Boleslavsky Chapter 5 OBSERVATION

Essential Questions What is needed to be an actor? How can observation help with action? What is fourth wall?

Is all that is needed to be an actor is to act?   NO!! Talent needs cultivation Silence helps concentration and brings out hidden emotions

You can act your actions from observation/memory or recall You can act your actions from observation/memory or recall. You can observe someone else and use THEIR actions. When you use an action in characterization it becomes your own.

IN theatre teaching and preaching are excluded. PRACTICE MATTERS!!!   IN theatre teaching and preaching are excluded. PRACTICE MATTERS!!!

Observation Helps you notice the unusual or out of the ordinary builds your memory makes you sensitive to sincerity and make believe develops sensory and muscular memory makes you appreciate the differences in people enriches YOU personally

IN recalling and re-enacting you are more alert!   All plays are discoveries about values (things people think are important) and vices (the bad things in people)

  FOURTH WALL is the idea that the stage is a box with a missing wall that the audience can see through. Breaking fourth wall means addressing the audience