How Do You Use Spacework In Acting Scenes?
This article will explore the ways in which you can use Spacework to enhance your acting scenes. Explore the space. When you are rehearsing a play, take every advantage to see and explore the theatre you are going to be performing in as early on as possible. While the space will be different once the set is built in it, the feeling of the room is vital. Spacework is successful when you really know, in your body, the space you will be filling. Know your environment. Your play takes place somewhere… in a specific place. It does not take place on a stage. It takes place in a house in New England during Christmas, or on the streets of seventeenth century Italy, or in a New York City diner in the nineteen sixties. If you can, visit the real place. If you can’t, research it exhaustively. Consider if you are a stranger in this place, or is the setting of the play your home. That will greatly influence how you make every movement. The way a stranger knocks on a bedroom door is entirely diffe