No Acting Please,9780962970931

No Acting Please

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ISBN13: 9780962970931
ISBN10: 096297093X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-04-01
Publisher(s): Ermor Enterprises
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Summary

A collection of 125 acting exercises that are based on journal excerpts and dialogues from Mr. Morris' classes. These exercises teach the actor to systematically eliminate his or her instrumental obstacles -- tensions, fears, inhibitions -- and explore the "being" state, where the actor does no more and no less than what he or she feels.As the title indicates, many of the techniques herein address the actor's need to avoid falling into the traps of concept and presentational acting. There is also a complete chapter on sense memory -- what it is, and how to practice it and apply it as an acting tool.Co-authored by Joan Hotchkis, and with a Foreword by Jack Nicholson.

Table of Contents

Being
On Being
1(4)
Taped Excerpt From Being Exercise
5(7)
Being Exercise Critique
12(4)
From Joan's Journal, 1970
16(1)
Being in Relation to Scene Work
17(4)
From Joan's Journal, 1972
21(1)
Different Being States
22(3)
Being Exercises
25(6)
Personal Inventory I
25(1)
One-Person BEING
25(2)
Personal Inventory
27(1)
I Am, I Want, I Need, I Feel
28(1)
What Do I Want?
28(3)
Getting Ready To Get Ready
Tension: How it Affects the Actor
31(3)
From Joan's Journal, Tuesday, April 4, 1972
34(1)
Causes of Tension
35(4)
The ``Actress''
39(1)
Dealing with Tension
40(3)
The Physical Relaxers
43(4)
Tense and Relax
43(1)
Logey
43(1)
Rag Doll
43(1)
Original BEING
44(1)
Deep Breathing
44(1)
Abandonment
44(1)
Dump
45(1)
Dealing with the Demon
45(1)
Expose Innermost Feelings in Gibberish
46(1)
The Ingestion Exercise
47(1)
The Involvement Group
47(1)
Taking Responsibility for Others
47(1)
Total Selflessness
47(1)
The Trivial Trio
48(1)
Threshold of Interest
48(1)
Internal Awareness
48(1)
Personal Inventory I
49(1)
Personal Inventory II
49(1)
What Do I Want?
49(1)
I Am, I Want, I Need, I Feel
49(1)
External Awareness
49(5)
Nature Walk
49(1)
Awareness Levels
49(1)
Observe, Wonder and Perceive I
50(1)
Farmer's Market
50(4)
Purposes of the Farmer's Market Exercise
54(1)
Sensory Awareness
54(5)
Sensory Inventory: How the Senses Work
55(3)
Sensitizing
58(1)
Getting to the Deeper Self
59(6)
Stream of Consciousness
59(1)
I'm Afraid That...
60(1)
I Like That . . .
60(1)
I Care, I Don't Care
60(1)
Personal Point of View
60(1)
Center Circle
60(1)
Personal Inventory
60(1)
Self Inventory
61(4)
Getting Related to People on and off the Stage
65(1)
The Round Exercises
66(5)
Ego Reconstruction
66(1)
Reluctancy
67(2)
How I See Myself
69(1)
Feedback
70(1)
Two-People Relationship Exercise
71(8)
Hold Hands and Look at Each Other
71(1)
Two-People Touch
72(1)
Relate as If for the First Time
72(1)
Ask for What You Want
72(1)
Double Exposure
73(1)
Telepathy
73(1)
Observe, Wonder and Perceive II
74(2)
Two-People BEING
76(1)
Rock and Stroke
77(2)
Common Sensory Acting
Sense Memory
79(3)
Sensory Inventory
80(1)
The Sensory Game
81(1)
Application of Sense Memory
82(16)
The Sense Memory Exercise
82(16)
About the Sense Memory Exercise
98(1)
Sense Memory Checklist
99(2)
Marathon: Sense Memory Round
