Monthly Archives: April 2019

Apr 17

Acting Essentials Workshop

By Richard Sarell | Acting Classes & Workshops

Acting Essentials

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Wednesday 17 April - 19 June

10 weeks

7.00pm to 9.30pm

Richard Sarell
Kyahl Anderson

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OVER FORTY YEARS RICHARD SARELL HAS DIRECTED TOP RATING, AWARD WINNING TV SHOWS. HE NOW COACHES WORLD CLASS ACTORS WITH HIS SIMPLE AND UNIQUE PROCESS.

Perfect for beginners - Essential for experienced actors
email contact@rehearsalroom.com or ring +61 407 226 620 for more information  
THESE UNIQUE PROFESSIONAL SKILLS ARE NOW AVAILABLE WORLD WIDE.


The Rehearsal Room process is ever expanding. It continually discovers exciting new add-ons that deliver greater flexibility and understanding.  

The internet has made this unique Australian technique available to you - no matter where you are in the world. 

CONGRATULATIONS!!  You have discovered the acting education you have been seeking all your life but never found.

As a result, you have found the tools to start your acting career here - or advance your established career and book more gigs.

FREE DOWNLOAD:
Avoid falling into the trap that ensnares between 70% - 95% of actors on their first run in the audition room, despite being well prepared.

Casting directors reveal that actors regularly make this mistake without even knowing that they have done so. Here is your chance to remedy a major flaw in actor training.
DOWN LOAD HERE

HOW TO SUCCEED WHERE 70% OF ACTORS FAIL IN AUDITIONS
  • 11 powerful new acting techniques that make your performance shine
  • banish your acting fears and boost your confidence
  • easy to understand theory
  • learn quickly with modern psychology based teaching techniques 
  • use these skills in your next audition in no time at all

Clearly explained acting processes that are easy to understand and quick to apply.

Logical techniques you will use with confidence. 

Gain deep understanding of how they work, why they work and what outcome they produce.

Fix the problems and fill the gaps other acting processes have left you to deal with.

"ACTING REVOLUTION"  COMING SOON on Amazon.  

WHAT MAKES THIS A REVOLUTION?
The Rehearsal Room process will turn what you know about acting upside down.   It will challenge your understanding, fixing your problems and filling in the gaps. Create and modify characters in seconds. Deliver powerful stories through exciting performances.

Auditions made simple. Understand the process.
Know how to OWN YOUR AUDITION!

AKINA EDMONDS LANDS KEY ROLE IN 'HAMILTON'
Why?  Because, in her audition, she delivered.
Akina Edmonds was such a standout choice she was amongst the first to be cast.  
"What's really exciting, and confronting, is that we're asked to bring our own version - truly bring our own version" to the audition she told Vogue magazine.  The version of 'Satisfied' Akina offered nailed it!

"I wanted to look at it like I would for any scene, which is as a conversation," she told Vogue reporter Hannah-Rose Yee. "This is just another conversation."

Understanding 'conversation' is how Akina nailed her audition!

This revolutionary approach to acting - takes you from reading the script, to preparing the audition and the final performance.

This is a new, unique and powerful tool.

TURN YOUR ACTING TALENT INTO A SKILL.
LEARN A PROCESS THAT IS PRECISE, PRACTICAL and PROFESSIONAL.


If you are an actor who has a problem with nerves or stress this is the course for you?
Nerves are mostly generated by uncertainty.  
There is no longer anything to be nervous about ...
            when you know what you are doing,
                        why you are doing it,
                                    how you will do it

                                               and
                                                      that it will work.

DON'T LEAVE YOUR ACTING CHOICES TO CHANCE!

Crispian Belfrage - London based actor

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I have completed 14 years of training including 3 years at L.A.M.D.A. in London, 2 years in Stella Adler technique in Los Angeles, and 1 year with Ivanna Chubbuck, plus much more.  But after 12 months online at The Rehearsal Room I am booking great roles in high end projects, through top casting agents.
I understand it. It is simple and it works.


