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Notes: TIP p35-45

1. Exercise: tempo-rhythm: clap for the character
2. Exercise:reading the play: read and think about the first impressions and find one sentence which you think is the most important and compare to your group mates.Come up with one sentence summarize the plot.
3. Exercise: My character’s past:imagine the whole life of your character since he or she’s born to the start of the play. Tell the story with first person perspective.
4. Exercise: Pinning down my character:think about the character’s super objective and check what others think.
5. Exercise: dividing up the play: divide into small piece of scenes.
6. Exercise: decide an objective for each bit.
7. Exercise: active analysis: analyse the bits(experience the character in action)
8. Teacher-led exercise:go over all bits and check if it agrees the super objective.
9. Exercise: the final run:24h before the first performance.
10. Summary of Stanilavski and the system: imagine as you are the character, using pictures in mind, be relaxed, communicate through voice body and invisible ways, achieve the objective, stick to the super objective, tempo-rhythm links everything around the stage.

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