Acting: Tone of Voice
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Suicide Scene, actors can only respond to tone
of voice.
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Suicide scene photo
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Closing lines from CARNIval “and let me speak to
the yet unknowing world”
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The Lovely Bones, rain scene with daughter and
mother (book)
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Recreating my voice in suicide scene, making
Roberta my own.
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Rehearsals, used word for word script, and on
first night of run I stuck to script. Once we made the changes to the script,
it turned into adlibbing through my own voice, allowing it to fit better coming
from me. As a result, Roberta was received differently and better by the
audience. It became more “real” once I had my own phrasing and tone of voice as
opposed to sticking to the script.
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Stanislavski’s method acting
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bringing your own voice to the stage, having
your voice influencing characters voice (acting vs. being)
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Music
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Different tones and voices for different types
of music and different scenes
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Alexa singing the musicals in ANATOME vs. Me
singing the blues in CARNIval, each voice was fitting for the cause
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Insect: a voice with no face
Writing: Creating Voices for Others
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Creation of Doc, a character created through the
voices of others
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Shakespeare, alice in wonderland,
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Creating my own perspective through the initial
eyes of others
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PHOTO OF HAYLZ
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ANATOME, writing for ourselves rather than a created
character, such as Maggie
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process of character sketch with Joel, how once
the back story was created, Maggie’s voice had become my own
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Recreating my voice in suicide scene, making
Roberta my own.
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Connected to acting voice
Creating: Finding your Voice
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CARNIval vs. ANATOME, planning process and
finding my own voice (articulating ideas)
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Not marrying your ideas
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Getting your point across
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Finding different ways to sort your ideas rather
than explaining them
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Improved communication
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Collaborative efforts (class plays) vs.
individual efforts (directing project: atmospheres and PPP)
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CARNIval and ANATOME were both created through
multiple opinions and mindsets
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Pheonix became this huge production created by
one mind, but once the project was over
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Voicing societal taboos, such as molestation,
suicide, cannibalism as means of survival,
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Process of contemplating being offensive vs.
challenging perspectives.
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Giving the silent a voice on a stage (Theatre of
the Oppressed, Agusto Boal)
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Creating Maggie : “I created my own hell by
keeping the secrets I couldn’t dare to confess”
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1st person, but a spectators perspective
Absence of Voice
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Tosca Café vs. ANATOME, suicide scene
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no words in Tosca Café left the development
resting twice as strong on body language and facial expression vs the use of
100% dialogue in the suicide scene
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Frank Capra’s perspective on the introduction
and importance of dialogue into theatre and film
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Installation, Bali: was the creation of a
woman’s society
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The basis of the society was the silence, and
the lack of speech created and enhanced the atmosphere
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Entirety vs. moments
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Tosca Café vs. the ending of CARNIval with
Caroline on the hook, AFTER she stops screaming for help.
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The silence of her accepting her fate in that
moment spoke so loudly that words would’ve made it less powerful
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Tosca Café had to use music to make up for the
emotions that couldn’t be expressed in words due to the nature of the play
Breathe by Samuel Beckett
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“the silence is more important than the note
itself” The eighth note
