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The Naked Stage
Internship date
Semaine 2 : 24 au 28 Juillet
Level
EXPLORATION
Price
580€
About the internship
Discover the joys of using your full acting prowess in this challenging format. If you enjoy improvising full-length stories, you’ll love discovering The Naked Stage!
This intensive will focus on the acclaimed Improv Playhouse of San Francisco format "The Naked Stage", in which the stories take place in a single setting/location, in traditional stage-play style. The improvisers play one character each, and there are no built-in time jumps, transitions or scene breaks .
All the actors have is the bare stage, a simple suggestion from the audience, and each other. "The Naked Stage" is hugely popular in San Francisco, across the USA, as well as internationally .
"The Naked Stage" combines San Francisco’s tradition of narrative longform improvisation with the demands and surprises of traditional theater. In a sense, the actors are “trapped” on stage with only each other. Without the usual exit options (lights, time and location jumps, and other scene-enders), they are left to fully confront the characters and situations which they have created.
This format is endlessly challenging, and gives improvisers the opportunity to explore many skills:
understanding the difference between conflict and energy
slowing down and connecting in the moment
taking your time with specific space object activities
feeling the kinetic push/pull of entrances and exits
being fully in character throughout the story
commitment to being “in” the location
engaging in realistic overlapping dialogue
the power of silence
monologues
Who who trains?
Tim Orr
Tim has improvised since 1988 with many San Francisco and international groups, including BATS Improv, True Fiction Magazine, Awkward Dinner Party, and with the acclaimed troupe 3 For All. In 2009, he founded Improv Playhouse of San Francisco. Since 2015, he has toured Europe with Inbal Lori from Berlin performing their duo show Click.
Tim has also appeared in numerous plays in the San Francisco Bay Area, and received critical acclaim for his leading roles in the improvised feature films, Suckerfish and Security. With Stephen Kearin, Tim co-wrote, and originated the role of Dirk Manly in, An Evening with Dirk & Blaine.
Nationally, Tim has performed and taught improvisation at the American Conservatory Theatre, BATS Improv, Stanford University, and many other venues (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Austin, Louisville, Atlanta, etc.).
Internationally, he has performed and taught at numerous festivals and/or an invited guest artist in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Beijing, Beirut, Belgium, Berlin, Bucharest, Dubai, Hamburg, Helsinki, Lisbon, London, Lyon, Mallorca, Oslo, Paris, Saudi Arabia, Shanghai, Stockholm, Tel Aviv and more.
Tim has consulted with numerous groups both nationally and internationally in their formation of improvisation groups and also the development of new improvisation formats.
