The Actor's Tool-Box
Actors train for many years gathering a variety of techniques through acting classes, University or Conservatory programs in performing arts, and personal experience. Filling the ‘actor’s tool-box’ is an ongoing quest for actors as they strive to sharpen their skills and hone their craft. Acting requires a wide-range of abilities, including clarity of speech through proper vocal projection, dialects, and accents; emotional and physical expression; a creative imagination; an aptitude for interpretation, and assuming multiple characters using specific techniques such as mime, emulation, improvisation, and stage combat.
Method Acting
An actor may choose to learn aspects of acting by studying a particular method or acting technique. Schools vary in their approach and actors select methods best suited to them. There is, however, one method that remains popular with a substantial following in North America called Method acting, which was originally created by Konstantin Stanislavski of Russia. In North America, some of the popular disciples of the Method technique include Lee Strasberg (Actors Studio), Sanford Meisner (Neighborhood Playhouse and Sanford Meisner Studio), and Uta Hagen (HB Studio), and Stella Adler (Stella Adler Studio of Acting).
Actors train for many years gathering a variety of techniques through acting classes, University or Conservatory programs in performing arts, and personal experience. Filling the ‘actor’s tool-box’ is an ongoing quest for actors as they strive to sharpen their skills and hone their craft. Acting requires a wide-range of abilities, including clarity of speech through proper vocal projection, dialects, and accents; emotional and physical expression; a creative imagination; an aptitude for interpretation, and assuming multiple characters using specific techniques such as mime, emulation, improvisation, and stage combat.
Method Acting
An actor may choose to learn aspects of acting by studying a particular method or acting technique. Schools vary in their approach and actors select methods best suited to them. There is, however, one method that remains popular with a substantial following in North America called Method acting, which was originally created by Konstantin Stanislavski of Russia. In North America, some of the popular disciples of the Method technique include Lee Strasberg (Actors Studio), Sanford Meisner (Neighborhood Playhouse and Sanford Meisner Studio), and Uta Hagen (HB Studio), and Stella Adler (Stella Adler Studio of Acting).
