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Acting: The First Six Lessons (Bridges)

[This show] should be seen twice, once to enjoy the story and again to learn the lessons that work equally well in life as on stage... Rare and wonderful.

Examiner.com

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 75 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, 1930s
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
Beau Bridges, winner of three Emmys, two Golden Globes, and a Grammy Award teams up with his daughter, actress Emily Bridges, to create this stage version of Richard Boleslavsky’s 1933 narrative about a dedicated acting teacher who, while instructing a young actress in her craft, gives her valuable lessons for living as well. 

Over the course of ten scenes, the action moves from the teacher’s studio to a small theater to a film set to Central park and back, and finally, to a moving denouement atop the Empire State Building in 1936.
REVIEWS:

[This play] is a beautifully written and acted gem for the theatre community and world at large... A very stimulating and uniquely entertaining evening of theatre not to be missed!

Don Grigware Grigware Talks Theatre

For actors, students of acting and aficionados of the art and craft of theatre the Bridges bring Boleslavsky’s First Six Lessons to life... The audience is swept away.

Michael Sheehan On Stage LA

This is an enlightening, heart touching and soul searching production that holds its audience captive throughout.

Pat Taylor The Toloucan Times

You wouldn’t think you could make a theater piece out of a textbook on acting, but Beau Bridges and his daughter Emily have done it - beautifully.

Cynthia Citron Examiner.com

Whether you are a student of acting, or simply a lover of good theater, Acting: The First Six Lessons has many tips to offer and many life lessons to bestow... [It is] an enthralling and edifying hour and a half of theatre... a big, big hit!

Steven Stanley Stage Scene LA
Premiere Production: Acting: The First Six Lessons by Emily Bridges and Beau Bridges premiered on April 9, 2010 at Theatre West in Los Angeles. It was produced by John Gallogly and Emily Bridges and directed by Charlie Mount.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 1F
  • Casting Notes: The male actor who plays The Teacher also plays the part of a Film Director and a Casting Director.  The female actor who plays The Creature also plays The Aunt.  The genders are flexible, and may be changed in casting.

  • THE TEACHER - A cantankerous, once renowned acting teacher reluctantly finds himself taking on a new acting student, not knowing that the lessons he offers her will also have a profound effect in his own life.

  • THE CREATURE - At 18, she is a bright-eyed, naive, yet fearless girl who desperately wants to become an actress. From her first challenging lesson, she ages gracefully into a thoughtful woman who treasures her playfully combative relationship with her beloved teacher.

  • FILM DIRECTOR - He is on a time crunch and losing patience with his young ingenue. Time is money!

  • CASTING DIRECTOR - He has been conducting auditions all day and his composure wears thin when the ambitious Creature bursts in late.

  • THE AUNT - A bellicose older woman, she loves her neice, The Creature, and is aware of her talent, but is skeptical of The Teacher's lessons, and is eager to set him straight.

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    Beau Bridges, winner of three Emmys, two Golden Globes, and a Grammy Award teams up with his daughter, actress Emily Bridges, to create this stage version of Richard Boleslavsky’s 1933 narrative about a dedicated acting teacher who, while instructing a young actress in her craft, gives her valuable lessons for living as well. Over the course of ten scenes, the action moves from the teacher’s studio to a small theater to a film set to Central park and back, and finally, to a moving denouement atop the Empire State Building in 1936.

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