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Rough Draft Style Notes on Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing

June 7, 2020 by Tony Beeman

CHARACTER CHOICES Most Characters Are Direct And Opinionated: Most characters state their opinions, outlooks and biases openly and loudly. Mookie's ...

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Moving About The Stage With Style

January 20, 2020 by Tony Beeman

I always start my styles classes with a reminder that we are always improvising in a style. Both individually and as a group. Most Western ...

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Narrative/Plot/Story: An Example

November 25, 2019 by Tony Beeman

In Part I, we defined narrative, plot and story. Let's explore these in an example. Allow me to tell you a story: Tuyen saw Jackie on the ...

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Narrative/Plot/Story: The Basics

November 25, 2019 by Tony Beeman

In my Big List of Questions for style research, there is an entire section on plot, narrative, and story. As humans, we have an innate and natural ...

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Narrative/Plot/Story: Applying It To Improvisation

November 25, 2019 by Tony Beeman

In Part I, we defined Narrative, Plot and Story. In Part II, we explored the ways that an audience builds that story while experiencing that ...

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Styles Research: A Big List of Questions

November 18, 2019 by Tony Beeman

When I direct a show in a style or genre, I find it’s really important to develop a strong sense of WHY. For example, knowing that both film and time ...

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Fifteen Years Of Audience Suggested Movie Genres

November 11, 2019 by Tony Beeman

An Audience

Yesterday, I posted playwrights which I've gotten over the last fifteen years. Today, I have a list of movie genres I've gotten from an audience ...

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20+ Years of Audience Suggested Playwrights

November 10, 2019 by Tony Beeman

An Audience

Update: As of 2023, I now have about twenty years worth of suggested playwrights, and have broken out the musical lyricists and composters into their ...

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Why Study Genre and Style?

November 9, 2019 by Tony Beeman

Unexpected Production's Campfire

Do styles put you in your head? Or do they feel like too much icing and not enough cake? Outside of performing in genre or style: Do you sometimes ...

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An #InternationalWomensDay In The Life Of My Partner

March 8, 2017 by Tony Beeman Leave a Comment

Its #InternationalWomensDay, so I'm going to talk about what happens when @AdmiralAsthma and I do the same job, since we both direct improvised plays, ...

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