ANNIE MCGREEVEY MASTER CLASS
AS IF
Use yourself
If you are nervous—USE THAT!!
MOMENT BEFORE th most important thing you have!!
What has just happened to you before you speak
Peopling the stage
Monologue is a dialogue with silent partners
Choose a point of focus
Prep that you do while you are waiting to go in-DO NOT CHIT CHAT WHILE youa re
waiting—get rid of distractions—concentrate on the inner life of the character using
your active imagination –fill the hopper—then put it aside and become a human
being when you walk into the room
Set the chair before you start
Don’t get into the face of the auditors—keep invisible line between you and the
auditors
Point of focus—the main person you are talking to—right above their heads or
between their heads-the thing that DRAWS YOU IN
PEOPLE THE STAGE-maybe someone is listening be aware and refer to them—this
will give it a different energy and focus
Not that diff auditioning for school of arts than for show
THEY WANT YOU-they want to see someone who is special—you are all special—
bring something unique to the table—be brave to be an actor becaue it is about
revealing self
You have license to be cuckoo
Anything you is a problem is a plus—and I have the power to use it anytime
If you cry, if you laugh, if you are nervous it is GOOD
Be concerned with people in the room, not yourself
NORMALLY your picture and resume will be given to a monitor before hand
Don’t be the one who is needy
Important that you LISTEN to your scene partner—give it air
Clock that he doesn’t take you in
In the hallway at schoolIsabelle-I want to do this with a real partner who is tryng to get away
Comdy is a tragedy expanded plus timing
Same need in a dramatic scene has to be there in comic material
Keep your focus—SEE IT, FEEL IT, TASTE IT—YOU HAVE TO GO THERE
Allow yourself to live the moment—stop trying to manipulate the monologue—see
/play it moment to moment
Trust yourself and use yourself always
GREG—great monologue—you have underpinnings. Difficult because it
is funny and sad
What do you need from your dad—
What do you want to accomplish by telling him these things
What is the action that you would like from him
Acting is visiting the truth of those places and allowing that to happen
Your job is to visit
How are you going to show the guy’s humanity?
Expressing the human conditionIt is a NOBLE PROFESSION beause your are allowing that person in the
dark to expres that feling
Don’t shot yourself in the foot if you refuse aa role because it is too
creepy
PICK A POINT OF FOCUS—I am talking to you—HAVE TO HAVE THAT
ENERGY!—so the audience doesn’t dare look away
You need air between the time you switch—make that emotional shift—
take him in and then let him have it
JULIA
DOG SEES GOD
How hard is it for you to confess about the abortion
The stakes have to be centered in something that was very real for you
Why did you get pregnant? Such a smart girl—usually they want to
punish themselves
Don’t worry it wasn’t yours—so they had sex
Who’s a whore? That would be you
When you’re oing solo work—any extraneous moves take the focus
away –really important to be still so that all of your movement comes
from your center!