Crispian Belfrage Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney), Life Upside Down, B.R.I.

THE REHEARSAL ROOM IS DIFFERENT
Creative, spontaneous, audience captivating performances result from this unique process.

A production of Shelagh Stephenson's "The Memory of Water" wowed audiences in Melbourne in 2017 with a different performance every night. What other acting process can do that?

It is the clarity and precision of this process that delivers such creative freedom for the actors.

Traditional processes are vague, evocative, confusing and teach acting half-truths. This confusion is detrimental to an actors emotional and professional well being.

The Rehearsal Room guarantees all confusion or doubt will be eliminated. It offers a clear and precise, step-by-step process that YOU will understand.

Wendy Alberni - actor, singer

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I used to be standing in the wings bathed in sweat and visibly shaking.  Now when I'm waiting for my entrance cue all those nerves have gone away.  I am too busy focusing on my preparation routine to think about whether I am nervous or not. Your process has removed all that stress.  So much fun.


Wendy Alberni actor, singer


TERTIARY COURSES DISAPPOINT
Three year university courses can be a waste of time for many actors.
Actors often emerge from university degree courses confused and NOT ABLE TO CONFIDENTLY AUDITION.

Free Report exploring the "10 Reasons Why University Trained Actors Don't Get Hired"


NOW THESE SESSIONS ARE ONLINE  it means actors from anywhere in the world can join these Australian devised classes.
Working online has not changed the quality of these classes and neither has it changed how much you will learn from each session.

Actors from around Australia and the world including US, UK, Canada, India, Brazil, New Zealand and Japan have been benefitting from The Rehearsal Room process for the last 24 years

For more information ring +61 407 226620 and book a free one-on-one half-hour  session to sample these techniques.  Alternatively email contact@rehearsalroom.com

WHEN WE WERE WORKING IN A STUDIO THIS WAS HOW ACTORS RESPONDED TO THIS UNIQUE APPROACH TO ACTING PROCESS

A Complete Acting Process

Ann Truong -Romper Stomper, Strike Back, Hard Target 2, Hunters, Schapelle, Neighbours

"Something clicks in every class. It’s an amazing feeling - knowing that you are going to learn something profound but you are yet to have any idea of what that is until it happens. I return each week excited knowing that I am about to experience this." 



What will be covered in this course?

1) Casting Directors want you to be able to change

Actors with university degree courses (like NIDA) are taught to find the perfect performance for a scene.  But in the professional audition room Casting Directors know there isn't one perfect version of a scene.  Casting Directors know there are many options for a scene and the professional actor who can see lots of possibilities is an actor who can take direction.

2) Surprise the Casting Director with your skill

An actor who creates characters that experience real 'moments of surprise' stands out in the audition room and on the set. All the great actors play beautiful moments of surprise. Learn techniques for playing surprises that are ONLY TAUGHT HERE. Moments of surprise are the key to being real in performance.

3) Engage an audience and you will engage a Director

Directors want to hire actors who can engage an audience with the comedy or the drama.  If you can totally engage an audience with your performance, the professionals who want to hire you will instantly recognize your skills.

4) Gain a modern understanding of Stanislavski techniques

This is a no bullshit approach to traditional theories. It cuts through the complexities of other acting processes and explains them in a simple common sense language. You will be empowered by your new understanding of Stanislavski process. This is an acting process that makes sense.

5) Understand story so you can break a scene down quickly

Instead of questioning if you actually understand the story of a scene. Learn how to break down story effortlessly every time.

6) Remove confusions and clearly measure your success

Instead of walking out of an audition feeling flat and confused. Learn how to make every audition count. Acquire skills that enable you to measure your success.


THIS IS FOR YOU IF...

