Acting Tips: Playing An Action
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2016
- In this video, renowned NY acting teacher & coach, Suzanne Shepherd, shows you how to play an action on stage and screen. Specifically, she reveals how to:
Find out what it is that you want as the character by discovering the clues hidden in the text. This does not mean to just to let the words do the work for you. You need to find what it is that your character wants to win and then go after that action as if your life depended on it.
She use the character Rudolpho from the play "A View Form The Bridge" by Arthur Miller, as an example of how to really play an meaningful action. She walks the actors through a pivotal moment in the play, showing them how mesmerizing really going after what a character wants can be...
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I have never really understood ‘actioning’ Until this video. Suzanne is one of the GREAT teachers in the tradition of Uta Hagen. Incredible.
If you are not actioning . Then your are not acting . PERIOD ! The root word is act. Every moment is about what you want and ... and what tactics or actions you are doing to get it. You have to bread down the script line for line and moment for moment . .
Wow!!!!! This woman is amazing I saw the transformation from a mediocre act to making me cry visualizing his pain as he tries to explain something he cannot explain with words. He needed to add little more frustration due to the fact that inside his head he can express his ideas and feelings but he cannot express them vocally because he cannot speak English very well. He would have added that and it would have been perfect !! But I love this teacher she already have made me a better actors and this is only my 5th video of her.
I love this woman! This Suzanne Shepard!!! I have tears in my eyes!!! The teaching is magnificent!
Oh my! I just stumbled into seeing this video! Suzanne shepherd was my mentor when I finished my Bill Esper studies … Bill suggested I study with her after his class. Seeing her here - her voice is the same and she looks the same! How can that be ? It’s been 30 years! How great to hear these lessons again!
I studied with The Master Teacher Suzanne Shepperd! She changed my life 4 ever. I'm better because of her. I now know what I am doing. If you ever get the privilege to work with her. You are blessed. Love U Suzanne. Jada!
Damn. I studied at HB Studios and with Michael Moriarty when I was brand new in NYC. I wish I had known of Suzanne Shepherd when I was there. I'm getting so much just from these videos. She's amazing.
OMG it hit me so hard when she said that living bird is in your hand and hold her hand like it’s that living baby bird and how precious her hand really becomes brought me to tears
This was great thank you Suzanne
I wish this video had been shot so that we could see what Suzanne was doing with the actors’ hands. Instead we got to look at someone’s back. Frustrating, because the message Suzanne was conveying was so worthwhile.
Right. The bones underneath.
What is the Action?
The script will give you the clues.
What is the actor Doing?
It appears that Su is probably the best acting teacher in the Western word.
She taught me all I know, as an honest actor and too as a stage director. Su is hard on her students, but that's because she want her students to become honest actors. I remember the first time I met Su, she convinced me what a dishonest actor I was.
And I graduated from a reputable college with a BFA. Dear Su saw through the bad teachers I had and she straightened me out.
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This is REALLY good.
This woman is scary as hell...and I want her beside me, teaching me now.
Thank you mam ☺️
very good
Wow good detector if i can call her that way but she so good wow🤞👌❤
There is a big difference between stage and screen acting.
There are some things common, but there are many things that are different.
I think acting is believing that you are the person you are acting to be. One should absorb the character into oneself without pretending.
When I am behind the camera and the director is wanting the actor to feel something and the actor is not delivering then I know that the actor didn't fully understand the character well enough to absorb the character into themselves.
I hate it when actors arrive late and have tantrum fits.
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why would you hurt a woman's hand to show her love? that doesn't make any sense. do women find aggression attractive?
what she did was spoon-feeding according to me by killing actor's individuality.
@@gauravgautam8674 I thought the same. All the verbal shit was good. As soon as she got into the physical, it really caged him, like the bird.
Not knowing this play they’re doing at all and just having the context here, the pain of squeezing the girl’s hand is to show her that staying with her uncle is going to hurt her; her uncle is the person caging the bird, she is the bird… Rudolfo is trying to show her that she needs to fly away and that her uncle needs to let her go. But also, maybe he’s saying that she herself is the cage of her own inner bird, and that she needs to let herself be free from her uncle instead of chaining herself down to him forever. It’s time to leave the proverbial nest and have a life of her own with Rudolfo.
Regarding “spoon-feeding,” this is a rehearsal and Suzanne is either a director or an acting coach during this scene, so she’s doing her job, and doing so excellently. The actor can choose to ignore Suzanne’s coaching, but it would be unwise because this new physical action brings believable depth to the words he’s saying. Compare his first recitation to his final in the clip; there’s more energy, more life to what he’s saying by the end. “Actor’s individuality” is valid when an actor is consciously choosing to move or not move, or when an actor is performing formally, but in a rehearsal situation, an actor’s job is to learn how to perform their character as authentically and believably as possible, and it’s Suzanne’s job to help them get there.
@@keadrincain yep. looking back on this now, my issue was actually with the play and the character's reaction, not the teachers instructions.
Miller’s a view from the bridge. Not one of my favorites. What she’s asking him to do is focus on the action. Focus on his partner. He will learn this and will find it without prompting. Having tools in your toolbox is always good.