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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/actingclass/subscribeAcademy Award winner and celebrated acting teacher Milton Justice invites you into his weekly acting class, based on his years of study with the legendary Stella Adler.
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Working With A Partner (opens the original)
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What happens when an actor really looks at the person they’re speaking to? This week, I use Edgar Degas’s painting L’Absinthe to help the class build a relationship with a partner. We begin with what we notice about the woman in the painting, then explore how those observations can become a personal attitude toward her—and an impulse to speak. One actor’s response takes us somewhere unexpected. Along the way, we talk about giving ourselves room to explore, letting the partner affect us, and find
The Play Is Not in the Words (opens the original)
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This week’s episode is a little different. Using the opening monologue from Jack Heifner’s A Wide Place in the Road , Milton invites the class into the kind of conversation actors might have at the first rehearsal of a play. Rather than beginning with the character, the dialogue, or how to deliver the monologue, the class begins with a larger question: What is the play about? The discussion moves from a small East Texas town where nothing seems to change to questions of comfort, stagnation, the
The Scene Starts Before You Speak (opens the original)
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Recorded while working with an actress in a class in Paris, this episode explores one of the most common problems in acting: actors don’t start acting until they start talking. Beginning with the discovery that a character is impulsive, we explore how to turn analysis into experience—imagining the character’s behavior outside the play, creating specific circumstances, and beginning to live as the character before the first line is spoken. Because the scene doesn’t begin when you start talking. I
Don't Talk Away Your Talent (opens the original)
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This week, we explore the actor’s preparation: how to get beyond vague ideas and find something specific that actually feeds you; why we need to shop more widely for choices instead of settling for the first thing that works; and what happens when you return to a choice that worked before. We also look at repetition—how to do the work again without trying to recreate the previous result, how preparation can become shorter once you’ve truly built something, and how to recognize when you’ve done e
It's Enough (opens the original)
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This week's episode is about learning to trust that acting can be built a little at a time – and recognizing when what you've built is already enough.
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