moment devising activity with high moral and new ideas. Our process has consisted of setting square cubes as a mach set then acting out some action that fits into our overarching story(moving out) then with the snap of someone offstage freezing and then, with minimal movement, reacting to pre-writtin dialog from another actor offstage. We attempted this system with two of our actors and two different dialog. The results were spontaneous and awesome. We found a triggering moment for an actor that up to this point had no idea what to choose or use. The pressure of being forced into a structure and a situation seems to have lead us to find more true reactions. The lack of precognition forced us to react “as if”, Stanislavsky methods, made our previous ideas of real personal experience and emotion present to our acting. The hope that we can show our audience our experiences with nostalgia truthfully, and meaningfully is coming into realization.
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