Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

As we approach a play and begin letting the facts simmer in our imagination, we can begin to ask questions, as though we are interviewing our character. There are no right or wrong questions and no two actors will ask the same ones. Your own personal exploration becomes part of your signature on the role. But here’s the rub: we cannot answer these questions based on our own limited personal experience, or from the cliches we have absorbed from film and television. We need to do research. What does that look like? Watching interviews and documentaries, or even better: talking to real people who share your character’s attributes and circumstances. The joy of research is that it opens us up to worlds beyond our own where we can shop for choices that feed us and help us build a 3-dimensional human.

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Zadacha

Zadacha

If there’s one word all actors are familiar with it’s “objective.” But how often is the idea of “objective” a practical tool and how often is it an albatross around our necks? Stanislavsky wanted acti...

5 Maj 202019min

Tomatoes, Cucumbers & Toilet Paper

Tomatoes, Cucumbers & Toilet Paper

We've all been there. You look at your script and see something that resembles a list. What do most actors do? They act it as a list and by doing so, sound like they're running down a dull inventory o...

27 Apr 202013min

A Sequence of Thoughts, Not a Cluster of Words

A Sequence of Thoughts, Not a Cluster of Words

WANT MORE? Become a subscriber for bonus content! ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/actingclass/subscribe⁠⁠⁠ When Milton recently asked Gustavo Dudamel, the conductor of the Los Angeles Philh...

21 Apr 20208min

Dear Milton, Please Help Me

Dear Milton, Please Help Me

In the Summer of 1980 during the run of a regional production of Boys in the Band, Milton wrote a letter to Stella Adler asking for her guidance. She responded: “The actor in you is beginning to feel ...

21 Apr 20205min

Building a Believable Backstory

Building a Believable Backstory

Whether you’re auditioning for a pilot or in rehearsal for a Clifford Odets play, our jobs as actors is to launch, imaginatively, into the world of the piece, and open ourselves to its influence. But ...

14 Apr 202017min

I Relate to Her

I Relate to Her

As actors, most of us have had the experience of closely identifying with a character we’re playing. In this episode, Milton talks about the mistake so many of us make when we feel like we relate to a...

6 Apr 202011min

A Brief History of Acting

A Brief History of Acting

How did we end up studying acting in the first place? In this episode, Milton puts his teaching in context by giving us a brief history of modern acting technique; from 19th-century realism to Konstan...

30 Mars 202011min

Talk It Out

Talk It Out

WANT MORE? Become a subscriber for bonus content!⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/actingclass/subscribe⁠⁠⁠In this episode, Milton talks about how writing and thinking are great ways for acto...

23 Mars 202021min

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