The Bennett Theatre Lab offering: ACTING FOR PLAYWRIGHTS - An exploration

 

From: Philip G. Bennett [mailto:philipgbennett@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:29 PM
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PROFESSIONAL ACTOR TRAINING IN THE STANISLAVSKY SCHOOL OF ACTING

 

ACTING FOR PLAYWRIGHTS - An exploration

A series of six week workshops for playwrights.  Improve your writing skills by experiencing the actor’s process first hand.  Use your script, or write one, to Explore:  Writing through Improvisation, Play Structure, Character, Dynamic Action and Conflict

Time:               Saturdays, 10:00 – 11:50 am (with the exception of Sat. October 18^th ;  3:30 – 5:30 pm)

Dates:              September 20 through October 25, 2014    (6 Weeks)

Fee:                 $180.00

Location:         The Historic Y - 738 N. 5^th Avenue at University Blvd., Tucson, AZ  85705

Contact:  Philip G. Bennett at - 520-468-1664 - philipgbennett@yahoo.com

 

WORKSHOP ONE

Class Outline:           The Stanislavsky System of Acting for Playwrights – An Overview

September

20                                Non-Verbal Action, (Obstacles, Adaptations,) Character Biographies and Backstory, Images Vocabulary of the System

27                                Visualization, Inner Monologue/Dialogue, Pauses, ellipsis, punctuation and Zones of Silence

October

4                                  Verbal Action, (Main Action and Counter Action) Dynamic Action and Conflict

11                                Telling the Story through Named Events, (Plot Development)

18                                Kernel (seeds), Themes, Through-Line of Action and the Supertask of the Character

25                                The Arc of Dramatic Action and Supertask of the Play

 

Philip G. Bennett, Artistic Director is internationally recognized as a master teacher of the Stanislavsky System of Acting with 45 years of experience. He holds a BA in Humanities and is a graduate of the renowned American Stanislavsky Theatre in New York, where he served as actor, teacher of acting and Assistant Artistic Director to Sonia Moore, émigré actress/director from the Third Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre.

During Mr. Bennett’s forty plus years of professional experience he founded the San Francisco Theatre Academy, with film affiliates in the Bay Area and Hollywood.  He is a recipient of the prestigious Hollywood DramaLogue Award for Best Direction and Debut of a New Company.  Graduate students appear regularly in film and television, and are accepted in conservatories and repertory companies in the US and the UK.  Mr. Bennett’s new textbook, written with co-writer Prof. Stephanie Daventry French,  An Actor in Training – Experiencing Stanislavsky for the 21^st Century  is being published by Routledge Academic Publishers, London and New York for world wide release in February 2015.

 

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