Personalisation

with Marilyn McIntyre

Accessing real emotion and genuinely living truthfully in an imaginary set of circumstances often causes actors huge problems. At the Howard Fine Acting Studio Marilyn McIntyre has designed and delivered a program that addresses these issues. Through her many years of experience working with Uta Hagen and Howard Fine, Marilyn has refined a technique that is unsurpassed at liberating actors and allowing them to travel organically through their work.

"A human being attempting to navigate through an event, conflict, discovery, decision, or crisis is compelling to watch. An actor creating truthful human behavior can be compelling too, by using technique to live in the middle of a fictional event and the text to navigate through it. Yet I often see actors keeping themselves on the outside, essentially reporting on the event like a news reporter hovering above in a chopper." Marilyn McIntyre  What Is Personalisation? - By Marilyn McIntyre - Backstage Magazine

Personalisation I - The Fusion of Personal Experience and Imagination
Delivered over 3 weeks
In Personalisation I, an eclectic variety of techniques are used to help the actor find what allows them to discover and bring their most personal, authentic and unique self to their work.

The fusion of personal experiences and imagination is what allows an actor to fully personalise the work. The awareness, clarity, and connectedness of the actor's mind, heart and body are essential in bringing a fictional character to a complex, spontaneous and compelling life. As actors, we examine the human heart and human behaviour from our personal perspectives, which always includes personal experiences and our imagination. They can’t be separated. This will lead the actor to more fully understand concepts/tools, 'transference' ('substitution'), and when and how to use this tool of 'transference' effectively. 

Personalisation II - Application of the Tools*

*ONLY AVAILABLE AS PART OF THE FULL-TIME COURSE

Delivered over 3 weeks
From the work explored in PERSONALISATION I; PERSONALISATION II continues the journey for the actor to find and bring their unique selves to the work.. In a safe environment the actor will be working on structured, non-scripted exercises and improvisations including: Object Exercises 'in crisis', private moment work (solo), structured partner exercises and finally, high-stakes, long-form 'yin-yang' improvisations.

The actor will continue to safely, readily and deeply access emotional life, sense memories, and to efficiently contact, trust and release their instincts and impulses through the duration of the course. All of this will be addressed and explained in class as well how all of this applies to the professional work.

Personalisation 1

Course Dates: May 8th - May 25th

Course times: Wednesdays 6:30pm to 10:30pm, Saturdays 10:00am - 2:30pm

Total hours: 25.5

Fee: $550 (early bird discounts apply - click book now for options)

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