Course 9: Methods of acting

Course 9.1: Stage Acting

Course 9.1: Stage Acting

If you decide you’d like to become a stage actor, there are lots of styles to choose from! You’d probably think of plays at first. Even though this is a very common form of stage acting, it is definitely not the only one! And if we were to focus on pl

Course 9.2: Screen acting

Course 9.2: Screen acting

Well, of course you won’t be starring alongside Angelina Jolie next week. Becoming a star is hard work! You may never walk the road to fame, but it’s still possible to make a nice living out of acting jobs. And even the biggest stars once started all t

Course 9.3: Comedy acting

Course 9.3: Comedy acting

If we’d ask you to watch some comedy, where will you go? To the theatre? The movies perhaps? Or will you make yourself some popcorn and just stay at home, in front of your television? It doesn’t matter, comedy can be found anywhere! Because comedy is o

Course 9.4: Physical theatre

Course 9.4: Physical theatre

Physical theatre is a very special acting style. Because whereas every acting genre relies on words for telling a story, physical acting does not. Your body is your most important tool in this acting method. It’s not easy to summarize what physical a

Course 9.5: Improvisation: Acting without a script

Course 9.5: Improvisation: Acting without a script

Improvisation is a form of acting which is most suitable for stage performance. Sometimes, screen actors will also do some improv parts, but only for a few seconds in an entire episode or movie. But in improv theatre, the whole show is played without a...

Course 9.6: Shakespeare Acting

Course 9.6: Shakespeare Acting

Do you know any of Shakespeare’s work? We bet you do! His work is impossible to miss. Even if you’ve never read a word he wrote or attended one of his plays, you’ve probably mentioned his lines a few times without noticing. ‘Break the ice’, ‘wear one

Course 9.7: Method Acting

Course 9.7: Method Acting

It’s a common cliché that method actors should copy their characters in real life, leading to extreme situations, such as breaking up with their partners, depriving themselves of sleep for days, shooting drugs or becoming homeless. Ok, hold on for this

Course 9.8: The Meisner technique

Course 9.8: The Meisner technique

In our previous lesson, we’ve talked about method acting, developed by Lee Strasberg. Method acting was becoming very successful, as was Lee Strasberg. So he decided to found the theatre company ‘Group Theatre’ which followed his method. Two of the act