101(8)
Finding Your Best Time and Place to Work
109(1)
Sensory Exploration and Experimentation
110(4)
Sense Memory Looked Forward To
110(1)
Feelies
110(1)
Sense Memory Workout
110(1)
What-Not Boxes
111(1)
On-the-Spot Sense Memorizing
111(1)
Kinesthetics
112(1)
Sense Memory Guessing Games
112(1)
Get a Sense of Being Naked
112(1)
Recreate a Moment from Today
113(1)
Animate an Inanimate Object
113(1)
The Desert Exercise
113(1)
Working with Meaningful Objects
114(1)
Obligation and Choice
115(2)
Using Sense Memory in Scene Work
117(2)
The Rewards of Sense Memory
119(4)
Preparation
``Methinks I Hear a Cannon''
123(1)
Misunderst Anding Preparation
124(2)
Begin by Being
126(2)
One-Person BEING
25(101)
Two-People BEING
126
Personal Inventories
49(77)
The BEING Workout
126(2)
Daily Practice
128(2)
Instrumental Preparations
130(1)
Preparations for Awarencess
130(1)
The Cluster of Four
130(1)
Super Consciousness
130
Farmer's Market
50(81)
Observe, Wonder and Perceive
131(1)
Dialogue on Craft
131(9)
Sensory Inventory
55(24)
Sense Memory
79(53)
Sensuality
132(1)
Ego Preparations
133(2)
Get a Sense of What You Used To Be
135(1)
Take Your Due
135(1)
Sense of Worth
136(1)
Don't Care
136(1)
Positivity and Validation
137(1)
Fun Exercises
137(1)
Comparative Ego
138(1)
Make Yourself Beautiful
138(1)
Take-Over or Evangelist
138(1)
Magic Pocket
139(1)
Yeah! Yeah!
139(1)
Feel and Affirm Self
139(1)
Preparations for Vulnerability
140(1)
Dialogue on Vulnerability
140(18)
Group Vulnerability
142(1)
Pique and Expose Needs
143(1)
Evocative Words
143(1)
Sensory Choice
144(1)
Affection, Tenderness and Love
144(1)
Fear, Love and Hate
145(1)
Ask for Help
145(1)
Imaginary Monologue
145(1)
Abandonment Exercises for Vulnerability
146(1)
Preparations for the Imagination
147(1)
Pretend: Self and Two-People
148(1)
Story Telling
149(1)
Essences and Abstracts
149(1)
Frontis Exercise
150(1)
Fantas
150(1)
Fantasies
150(1)
Children's Games
151(1)
Believability
151(7)
Preparations for Relating to People, Objects and Places
158(11)
Two-People Believability
159(1)
Blind Investigate
160
Observe, Wonder and Perceive II
74(86)
Talk About What You're Most Afraid Of
160(1)
Non-Verbal Communication
161(1)
Relate Moment-to-Moment with What You Feel
161(1)
Share
161(1)
Two-People Trick
161(1)
Imaginary Monologue to a Real Partner but Talking to Someone Else
162(1)
Imaginary Dialogue With Real Partner, Take Personally What's Said to You
163(1)
Pick Up on Every-thing You Didn't Notice Before
163(1)
Make Yourself Comfortable in this Place
163(1)
Build a Beautiful Place Around You
163(1)
Sensory Speculation
164(1)
Affecting How You Already Feel
164(2)
Affecting the Way You Feel About the Other Actor
166(1)
Preparational Inventories
167(1)
Create a Different Environment
168(1)
Sensory Choice To Meet Obligation
168(1)
Make Everything Around You More Important Than You
168(1)
Say Words to Yourself Relating to a Meaningful Experience
169(1)
Preparations for Doing the Role
169
From Joan's Journal: Using Preparation on the Job
169
Two-People Three-Part Relationship
171
Two-People Preparation
171
Group Preparation
172
Pretend Series
172
Character Background Preparation
173
Three-Step Monologue
173
Four-Part Word Preparation
173

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