Creating Comedy from the Inside Out:
A New Playshop=AE & SHOWCASE for actors and writers
with The Cohen Brothers (Certified Chekhov Teachers)
Join us for an exciting cutting-edge laboratory of Michael Chekhov
acting technique. Part I- The process: 8 intensive Playshops=AE
exploring Michael Chekhov's core elements and their practical
application to innovative characters and scene building. Part II-The
Showcase: Actors and writers utilize this creative process to develop
new play material and work toward a showcase performance.
(8-week program. Monday evenings 8-10 p.m.) - (Staring May 21st, 2007)
Where: Playshops=AE meet weekly at The Actors Movement Studio in New
York City. (302 West 37th street, between 8-9 avenues.)
Playshop Fees: $295 to be paid before the first session. Space is
limited to 12 actors and returning MCP participants are given
priority, so, sign up as soon as possible.
Referrals: Recommendations and referrals are available by request.
For more information, please call David H. Cohen at 914-850-3226 or
email improv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cohen brothers are members of the Michael Chekhov Association
(MICHA) and have been working with the Chekhov technique for over 15
years with master teachers from around the world. The have both
received teacher certification from MICHA. David and Bryan founded The
Michael Chekhov Project in 2002. They produce original plays and
regularly offer workshops for actors and improvisers in New York City.
David H. Cohen is a teacher in the Theatre Departments for the State
University of New York (Middletown and New Paltz) and has been the
Artistic Director of The Studio Upstairs Theatre Repertory and NYC's
Mission: Improv-able since 1989. He has been directing in and around
NYC for over 20 years.
Bryan L. Cohen is an actor and improviser in New York City and is also
a member of The Studio Upstairs Theatre Repertory and has performed
with NYC's Mission: Improv-able since 1995.
Comedy Playshop=AE includes:
=B7 Imaginary Centers
=B7 Creating new and original characters (Imaginary Body)
=B7 Creative Imagination and Impulse
=B7 Atmospheres-Objective and Subjective
=B7 Transformation
=B7 Inner Movement
=B7 Radiating and Receiving
=B7 Psychological Gesture and Objective
=B7 Finding and playing Objective
=B7 Expanding and Contracting
=B7 Using Inner Images
=B7 Creating character
=B7 Qualities of Movement
=B7 Inner and Outer Tempo
=B7 Inner and Outer Movement-The Psycho-Physical link
=B7 Staccato and Legato
=B7 The Four Brothers (Ease, Beauty, Entirety and Form)
=B7 Exploring text through movement
=B7 Imaginary Voice
Why the Chekhov technique?
Russians know Michael Chekhov as a national treasure-one of the
greatest actors of the 21st century. It's no coincidence that many of
his American students have become OUR national treasures (Gregory
Peck, Yul Brenner, Marilyn Monroe and Anthony Quinn, to name a few.)
Michael Chekhov acting technique inspires the actor's creative
imagination through images, centers, imaginary body, psychological
gesture and inner movement. MCP workshops will help the actor
understand his work and its application to objective, character and
text.
Imagine it! See it! Be it!
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