Practical Aesthetics
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‘Think before you Act, so you can Act before you think.’ |
What is Practical Aesthetics?
Practical Aesthetics is a practical approach to acting, developed by the director and playwright David Mamet and actor William H Macy. It was developed as an antidote to the confusing, inaccessible and shame inducing acting approaches, often promoted in mainstream actor training. It draws from the later writings of Stanislavsky, the works of Sanford Meisner, Joseph Campbell, Aristotle, Carl Jung and philosophy of stoicism.
It’s ethos is simple and effective and is an essential tool for anyone who feels they have never had a truly reliable and systematic technique from which to approach any and every script. Too many systems and teachers ask you to ‘have a technique’ without ever giving you a basic scaffolding on which to develop your own person approach, or alternatively demand you only adopt and memorise their specific ‘all encompassing’ textbook. This is not another 12-20 step system that tends to confuse you further. This is a simple 4 step technique that will do the only thing an acting technique should do, set you free.
It’s ethos is simple and effective and is an essential tool for anyone who feels they have never had a truly reliable and systematic technique from which to approach any and every script. Too many systems and teachers ask you to ‘have a technique’ without ever giving you a basic scaffolding on which to develop your own person approach, or alternatively demand you only adopt and memorise their specific ‘all encompassing’ textbook. This is not another 12-20 step system that tends to confuse you further. This is a simple 4 step technique that will do the only thing an acting technique should do, set you free.
What to expect?
- Learn from scratch the fundamentals of the Practical Aesthetics approach to acting
- Learn to apply your common sense through a simple 4-step script technique breakdown
- Be guided through how to correctly navigate the technique and apply it to any script
- Translates directly into ‘on-your-feet’ exercises that mirror the script technique
- Learn how to be a self sufficient actor and form a foundation from which to build upon
- Strictly limited number of participants to allow enough time for discussion, individual work and feedback
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To register your interest, please email classes@playwithfireproductions.com
