The New Surry Theatre Performing Arts School

The Craft Of Acting:

This class will teach the craft of acting through mind occupation, improvisation, creative team scenes, and discussion. The methods of famous American acting teachers will be used and discussed to enable the student to begin to understand the actor's responsibilities to the playwright, the audience, fellow-actors and to themselves.

We will use improvisation for the actor to hone the skills of listening, sharing and creating a character with truth. These skills, when fully understood and mastered enable and empower the actor to convey the playwright's feelings with such power that they and the audience become one with the script.

The Craft of Acting meets Wednesdays: 5:30-7:15

Bill Raiten was born, raised and schooled in New York City, and has always been involved in theatre. A stand-up comic in the ‘50’s, a writer in the ‘60’s, a director, acting teacher and producer since then, he has always found his way to the theatre. He has directed, taught and performed in New York, Hollywood, and Maine in America as well as in the USSR and Canada, He has educated young people using his brand of theatre as a vehicle for them to find and like themselves. He has filmed an original short documentary with Maine Public Broadcasting that was aired in May 2001 and nominated for a New England regional Emmy Award and using his teaching methods at the Maine Youth Center with Seymour Papert of MIT they had the incarcerated youth write and edit their own film. He now teaches Acting in Maine and in Boston, Massachusetts and is the Artistic Director of the New Surry Theatre.