Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

PART I Playing Objectives

Chapter 1 Money in Your Pocket: Meisner, Objectives, and the First Six Lines

DENNIS SCHEBETTA

Chapter 2 Psychological Gesture: Michael Chekhov Exercises on Physicalizing the Objective

ANJALEE DESHPANDE HUTCHINSON

Chapter 3 Making Sport of Objectives: Teaching through Student-Developed Physical Competition

JOHN KAUFMANN

Chapter 4 Structured Improvised Scenes

TIMOTHY JOHNSON

Chapter 5 Scoring the Un-Scorable

MARIA PORTER

Chapter 6 Creating a Physical Score in a Snap: Using Social Media to Appeal to the Smartphone Generation

TOM PACIO

PART II Overcoming Obstacles

Chapter 7 Engaging Obstacles

KEVIN HOFFMANN

Chapter 8 Active Obstacle Image Scoring

DAVID HUGO

Chapter 9 Resistance

JANET HAYATSHAHI

Chapter 10 Returning the Dress: Demonstrating Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics

DAVIDA BLOOM

Chapter 11 Improvised Fantasies: Heightening Objectives and Obstacles in Scene Work

HILLARY HAFT BUCS

Chapter 12 Optimizing the Obstacle: Using Indicators of Csikszentmihalyi's Flow to Help Select, Test,

and Experience Stanislavski's Obstacles

FABIO POLANCO AND DIANE BONFIGLIO

PART III Identifying Tactics

Chapter 13 The Tag-tic that Works

LYNN DEBOECK

Chapter 14 Improvising Tactical Choices Based on Status

or "Who's Driving the Dramatic Action Bus?"

JEAN DOBIE GIEBEL

Chapter 15 Transformational Tactics: Engaging Students

in the Heroic Pursuit of Their Objective

KIM SHIVELY

Chapter 16 Hunter/Hunted: Experiential Learning and the

Actor's Craft

VALERIE CLAYMAN PYE

Chapter 17 Tactics and Action Drives: Stanislavski

Meets Laban

CONRAD ALEXANDROWICZ

Chapter 18 Stanislavski in the Voice Studio

DERIC MCNISH

Chapter 19 Stimulating Embodied Tactical Actions

LESLEY-ANN TIMLICK

Chapter 20 NRGs and the Nature of Action: The Lessac Tactic Circle

CAROLINE GOOD

Chapter 21 Relaying Action - from Breath to Text

AARON ALPERN AND REBECCA COVEY

Chapter 22 Using Improvisation to Identify Tactics

NATHAN STITH

Chapter 23 Activating the Actor with Game Theory: Using Gamification to Create Playable Tactics on Stage

JEANNE LEEP

AFTERWORD

Chapter 24 Recording Truth: The Camera in Acting Training

WELKER WHITE

CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES

CHAPTER ABSTRACTS

INDEX