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    Intent to Live

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    true potential as an actor”, By Larry Moss The book is referred to as intent to live because most of the great actors who perform the acting seem not to be acting but living. This is depicted on how they portray their act; very real from the eyes of the audience. Larry moss has described these instances in this book on how the actors can achieve this level of acting by sharing out the techniques he has developed for over thirty years. As per Larry Moss description, the techniques highlighted can help

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    Relieved that this odious man had hung up, she slammed the receiver down, and waited a moment to regain her composure after which she would call the said actors into her office. While her assistant prepared the video camera, Kathy poured herself a glassful of Scotch to help settle her nerves after which she gulped it down, and leisurely walked to the door. For a moment, she realized how this town had slowly destroyed her moral fortitude, and it was this diminishment in moral strength that she was

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    Actors Must Go Beyond Immitation and Become the Character What is acting, who are people which we can name actors? In fact we are all actors. Every single human being is an actor in his everyday life. Yet acting can be subdivided into two parts depending on a professional basis or daily one. Within the professional acting there are two major categories, Imitation and the art of becoming. Imitation, is when an actor tries to mime or imitate a certain character by talking the same way and

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    I attended a performance of Noises Off on the evening of Tuesday, March 2nd. My acting response paper is going to be on actress Meaghan Deiter’s character, Dotty/Mrs. Clackett, and how Meaghan’s portrayal was believable, what she did that was effective, and the physical and vocal choices she made. The actress’ performance was very believable for many reasons. There were so many layers to her. Not only is Meaghan an actual person, but she was portraying another human, Dotty, who was playing her

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    Individual Analysis For the assignment of producing a six supplied line 180-second drama short film I was tasked as the 1st Assistant director in our production ‘Hidden’. In my role analysis I shall be examining my role as 1st AD going into depth of preparation, research and contributions I made towards the short film. The main roles of the 1st AD is to creating a shooting schedule, working with the director to decide a shooting order, give directions to crew and actors and be aware of health and

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    The Theory of Relativity, a musical, by Neil Bartram and Brian hill is a play that explores human connection through the use of many characters and their obscure yet relatable situations and experiences. The play revolves around many different characters which includes Mira, Adam, Catherine, Philip and many others who all have songs that allow them to tell their stories. Throughout the play characters have their own personal songs which tells the audience their stories but there are songs such as

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    Hay Fever was a comical play with a strong message. The actors throughout this play steadily used others to gain their own attention. The message this play left behind after many laughs was do not use others, plain and simple. The space was a well-constructed thrust stage however, the stage was not raised off the ground and the seats appeared to be mobile which lead to the belief that this is an Environmental Theater. As for the layout of the stage, there was a couch and a table in center stage

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    I attended Athens West Theatre Company’s performance of, Our Town by Thornton Wilder on October 8th, 2017. The production was directed by Larry Snipes and it was located in the Black Box Theatre in the Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center in Lexington, Kentucky. This show premiered in 1938 and it remains a classic play, and it is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Our Town is a show highlighting universal truths about birth, death, life, longing, love and marriage, looking back at America in the early 1900s

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    While there were theories surrounding the human system of emotions as was aforementioned, these concepts were still known to be speculative, and the inner workings of the human body as a whole remained enigmatic for centuries. Therefore the notion that any one person could harbor the ability to sway the passions that were supposedly dictated by humours, which were believed to be stagnant and involuntary, was mysterious and menacing. Roach encapsulates the fantastical and suspicious perception of

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    I attended the Phantasmagoria for my first performance. This performance was a group of actors and actresses who acted out spooky or scary stories. My favorite performance from the various stories was the story called The Churel: A Tell of Hindu Folklore. This story was about a sister who loved her brothers, but her brothers took her for granted and took everything from her even her life and the life of her unborn child. Because she was filled with rage and revenge her spirit came back and killed

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