MASTERCLASS SCENE STUDY
This Masterclass will provide in-depth knowledge of how to approach a written text and portray it in a credible way with presence and authenticity on stage. Through different approaches including the Michael Chekhov system, the Meisner work among other methodologies, the actor will be provided concrete tools to ultimately find the space to free themselves from themselves. Through guided exercises, the students will begin with an approach to their character through its body language, external resistance in the body and the character’s attitude towards itself and the other world – ultimately to enter into a deep relationship with them. These different characters will be “interviewed” to uncover the inner conflict, what they long for or hope for the most. When these people feel like real people where the actor doesn’t have to think but just “be”, they are introduced to various exercises such as: “Rehearsal play”, “Emotional preparation”, “Independent activities” and “Relationships”. All these moments are practiced separately and together in various systematic improvisations.
- Identify styles and genres: realism, tragedy, comedy, farce, Brechtian, etc.
- Knowledge of how to surface key questions to approach a scene and the best moments to build a scene: Who, what, when, where, why and how
- Understanding the objective at any given moment and as they change to the needs and desires of the characters
- “Beats” and “scene blocking”
- Knowledge of approaches to characterization
- Understanding choice and archetype; find variety and individual personality
- Understanding the difference between oneself and the character
- Tools to open up the instrument encouraging the actor to become receptive, find deeper listening and presence on stage
- Develop an understanding as to how to capture the character’s concern in a given fictional situation.
- Ability to listen and take in one’s counterpart while at the same time allowing one’s own emotional register to be open and accessible
- Tools to center yourself and react to impulse and gut feeling with your scene partner and the ensemble
Information
25 august – 29 august
Time: 16:00 – 22:00 PM
Duration: 4 days
Price:
- Attende: 9800 kr
- Auditor: 5400 kr
The course is in English.
About CHRIS NOTH
Two-time Golden Globe nominee and SAG Award nominated actor Chris Noth sets the bar for strong, charismatic leading men in television and film. Chris rose to prominence as “Detective Mike Logan” on the original LAW AND ORDER, before going on to set hearts aflutter as the iconic “Mr. Big” on Darren Star’s HBO groundbreaking series SEX AND THE CITY. He garnered his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television playing the unattainable bachelor who gradually evolves into the love of Carrie Bradshaw’s life. Their tumultuous storyline launched two blockbuster films: SEX AND THE CITY and SEX AND THE CITY 2, in which he continued to star alongside Sarah Jessica Parker. Noth’s complex performance in CBS’s THE GOOD WIFE as “Peter Florrick” opposite Juliana Margolis earned him a second Golden Globe nod. He recently starred opposite Sam Worthington and Paul Bettany in Discovery’s MANHUNT: UNABOMBER and the final season of the FX series TYRANT.
On the film side, Chris can most recently be seen in Xavier Manrique’s CHRONICALLY METROPOLITAN opposite Mary-Louise Parker, as well as Elizabeth Woods’ WHITE GIRL alongside Morgan Saylor. WHITE GIRL premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016, earning a nomination for the Grand Jury Prize. Other feature credits include Universal Pictures’ THE PERFECT MAN opposite Heather Locklear and Hilary Duff, William Blake Herron’s A TEXAS FUNERAL with Jane Adams and Michael Sheen, Millennium Films’ LOVELACE alongside Juno Temple, Amanda Seyfried, and Peter Sarsgaard, and Robert Zemeckis’ CAST AWAY
The stage is Noth’s first love. Since graduation from the Yale School of Drama, he has appeared in numerous plays both on and off Broadway. He most recently starred as Faustus in Classic Stage Company’s Off-Broadway production of DR. FAUSTUS. Broadway credits include THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON with Kiefer Sutherland and Jason Patric and Gore Vidal’s THE BEST MAN with Elizabeth Ashley and Charles Durning, for which Chris received a Theatre World Award. Off Broadway, Noth starred in the Atlantic Theater’s Production of FARRAGUT NORTH with John Gallagher Jr., and then again in Los Angeles at the Geffen Theater with Chris Pine. He also starred in WHAT DIDN’T HAPPEN at Playwrights Horizons, and ARMS AND THE MAN at the Roundabout Theater. He is currently starring in the role of “The Father” in Atlantic Theater’s production of THE MOTHER opposite Isabelle Huppert and Justice Smith, which is already sold out through its April run.
