Creating Character
Wed, 20 Sept 2006, 08:27 pmLabrug12 posts in thread
Creating Character
Wed, 20 Sept 2006, 08:27 pmWhat does it take to create a character? For the Actor, Director and Playwright?
Taking the lead of several posts found both from the thread What is this thing called acting? and the recent poll, Why do we do it?, let us look into what are the different techniques that we all use when creating a character.
Method Acting, Stanislavsky, Grotowski, organic, Shakespearian, what-ever. Maybe it's a process that you have developed yourself. Have you ever been challenged by a part so much that it left a mark you have never been able to shake? Or are you able to create a character and dispose of them like yesterdays old suit?
Tell us your tales and let us all learn form your experience.
Jeff Watkins
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Last night I sat and
Wed, 27 Sept 2006, 10:38 amLast night I sat and watched a rehearsal where a particularly unsympathetic character who is absolutely convinced he is right was played with anger and almost every line was shouted. There is no attempt to portray the characters self belief. He simply shouts and stamps around. We must always be very careful not to resort to such simplistic approaches. Even if we do not agree with the belief systenm of our character we must find sympathy somehow. I can't remember the film but I do recall the late Alec Guiness playing Adolf Hitler, he almost had me liking him. His books (Alec Guiness') are worth reading, not as acting manuals but as the decription of a full and rich life in the theatre.
Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing.
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