  • You are looking for a place to start building professional acting techniques
  • The training you received at a reputable school or university confused
  • When the teaching you have experienced kind of makes sense but isn’t clear about what you have to do
  • A feeling that acting and life can be simpler has you looking for more
  • You sense your acting teacher is just directing you how to do a scene not teaching you how to act

IF YOU DON’T HAVE THESE SKILLS …

  • You will make slow progress trying to find a system that works for you
  • Active realistic listening will probably elude you
  • Flexibility to take direction will be difficult
  • Basic acting skills, like how to end scenes, will be confusing
  • You won’t know how to put yourself in charge of your career
  • An acting process that grows with you and for you won't be a fun part of your life

ABOUT RICHARD...

Richard first discovered the core values of this technique when he was directing drama at the ABC in Melbourne in 1984. In an actor/director workshop run by the marvelous teacher Murray Hutchinson a simple, clear and common sense approach to Constantine Stanislavski’s theories was explained. Richard was captivated by the wonderful practicality of this approach and immediately started exploring it. He also began using it as the foundation of his directing techniques.

After watching Richard direct an actor on the ABC series “Embassy”, experienced British actor Brian Marshall commented, “That was pure Stanislavski!!” Other actors began to notice the difference and soon some began asking Richard to teach them the techniques he was using. Those requests generated what has now become The Rehearsal Room acting school in Melbourne. Over thirty-two years those common sense concepts have continued to develop and evolve.

This is a practical, professional approach focused on delivering the performance outcomes that directors and casting directors are looking for. Unlike any other acting process before it, the main focus of this approach is on engaging and entertaining an audience. Actors who can do that are a sought after commodity. Richard loves teaching it. You will love learning it.


7pm Wednesday 17 April 2024
Learn skills you will use throughout your career. Learn to be real, to be versatile, to be a great listener and to be skilled in auditions. This workshop lays all the foundations for a professional acting career.



Apr 14

Online Acting Class – Creating Character

By Richard Sarell | Online Classes

Online Acting Class  "Creating a Character in 10 Seconds"

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Available now

Ten Tutorials in your own time

Richard Sarell

$39.50AUD
View the first Tutorial for FREE -

VIEW THE FIRST TUTORIAL FOR FREE

TEACH YOURSELF with these online classes. Use practical professional techniques in 10 video tutorials and 30+ exercises.  

By tutorial five you will be using these techniques in your next audition.

This is an acting revolution because it delivers a process that will fix all the problems created by the previous techniques you have learnt. If you feel that the processes you have been taught are too complicated - this is the technique for you. It works both for stage and for screen.

Brilliant new book to be released in April 2024

In an audition you have two tasks.
The first is to create the character.  The second is to deliver the story.  

This Online Acting Class gives you the tools to create a vast range of different characters quickly. That's what you need when auditioning. This course provides you with practical skills that are more efficient and more effective than anything you have done before.

An acting class that is perfect for the beginner actor and an exciting challenge for the experienced professional.  You will learn to create or change a character in 10 seconds - exactly what you need when auditioning.

It is an advanced approach to an online acting class that is clear, logical, easy to apply and you can instantly see results.

This is the 'DO IT YOURSELF' version of "Creating a Character in 10 Seconds".
THE GREAT THING ABOUT THIS COURSE IS THAT YOU CAN TEACH YOURSELF.
You get all the lessons, all the exercises and lots of clear guidance on how to measure your progress. It is amazing material. It is practical, professional and it works.

But, if you want one-on-one coaching then sign up for "Creating a Character in 10 Seconds - PREMIER".
If needed, you can upgrade to the "PREMIER" version at any time.


There are many exercises for you to build your skills

HOW THE ONLINE ACTING CLASS WORKS
There are
10 video tutorials for you.  Thirty exercises will build your skill plus quizzes to test your learning and many downloads with valuable information.

You can join the six actors who came together to test out these techniques for character creation. We recorded their journey of discovery to share with you. This is a new approach. Share the experience with the actors as they learn techniques that deliver in seconds a clear pathway to creating character.  You will learn with them.  And you can do the exercises, too. 

WHAT YOU GET!!!

Tutorial 1:
THE JOURNEY BEGINS

Tutorial 2:
THE SIMPLEST WAY TO CREATE
A CHARACTER

Tutorial 3:
HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER
IN TEN SECONDS

Tutorial 4:
HOW IT WORKS

An introduction to the principles, philosophies
and the successes of this process.

