Observing Human Behavior
As actors, it is our job, our responsibility to observe human behavior. We do this to understand what it reveals about people and relationships, because it gives us information that we can use, anothe...
9 Dec 202011min
Have Relationship with Everything
WANT MORE? Become a subscriber for bonus content! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/actingclass/subscribe This week, Milton reminds us of the importance of having a specific relationship with ev...
1 Dec 202014min
Staying in the Play
In this episode, we re-examine the concept of the given circumstances. Every play has its own set of given circumstances, from which all drama emerges. It’s helpful to look at your work from this pers...
24 Nov 202017min
The 2 Whys
Somewhere in the process of creating a character, it’s helpful to step back and ask ourselves: why are we doing this play? Why are the characters we’re playing important? Why bother in the first place...
17 Nov 20208min
The Educated Imagination
Cultivating the imagination was one of Stella Adler's core tenets as an acting teacher. But the idea of the imagination is often misunderstood when actors assume that their imagination is limited to t...
10 Nov 202016min
Know Where You’re Going
It essential for us to step back and look at our character's timeline in the play, to know where he or she is going. One of the benefits of playing a role is that, unlike in life, we know what the fut...
3 Nov 202016min
Going There, Wherever There Is
This week, Milton talks about what it means to “go there,” or commit 100% to giving ourselves over to the circumstances of the play. It’s an enormous emotional risk because by letting go completely, w...
27 Okt 202014min
The Past in the Present and the Past
This week, Milton touches on a very tenuous aspect of building a character’s past. There is a difference between experiencing a past event from the perspective of the present, and experiencing the pas...
21 Okt 202017min
