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| Preface | |
| Acting One | |
| Introduction | |
| Preparation For Acting | |
| Preparing to Act Relaxation | |
| Exercise 1-1 Relaxation | |
| Trust | |
| Exercise 1-2 Spine Lengthening | |
| Exuberance | |
| Exercise 1-3 BAM-POW, Dance, Sing | |
| Discipline | |
| Criticism | |
| A Playful Attitude | |
| Freedom | |
| Preparation | |
| What Is Acting? Exercise 2-1 Pledge Your Allegiance to a Flag | |
| The Actor's Approach | |
| Goal and Obstacle Fundamental Principle | |
| Exercise 3-1 Reaching | |
| Exercise 3-2 Reaching for Goals | |
| Exercise 3-3 Overcoming an Obstacle | |
| Self-Consciousness | |
| Exercise 3-4 Doing vs. Being | |
| Projection | |
| Exercise 3-5 Resonating | |
| Exercise 3-6 Resonating (A Continuation) | |
| Exercise 3-7 Goals | |
| Acting with the "Other" The Other | |
| Exercise 4-1 Making Your Partner Smile | |
| Interactive Dynamics | |
| Exercise 4-2 Vulnerability | |
| Exercise 4-3 Discovery | |
| The Character | |
| Tactics | |
| Exercise 4-4 Using Tactics | |
| Exercise 4-5 One Two Three Four Five Six Seven | |
| Monologues | |
| Exercise 4-6 Inventing the Other | |
| Beginning to Act Contentless Scene | |
| Exercise 5-1 Contentless Scene I | |
| Intensifiers | |
| Exercise 5-2 Intensifying | |
| Physicalizers | |
| Exercise 5-3 Varying Locale or Action | |
| Exercise 5-4 Contentless Scene II | |
| Tactics Punishment and Reward | |
| Playing Tactics | |
| Exercise 6-1 Frighten Your Partner | |
| Exercise 6-2 Building Intensity | |
| Exercise 6-3 Try to Make Your Partner Cry | |
| Exercise 6-4 Movement and Contact | |
| Exercise 6-5 Encourage Your Partner | |
| Alternating Tactics | |
| Exercise 6-6 Mixing Tactics | |
| The Middle Ranges | |
| Exercise 6-7 Eliminating the Extremes | |
| Expectations Expecting Victory | |
| Exercise 7-1 Playing Bored | |
| Positive Goals | |
| Exercise 7-2 Enthusiasm | |
| Exercise 7-3 Try the Impossible | |
| Eye Contact | |
| Exercise 7-4 Tactics and Expectations | |
| GOTE A Basic Method | |
| "Get Your Character's GOTE" | |
| Exercise 8-1 The GOTEsheet | |
| The Actor's Task | |
| Preparing a Role Finding Your Role | |
| Finding Your "Character" | |
| Editing a Scene | |
| Memorization Methods | |
| Cues: Action Cues and Line Cues | |
| Studying the Part | |
| Exercise 9-1 The Gentleman Caller I | |
| Rehearsing Rehearsals | |
| Undirected Rehearsals | |
| Rehearsal Alternatives | |
| Exercise 10-1 The Gentleman Caller II | |
| Staging the Scene Stage Directions | |
| Creating the Locale | |
| Movement and Stage Business | |
| Interesting Positions | |
| Reaching the Audience | |
| Exercise 11-1 Setting the Stage | |
| Choices The Need for Choices | |
| Good Choices | |
| Exercise 12-1 Bold Choices | |
| Performing Stage Fright | |
| Classroom Performance | |
| Play for Results--In the Other Character! | |
| Evaluation and Improvement Helpful Criticism | |
| Reworking | |
| Exercise 14-1 Scene Presentation | |
| The Actor's Instrument | |
| The Actor's Voice Breathing | |
| Exercise 15-1 Breathing from the Abdomen | |
| Phonation: Making Sounds | |
| Exercise 15-2 Sounding | |
| Resonance | |
| Exercise 15-3 Exploring Resonance | |
| Pitch | |
| Exercise 15-4 Exploring Your Pitch Range | |
| A Stageworthy Voice | |
| Exercise 15-5 Speaking with Resonance | |
| Stage Speech Good Diction | |
| Speech Sounds | |
| Exercise 16-1 Vowels | |
| Exercise 16-2 Repeating Syllables | |
| Exercise 16-3 Consonants | |
| Exercise 16-4 Speeches | |
| Using Your Voice Liberation | |
| Exercise 17-1 Rude Chants | |
| Exercise 17-2 Rude Cheering | |
| Exercise 17-3 Fancy Talk | |
| Exercise 17-4 Address a Group | |
| Purposefulness | |
| Exercise 17-5 Adding Purpose | |
| The Actor's Body Agility | |
| Exercise 18-1 Fast Warm-Up | |
| Alignment | |
| Exercise 18-2 Improving Alignment | |
| Walking | |
| Exercise 18-3 Sixteen Walks | |
| Exercise 18-4 Walk and Talk | |
| Sitting and Standing | |
| Exercise 18-5 Walk, Talk, Sit | |
| Velocity: Accelerating, Decelerating, and Constant | |
| Exercise 18-6 Acceleration/Deceleration | |
| Counterpoise | |
| Exercise 18-7 Contraposto | |
| Exercise 18-8 Contraction/Extension | |
| The Dynamics of Effort | |
| Exercise 18-9 Distinct Movements | |
| Exercise | |
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