Understand the core ingredients of character. 
What makes a character tick is the key
to creating one - these are the core issues. 

A clear demonstration of how practical and effective
this process is.  Watch actors try it out for the first
time and see how amazed they are at the outcomes.

Explains this clear and ... Oh!! ... so SIMPLE approach. 
Heaps of fascinating information
plus 2 extra exercises in this class.

Six more tutorials include -
Tutorial 5: DROPPING IN YOUR 'NEED'; Tutorial 6: LISTENING TO RELATIONSHIP; Tutorial 7: KEEPING IT SIMPLE AND ACTIVE; Tutorial 8: TIPS AND TRICKS; Tutorial 9: THE HISTORY OF THIS APPROACH; Tutorial 10: GETTING IT ALL TOGETHER.

Sophia LightfootActor - Queensland

This is a really high quality course. Its brilliantly presented in a format that is practical, easily accessible, easy to follow and easy to understand and gets rapid results.

YOU WILL EXPERIENCE …

  1. the actor's journey of discovery
  2. the questions they asked
  3. the new levels of understanding they achieve

Learn these unique techniques that transform your choices into positive performance outcomes.   Your understanding of how to create character grows in the same way as the actors in the group.

Actors from face-to-face classes share their views

ACCELERATED LEARNING

Everyone wants to learn quickly.  No one wants to waste time.  You need a learning system that explains techniques clearly and that arouses your interest.  This process will excite you to explore more and expand your understandings.  It is an approach to acting and learning that engages your participation and stimulates your imagination.  It is a very effective skill builder.  

HOW YOU LEARN
The quickest way for the actor to learn is to be able to instantly view their own work.  Reviewing a video recordings is 10 times more effective than just being lectured by the teacher.  The Rehearsal Room tradition has always been to shoot an acting exercise in every class. In the online acting classes actors also record their work for assessment.  The actor can follow the detailed instructions to self-assess their video or submit their exercises for personal one-on-one assessment by a professional director.

Video assessment is the proven key to quickly increasing your skill.
If you want personal one-on-one assessment of your video exercises sign up for "Creating a Character in 10 Seconds PREMIER" for the personal coaching option.

GET ONE-ON-ONE FEEDBACK

In the ‘PREMIER’ format you will have ONE-ON-ONE coaching and feedback.  Just upload your recordings of your exercises for very personal assessment by professional director Richard Sarell.  

CREATING A CHARACTER IN TEN SECONDS

TEN fascinating video tutorials that explain this process in very practical detail. 

Do more than THIRTY clever exercises that make the techniques clear and train you how to apply them.

There is plenty of guidance about how to assess your achievements and measure your success.  Answer quizzes that expand your knowledge and test your understanding.

THIS IS THE DO IT YOURSELF KIT!

CREATING A CHARACTER IN TEN SECONDS 
'PREMIER'

Get ALL the video tutorials with ADDITIONAL EXERCISES. PLUS you submit the videos of your exercises for one-on-one expert assessment of your exercises. Personal feedback and video conferences specifically for you.  (You also get feedback on your written exercises).

And you receive a completion certificate to confirm you achievements.

GET PERSONAL ONE-ON-ONE COACHING 

'Premier' is only $416

HOW TO MEASURE YOUR PROGRESS

You can work on your own with this version and assess your own progress. All the exercises have suggestions as to how you can check whether you are achieving a successful outcome and whether you are making progress. Or you can choose to do the Premier version and upload the video of your exercises to get one-on-one feedback. Or you can start with this self-assess version and upgrade to the Premier version at any time.

I AM READY TO START A JOURNEY THAT WILL CHANGE MY VIEW OF ACTING FOR EVER

Ann TruongRomper Stomper, Hard Target 2, Hunters, Schapelle, Neighbours

"Something clicks in every class. It’s an amazing feeling - knowing that you are going to learn something profound but you are yet to have any idea of what that is until it happens. I return each week excited knowing that I am about to experience this." 



