CURRENT HOME & AWAY DIRECTOR SAM ATWELL IN AN ACTORS PRO WORKSHOP BLOCK OVER 4 INTENSIVE NIGHTS!
Grab one of these opportunities to work with current Home & Away director, Sam Atwell during his four short Pre Production breaks from this very popular Australian Television Series.

THE ERIC MORRIS PRO WORKSHOP BLOCKS
Tutored by success story ˆ Home & Away Actor turned Home & Away Director
SAM ATWELL
(Currently the resident Director and Actor on Home & Away)

BLOCK DATES ARE:-

Block 1: Mon 14th, Tues 15th, Wed 16th & Thurs 17th July 2008
OR
Block 2: Mon 21st, Tue 22nd, Wed 23rd & Thurs 24th July 2008
OR
Block 3: Mon 11th, Tue 12th, Wed 13th, & Thurs 14th August 2008
OR
Block 4: Mon 18th, Tues 19th, Wed 20th & Thurs 21st August 2008

From: 6.30pm to 9.30pm
Contact: Reka
Cost: $550 (Screenwise Members $495)

Eric Morris is one of the most exciting acting teachers in the history of American performance. Author of 5 best-selling books on acting, and having taught over 20,000 students worldwide (including some of Hollywood's biggest stars such as Jack Nicholson and Arnold Schwarzenegger), Eric Morris is Hollywood's most sought-after acting teachers & coach.

Eric Morris is a master acting teacher and an accomplished actor who founded his own theory of acting based on the works of Lee Strasberg and Martin Ritt. Morris is living with his wife in Los Angeles and teaches actors the Eric Morris System of Acting.

The Eric Morris System

Having published over 5 books in his theory, Eric’s method is derived partly from Lee Strasberg's Method Acting. However, Strasberg's Method focuses too much on craft, according to Eric, and not enough on the actor's instrument. Facing struggle in finding truth, Eric contemplated his theory while heading the Directors Unit at the Actor's Studio in Los Angeles. Eric's method recognizes the fact that actors have emotional blocks, tension, insecurities and other preventions of achieving a fundamental state of being, thus rendering the actor truly organic. In this sense, Eric stresses that acting is essentially living and being. There are 7 major obligations to material, according to Eric: 1) Time and Place, 2) Relationship, 3) Emotional Obligation, 4) Character Obligation, 5) Historic Obligation, 6) Thematic Obligation, 7) Directorial Obligation. After recognizing these 7 obligations, there are the choices the actor utilizes to render these emotions, and finally the approach to which the actors use these choices.

The Eric Morris System has received praise from such actors as Jack Nicholson and Johnny Depp.

'I found this course to be the best introduction to Morris technique I have experienced. Within a very short amount of time all of the core elements of this quite complicated method were explained and explored in understandable terms. Morris technique can be very confronting but this course was conducted within a very safe and nurturing environment which allowed the actors the creative and personal freedom to extend their skills and find new depths within the craft. I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in finding out about Morris Technique, or for people who like to maintain their skills in the method. You will always find something new.' Sophie Long