Weekend Acting Workshops
“If you are like me, and you like to get the feeling, when watching a play or film or whatever, not that the actor is performing for you, but that you are being let in on a secret viewing of someone’s most private life…if you want to know what it feels like to do that in your work…then Seth Barrish is your guy. And moreover, what he teaches is simple, without ego.”
– Jennifer Landon, Three-time Emmy winner
UNCLE VANYA by Anton Chekhov
Upcoming Workshops
· Albuquerque, NM: May 2012
· New York City: tba
· Los Angeles, CA: tba
· Boston, MA: tba
How the Workshops are Structured
Saturday 10-1 pm: intro to barrow group acting technique, including changing the paradigm, lying exercise, silent improv
Saturday 2-5pm: a particular approach to script analysis—techniques for picking out the fundamental story structure and arriving at simple actionable things to do that tell the story and free the actor.
Sunday 10-1 pm: the barrow group tools (part 1)– detailed description of on-the-job tools designed to maximize spontaneity and improve your storytelling
Sunday 2-5 pm: the barrow group tools (part 2)—continued description of on-the-job tools designed to maximize spontaneity and improve your storytelling, plus tools geared towards classical text
* if you could come in with a monologue learned by heart, this would help facilitate the process– American contemporary realism (no more than 3 minutes in length)– if you like, you could also bring in a scene–contact us ahead of time we’ll hook you up with a scene partner
