Happy Saturday, friends. Welcome to EA’s Rehearsal Playground. Each week we’ll celebrate our Mainstage material and capture graveyard echoes emanating from EA’s Spoon River.
Paid members have an ALL NEW Weekly Character Challenge + April’s Monthly Mainstage Rehearsal Project waiting below!
Graveyard Echoes
The Spoon River Anthology (Edgar Lee Masters)
Indignation Jones
You would not believe, would you
That I came from good Welsh stock?
That I was purer blooded than the white trash here?
And of more direct lineage than the
New Englanders And Virginians of Spoon River?
You would not believe that I had been to school
And read some books.
You saw me only as a run-down man
With matted hair and beard
And ragged clothes.
Sometimes a man’s life turns into a cancer
From being bruised and continually bruised,
And swells into a purplish mass
Like growths on stalks of corn.
Here was I, a carpenter, mired in a bog of life
Into which I walked, thinking it was a meadow,
With a slattern for a wife, and poor Minerva, my daughter,
Whom you tormented and drove to death.
So I crept, crept, like a snail through the days
Of my life.
No more you hear my footsteps in the morning,
Resounding on the hollow sidewalk
Going to the grocery store for a little corn meal
And a nickel’s worth of bacon.
Ready to right the endured wrongs of Indignation Jones?
Cinema Elysium Presents
The Green Door (2017)
Directed by: Pratik Mahant
Run Time: 13 minutes
Weekly Character Challenges
How It Works
The first three Saturdays of each month deliver weekly character rehearsal challenges straight to your inbox. Something dynamic, something experimental, something transformational.
Something to push the boundaries of truth in character.
The last Saturday of the month features a live video rehearsal (also later available on-demand) where we … well, we go a little nuts. We set free our solo work in exciting, experimental ways - evolving, enhancing, and challenging our work.
March - July: EA’s Spoon River
August - November: Anton Chekhov’s Plays
Monthly Mainstage Rehearsal Project
How It Works
On the first Saturday of the month, our MainStage rehearsal project gets posted exclusively for members to play with all month long. Your posted material always receives feedback taking your creative work further.
Each project builds out an array of rehearsal tools, applying them to work you’ll remember forever. The stuff that makes acting worth investing in. Worth believing in.
The monthly projects are tailored to move at your pace - and are available anytime you’d like to revisit them. The work is timeless. Apply your discoveries to any new character, any new world that finds you in your training and professional life.
March - May: O. Henry
June - August: Oz
September - November: Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale
It’s about your creative potential taking you where no one has gone before. Ready to roar?
Getting Started.
Discover + Choose a Spoon River Character (click here).
Email me your selection (click here) and I’ll reply confirming your choice.
Game On! Begin investing in your exclusive character with weekly character challenges + receive feedback to your work on Discord.
ALL NEW: Weekly Character Challenge
What is an Etude?
Knowing comes from experience.
From having been there.
When you’ve sat on the edge of the pier and you’re asked what it was like … you can speak from the contours, the subtleties, the harmonies of the experience.
There isn’t a Daily Body urge to describe it “right.”
You simply get to speak from what you know.
Etudes are a decision, a mentality, to spend time completely in character. Whatever the world around you tastes like, surprises you with - you are “all-in.”
This month, we’re going to apply the power of the Etude to our growing development of your Spoon River character.
Up next, The Meal Etude.
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