Noth resides in New York and Los Angeles. He recently wrapped filming his guest star role as “James Cohen” is season 4 of Amazon’s Emmy winning series CATASTROPHE and can currently be seen starring in Matt Lopez’s NBC International limited series GONE.
About JD GLICKMAN
Some of Glickman’s International Stockholm, NYC and LA directorial credits include: Pillow Talk by Peter Tolan (NYC and LA), Fast Girls, The Bachelor Party, In the Boom Boom Room, True West, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Stone, Extremities, The Odd Couple (women & men version), Angles in America, Fool For Love, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, The Motherfucker with the Hat, Long Days Journey Into Night, American Buffalo, Barefoot in the Park, Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Glass Menagerie, Spoon River Anthology, Oleanna, The Great God Pan, Equus, Gungfly (original play – end production – co-director) and Jean Paul Sartre’s “No Exit” at the Lab Theatre, Randolph College. He directed both original plays The Statement and Sex, Shoplifting and Rock and Roll and Takedown, which premiered in NYC at Theater for the New City.
Some of Glickman’s notable stage acting credits: NYC, Los Angeles, St. Louis & Stockholm: Of Good Stock, Fred, Playhouse Theater Stockholm, The Enormous Radio: Jack Tate, The Merchant of Venice: Prince of Aragon, Central Park Shakespeare Festival, The Elephant Man: John Merrick, The Actors Space Theatre, Edmond: Customer and Preacher, Chekhov Studio Theatre, In The Boom Boom Room: Al Royce, Chekhov Studio Theatre, True West: Lee, Chekhov Studio Theatre West, A Weekend Near Madison: Jimmy, Chekhov Studio Theatre, See How They Run: Clive Winton, Webster Theatre, Spoon River: Eugene Carman, Chekhov Studio Theatre, Pillow Talk: Aaron, The Gardner Stage, Waiting for Lefty: Dr. Benjamin, Lillian Theatre, The Author’s Voice: Todd, 3rd Street Stage, Neighborhood Crime Watch, Ronald, Webster Theatre, Long Days Journey Into Night: Edmund, Chekhov Studio Theatre. He most recently appeared in the original play Takedown, Lucas (Director of Play), written by Claude Solnik on the off-Broadway stage, Theater for the New City, NYC.
Some of his TV and Film credits include, Melrose Place, Models Inc., NYPD Blue, En Pilgrim Död and Last Exit to Brooklyn, Below 30/Above 10,000, Coffee Date, Dark Rider and Rosenberg, which he co-wrote, acted in and produced which made its US premier at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival. His most recent work includes playing the role of Frank in the new TV series “How To Make It In Hollywood” and the sci-film “Dreamster” directed by Ludvig Gür, which premiered at Screamfest in Los Angeles at the Chinese Hollywood Theater.
Glickman received his BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where he trained at the Circle-in-the-Square Theater Conservatory with Alan Langdon, John Malkovich and Tony Greco and The Michael Chekhov Studio with Beatrice Straight, Mala Powers, Fern Sloan, Joanna Merlin, Ted Pugh and Mel Gordon. In addition to his formal studies, he continued his training in New York City at The Actors Space with Alan Langdon, The William Esper Studio with Suzanne Esper as well as Darryl Hickman and Tony Greco in Los Angeles.
He is a celebrated teacher and has instructed hundreds of actors the Michael Chekhov work at The Michael Chekhov Studio Los Angeles, COCA (St. Louis, MO), Randolph College, Conservatory (Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis, Milan, Paris and Stockholm) and has instructed/directed at the Stella Adler School of Acting, NYC and in Stockholm, Sweden has instructed at Kulturama, Calle Flygare, Stockholms Dramatiska Högskola, Stockholms Musikpedagogiska Institut, Kungliga Musikhögskolan. He is the Artistic Director of Actors Studio Stockholm in Stockholm. He lives in New York CIty and Stockholm.