ONGOING UPDATES FOR YOU
Once you have purchased the "Creating a Character in 10 Seconds" class you will receive, free of charge, ALL the ongoing updates that are published for this class.  As you will see in Tutorial 9 The Rehearsal Room continually explores new ways of using these techniques.  This is a natural evolution of the mindset that actors acquire from studying this course material.  The explanations of this process are so clear and practical that actors use their new understandings to experiment with new possibilities.   Sometimes the new understanding they achieve is so practical and so exciting we will just HAVE TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT IT.

I STILL HAVE A QUESTION?

MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR A 15 MINUTE ONLINE CHAT WITH RICHARD.  He wants to answer your questions and make sure the course is the right fit for you.

What will be covered in this course?

1) Learn how to build a character effectively

Throughout the history of acting tools that create a character are complicated and vague. These new techniques will enable you to create a believable character quickly. Managing character choices efficiently is the key to being an effective TV actor. You can learn to do it in seconds.

2) Be able to change the character without affecting other content

Character is a separate entity that should be managed in its own right.  You will be able to make huge changes to character if your director or casting director is looking for something different without changing the character's role in the story.

3) Understand how to create a character that audiences like

Casting Directors and Directors know that actors who deliver engaging performances are hard to find. If you can totally engage an audience with your performance, the professionals who want to hire you will instantly recognize your skills.

4) Gain a modern understanding of Stanislavski techniques

This is a no bullshit approach to traditional theories. It cuts through the complexities of other acting processes and explains them in a simple common sense language. You will be empowered by your new understanding of Stanislavski process. This is an acting process that makes sense.

5) Try exercises that develop your expertise

Amazingly effective exercises will both build your skill and expand your understanding.  This is an inventive and productive approach to learning how to create a character.

THIS IS FOR YOU IF...

  • You are looking for a place to start building professional acting techniques
  • You have trained at a reputable school or university but have never been clear about what makes a character real
  • When the teaching you have experienced kind of makes sense but isn’t clear about what you have to do
  • You feel acting and life can be simpler
  • You sense your acting teacher is just directing you how to do a scene not teaching you how to act

IF YOU DON’T HAVE THESE SKILLS …

  • You will make slow progress trying to find a system that works for you
  • Active realistic listening will probably elude you
  • Flexibility to take direction will be difficult
  • You won’t have an acting process that grows with you and for you
Richard Sarell

ABOUT RICHARD...

Richard first discovered the core values of this technique when he was directing drama at the ABC in Melbourne in 1984. In an actor/director workshop run by the marvellous teacher Murray Hutchinson a simple, clear and common sense approach to Constantine Stanislavski’s theories was explained. Richard immediately began using these theories as the foundation of his directing techniques.


After watching Richard direct an actor on the ABC series “Embassy”, experienced British actor Brian Marshall commented, “That was pure Stanislavski!!” Other actors began to notice the difference and soon some began asking Richard to teach them the techniques he was using. Those requests generated what has now become The Rehearsal Room acting school in Melbourne. Over thirty-two years those common sense concepts have continued to develop and evolve.

Unlike any other acting process before it, the main focus of this approach is on engaging and entertaining an audience. Actors who can do that are a sought after commodity. Richard loves teaching it. You will love learning it.


IF YOU HAVE READ THIS FAR YOU MUST HAVE FOUND MANY THINGS THAT INTEREST YOU!!!

IF YOU HAVEN'T DECIDED TO SIGN UP AT THIS POINT THERE MUST BE A  QUESTION YOU DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER TO ...

DON'T HESITATE - EMAIL Richard@rehearsalroom.com AND ASK THAT QUESTION.
If you don't you will miss out on learning something important.    REMEMBER ... there are no silly questions.

For the actor delivering story is as important as creating a character and that will be our next online class

Learn skills you will use throughout your career. Learn to be real, to be versatile, to be a great listener and to be skilled in auditions. This workshop lays all the foundations for a professional acting career.

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