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Question: How can I improve my acting abilities!?
How can I let myself feel more onstage!? How can I learn to become more vulnerable to a character and take my acting to a new level!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Like suggested above - after you done your "actors homework" and script analysis, you should already map out the entire time line of the character from, to, and outside of the script!.

Memorize all your lines - and go through many, many rehearsals!. So all the blocking and lines became part of your muscle memory!.

In a scene, REALLY listen to what your scene partner is saying!. Acting, is Reacting!. If you are too focus on yourself, then you will get in your own way!.

Before the production starts, you should give you a short period of time, to prepare yourself!. Re-live the character's life before the scene starts!.

Be committed to your role!.
Be truthful to your character!.
Be truthful to the scene!.

*** Note to Theatre Doc ***

I think everyone is entitled to our opinion and share our experiences!. You can agree or disagree!. But I would perfer you not to degrade people who are here to help, by calling them "full of Acting Junk!." You can easily leave that part out and write your answer directly in responding to the question!.

You have to understand!.!.!. We all came from different backgrounds and have different level of success!. We have all trained differently and took on different courses in reaching our goal in the acting business!.

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jonathon and wayne are full of acting junk, you become more effective, not by analyses and study,which actors do not need, but by reacting fully and without inhibition!. Read Acting for the Camera by Tony Barr, the best acting book for stage and screen!. And then get deeper into truthful, vulnerability by reading Harold Guskin's How to Stop Acting!. Today's effective actors do not act, they react!. Your other answerers want you to act!. Everything you need is in the script, trust it!. As I say in my free book, The Tao of Acting, quoting Lao Tse, the founder of Taoism, "It is the way of the Tao to act without acting!." Exactly what a free and natural actor does!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

best way to do that is to learn the art of method acting please keep in mind that if your family has a history of mental illness you want to talk to your doctor first!. the only reason why I say that is if you happen to hit a nerve it could tigger certain things in your own psyche!. this is one of the things they attribute to marilyn monroe's death when she started learning the art of method acting!.

i am not being funny this is actually a serious reply since you asked Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well;; get comftorable in front of a croud and open up your heart!.
Try singing your words you act, then start to get deep into rehearsing by saying the words and remember them very well!.
I go onstage all the time;; and i never get nervous;;
You have to gt comftorable, and share your life in the words!. Live like it's you! You don't want to be like I'm the best!, NO! Cause that is not what a good actor is!. Sorry!. You have to be honest, modest, and humble!. And always respect everyone as equal and don;t think you are better than anyone else!. And don't be a director's pet;; the rest of the crew will hate you and start rumors and no one will worship you!.
(: That's they way my brain thinks!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Know the text, know the subtext of the show!. Build a back story for your character!. Whether real or imaginary!. Use thoughts and the feeling in your pass to bring out the emotion you want!.

Know the text backward and forwards!. ONce you get the lines down you will be able to free your mind to really work the character!.

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go a a acting school if yoy can't join a clun if you can't get into plays if you can\t play some big pranks of REALLY GOOD friends so the won\t sue you lol jokes!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

not care what people think!.Www@QuestionHome@Com