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Sonya Cooke

PILLAR NUMBER FOUR: EMOTIONAL LIFE

The Fourth Pillar, Emotional Life, is the heart of the system. Like a heart, it is the most integral and elaborate of systems, requiring...

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Pillar Number Three : Meaning

The magical thing about human nature is that the same event can happen to two people and it will be received and responded to...

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PILLAR #2: CIRCUMSTANCE

BUILDING A STRUCTURE “If you build it, he will come.” ---Field of Dreams If Contact is the foundation, then Circumstances are the walls...

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CONTACT: THE FIRST PILLAR

My students' constant requests to read more about The Seven Pillars of Acting Technique, is now answered! Over the next several weeks, I...

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I DON'T KNOW...

"The purpose of Art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by answers." ---James Baldwin “I don’t know,” can be a powerful...

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HOW TO TALK TO A WALL

It's sad, but true that very often your working relationship with your scene partner is not productive, pleasant, creative, or enjoyable....

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WHERE IS THE LOVE?

My first acting coach, Jo Spiller, who began training me when I was sixteen, taught me many incredible lessons. I owe a large part of my...

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IMAGINARY CIRCUMSTANCES

We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;—...

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