fandomhigh | Basic Acting, Fourth Period, Tuesday

Daisy's classroom was set up with several couches arranged in a semi-circle facing a podium and a cleared area for staging any scenes. A comfortable looking leather chair was placed to one side of the cleared area -- this was Daisy's director's chair. Those folding things were for weenies. She sat here as the students entered, sipping a glass of carrot juice.

When everyone had gathered, she got started. "Hi. I'm Daisy Adair and this is Basic Acting. If you're in the wrong room, out with it now, or just decide to be an actor, already. First thing's first, role call. Please state your full name, including any middle name or nickname, then tell us your favorite actor or actress, and why you chose this class."

She went on to pass out the syllabus. "As you can see, we'll have a full period's worth of activity every week, so please try to be on time. If you can't make it to class, it's up to you to contact me or another student and find out what you missed. If you miss more than one class, you'd better have a really good reason. For the monologue and scene requirements, I'll be bringing texts in to each class and have them available in my office, which will be open on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. You're welcome to look around on your own for material, as well, as long as you let me know where you're getting it. Hell, even write it yourself. Again, just let me know."

"We'll start off easy for our first class. What is acting? Why do we act? Is it just on stage, or do we do it elsewhere? And I don't mean just movies. Thoughts? Questions? Concerns?"

[ooc: the links provided in Daisy's first office hours will be posted in her profile at my first opportunity. They're weblinks of monologues and scenes, but like Daisy said, feel free to write or find your own, or handwave it if you need to. I'd love to see what you can find, though.]

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Full name, including middle, and any nickname, favorite actor or actress, why you're in the class.

I promise, after this the sign in thread will be basic.

To be or--wait, that isn't the question. . . .

What is acting? Why do we act? Why do we ask why do we act?

Mysteries abound.

Any questions for your teacher? Any offers of TA-ing so we can have it all set up ICly as well as OOCly? Concerns?

Yar!

Agnes Nitt, aka Perdita X Dream aka Perdita X Nitt

No favorite.

Because sometimes, you need to be able to lie and look completely convincing.

"We definitely do it more places than on the stage," Agnes said. "We're always acting, putting up appearances and pretending we're other people or feeling differently than we really are."

She might have been remembering an old woman and a cup of something that only pretended to be tea.

"That's good, Agnes. But why do we do that?"

"To get what we want."

Briar Moss. No favorite. Because acting can help you lie better.

"Acting is pretending to be someone we're not so basically it's something everyone does on a daily basis."

"My, aren't we a cynical bunch. But why do we have plays? If we're all going around acting all the time, anyway?"

"But then why do we have plays? Are those to get what we want, as well?"

"I've never seen a play." Briar commented. "But plays are supposed to be entertaining."

Skank Zero Hopeless-Savage. Nicknames include Skankabelle, Zee, Zed, Wee Skanky Zero, Lavender.

Favorite actor: Johnny Depp

I'm planning a career in film.

"Yes. The actors still want a reaction or the attention or both."

Jaded? The Ankh-Morpork Opera and Granny Weatherwax will do that to a person.

"Acting is pretending to be something you're not. You can do it in the real world to get something you want or fool someone, or you can do it in a fake world--plays and film and stuff--and that's entertainment. Or it's s'poseta teach you about the human condition or sumfin," Zero added as an afterthought.

Daisy raised an eyebrow. "You almost sound like a pro, honey,"

"Why is it entertaining to watch someone pretend to be someone else? Or, for that matter, how does doing so teach us about the human condition?"

"Because it's not our lives, so we don't have to really worry about it and that's freeing? And squalled if I know."

"How is that freeing?"

"Because the outcome doesn't affect us, not really."

Agnes shrugged. "I was in opera, and I'm a witch, so I guess I am almost a pro."

"Then why should we bother with it? If it doesn't affect us. What do we get out of seeing other people's problems, when usually we'd prefer if people just minded their own business and didn't get us involved?"

"Oh yeah? Which opera?"

"The Ankh-Morpork Opera."

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