Acting Technique:
The objective is to be exciting and dynamic while discovering the character's real experience.
- Revolutionary relaxation technique
- Sense memory - the complete cycle
- Affective memory
- Imagined experience
- Finding the level of reality
- The seven-step prep
- Character transformation
- Finding the through-line
- Developing stage and screen presence
- Power, intensity and confidence
- The creative state-of-being
- Working with the director
Robert Castle has integrated theatrical materials and acting techniques from around the world including the practices and theories of Strasberg and Stanislavski.
The workshop is designed to:
1). Eradicate stereotypes about The Method.
2). Give the actor the tools to be inspired every time s/he works.
3). Familiarize the actor with techniques such as relaxation, sense memory, substitution/ transformation and imagined experience.
Robert Castle, having studied under the tutelage of Lee Strasberg himself, is an actor and director. He is a highly sought-after acting coach at the renowned Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City, and has performed in or directed hundreds of plays, films and videos in New York and Los Angeles. He has more than twenty years of professional collaboration with such modern luminaries as Charles Durning, Brooke Shields, Jane Fonda, Angie Dickenson, Jeannie Berlin, George Segal, Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer and Jeff Goldblum.
Throughout the ten-day training, Mr. Castle will address the various myths about the Method. He will also use his meticulous training style in layering each actor's prior training (no matter what style) onto the Method technique, engaging the actor in a process leading to a total connection to the character, the circumstances and the dilemma. The actor then arrives at the point where the ego and self-consciousness evaporate, the imagination is freed, and the character is fully embodied.
The workshop will be an intimate setting of about 14 people and it is designed for each actor to receive constant and concentrated attention. It is Robert's goal to take each actor from where s/he is and to nurture them and provide them with tools to foster growth. He is meticulous in his training, as well as in pointing out each actor's strong points and areas that need work. Further, he offers practical tools to help the actor strengthen those weak areas as s/he prepares to work.
Robert is quoted in saying "When we have trained to the point where the character's behavior becomes spontaneous and unconscious, we can become more creative than we ever thought possible, because the imaginative impulse will be unconscious and experiential rather than merely mental. At this point the actor's performance can take flight." It is tapping into the actor's hidden world of creativity and imaginative impulse that leads the actor to the pinnacle of the Method technique: to be highly inspired in every performance.
During the workshop, the actor will be engrossed in an intense training environment over the course of ten days. Mr. Castle will engage the actor in a very detailed relaxation technique, which he developed, to strengthen the actor's ability to achieve creative states of being: mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually, that can be applied in different ways to both film and stage acting.
USA and Canada Workshops
IT New York offers special intensive ten day, five day and two day weekend workshops in the United States and Canada. The work focuses on Stanislavski and Strasberg-based exercises, including overall sensations, personal objects, sense memory, imagined experience, private moments, relaxation technique and many others. Five and ten day workshops include scene and/or monologue study.
