No Acting Please: A Revolutionary Approach to Acting and Living PDF

Co-authored by Joan Hotchkis, this is Eric Morris's first book The emphasis here is on first establishing a being state, eliminating the obstacles--such as tension, the actor's archenemy--and elevating the actor's awareness. As the title indicates, many of the techniques herein address the actor's need to avoid falling into the traps of concept and presentational acting. There is a complete chapter on sense memory--what it is, and how to practice it and apply it as an acting tool. There are over one hundred exercises, techniques and approaches for the actor to use in order to unblock his instrument, with various sections from Joan's personal journals.

Chapter List (189 chapters):

Chapter 1: Cover
Chapter 2: Title
Chapter 3: Copyright
Chapter 4: Acknowledgments
Chapter 5: Foreword
Chapter 6: Contents
Chapter 7: 1. Being
Chapter 8: ON BEING
Chapter 9: TAPED EXCERPT FROM BEING EXERCISE
Chapter 10: BEING EXERCISE CRITIQUE
Chapter 11: FROM JOAN’S JOURNAL, 1970
Chapter 12: BEING IN RELATION TO SCENE WORK
Chapter 13: FROM JOAN'S JOURNAL, 1972
Chapter 14: DIFFERENT BEING STATES
Chapter 15: BEING EXERCISES
Chapter 16: 1. Personal Inventory I
Chapter 17: 2. One-Person BEING
Chapter 18: 3. Personal Inventory
Chapter 19: 5. I Am, I Want, I Need, I Feel
Chapter 20: 5. What Do I Want?
Chapter 21: 2. Getting Ready To Get Ready
Chapter 22: TENSION: HOW IT AFFECTS THE ACTOR
Chapter 23: FROM JOAN’S JOURNAL. TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1972
Chapter 24: CAUSES OF TENSION
Chapter 25: THE “ACTRESS”
Chapter 26: DEALING WITH TENSION
Chapter 27: THE PHYSICAL RELAXERS
Chapter 28: 1. Tense and Relax
Chapter 29: 2. Logey
Chapter 30: 3. Rag Doll
Chapter 31: 4. Original BEING
Chapter 32: 5. Deep Breathing
Chapter 33: 6. Abandonment
Chapter 34: 7. Dump
Chapter 35: 8. Dealing with the Demon
Chapter 36: 9. Expose Innermost Feelings in Gibberish
Chapter 37: 10. The Ingestion Exercise
Chapter 38: THE INVOLVEMENT GROUP
Chapter 39: 11. Taking Responsibility for Others
Chapter 40: 12. Total Selflessness
Chapter 41: 13. The Trivial Trio
Chapter 42: 14. Threshold of Interest
Chapter 43: INTERNAL AWARENESS
Chapter 44: 15. Personal Inventory I
Chapter 45: 16. Personal Inventory II
Chapter 46: 17. What Do I Want?
Chapter 47: 18. I Am, I Want, I Need, I Feel
Chapter 48: EXTERNAL AWARENESS
Chapter 49: 19. Nature Walk
Chapter 50: 20. Awareness Levels
Chapter 51: 21. Observe, Wonder and Perceive I
Chapter 52: 22. Farmer’s Market
Chapter 53: PURPOSES OF THE FARMER’S MARKET EXERCISE
Chapter 54: SENSORY AWARENESS
Chapter 55: 23. Sensory Inventory: How the Senses Work
Chapter 56: 24. Sensitizing
Chapter 57: GETTING TO THE DEEPER SELF
Chapter 58: 25. Stream of Consciousness
Chapter 59: 26. I’m Afraid That …
Chapter 60: 27.I Like That …
Chapter 61: 28. I Care, I Don’t Care
Chapter 62: 29. Personal Point of View
Chapter 63: 30. Center Circle
Chapter 64: 31. Personal Inventory
Chapter 65: 32. Self Inventory
Chapter 66: GETTING RELATED TO PEOPLE ON AND OFF THE STAGE…
Chapter 67: THE ROUND EXERCISES
Chapter 68: 33. Ego Reconstruction
Chapter 69: 34. Reluctancy
Chapter 70: 35. How I See Myself
Chapter 71: 36. Feedback
Chapter 72: TWO-PEOPLE RELATIONSHIP EXERCISE
Chapter 73: 37. Hold Hands and Look at Each Other
Chapter 74: 38. Two-People Touch
Chapter 75: 39. Relate as If for the First Time
Chapter 76: 40. Ask for What You Want
Chapter 77: 41. Double Exposure
Chapter 78: 42. Telepathy
Chapter 79: 43. Observe. Wonder and Perceive II
Chapter 80: 44. Two-People BEING
Chapter 81: 45. Rock and Stroke
Chapter 82: 3. Common Sensory Acting
Chapter 83: SENSE MEMORY
Chapter 84: 1. Sensory Inventory
Chapter 85: 2. The Sensory Game
Chapter 86: APPLICATION OF SENSE MEMORY
Chapter 87: 3. The Sense Memory Exercise
Chapter 88: ABOUT THE SENSE MEMORY EXERCISE
Chapter 89: SENSE MEMORY CHECKLIST
Chapter 90: MARATHON: SENSE MEMORY ROUND
Chapter 91: FINDING YOUR BEST TIME AND PLACE TO WORK
Chapter 92: SENSORY EXPLORATION AND EXPERIMENTATION
Chapter 93: 4. Sense Memory Looked Forward To
Chapter 94: 5. Feelies
Chapter 95: 6. Sense Memory Workout
Chapter 96: 7. What-Not Boxes
Chapter 97: 8. On-the-Spot Sense Memorizing
Chapter 98: 9. Kinesthetics
Chapter 99: 10. Sense Memory Guessing Games
Chapter 100: 11. Get a Sense of Being Naked
Chapter 101: 12. Recreate a Moment from Today
Chapter 102: 13. Animate an Inanimate Object
Chapter 103: 14. The Desert Exercise
Chapter 104: WORKING WITH MEANINGFUL OBJECTS
Chapter 105: OBLIGATION AND CHOICE
Chapter 106: USING SENSE MEMORY IN SCENE WORK
Chapter 107: THE REWARDS OF SENSE MEMORY
Chapter 108: 4. Preparation
Chapter 109: “METHINKS I HEAR A CANNON”
Chapter 110: MISUNDERSTANDING PREPARATION
Chapter 111: BEGIN BY BEING
Chapter 112: 1. One-Person BEING
Chapter 113: 2. Two-People BEING
Chapter 114: 3. Personal Inventories
Chapter 115: 4. The BEING Workout
Chapter 116: DAILY PRACTICE
Chapter 117: I. INSTRUMENTAL PREPARATIONS
Chapter 118: A. Preparations for Awareness
Chapter 119: 5. The Cluster of Four
Chapter 120: 6. Super Consciousness
Chapter 121: 7. Farmer’s Market
Chapter 122: 8. Observe, Wonder and Perceive
Chapter 123: DIALOGUE ON CRAFT
Chapter 124: 9. Sensory Inventory
Chapter 125: 10. Sense Memory
Chapter 126: 11. Sensuality
Chapter 127: B. Ego Preparations
Chapter 128: 12. Get a Sense of What You Used To Be
Chapter 129: 13. Take Your Due
Chapter 130: 14. Sense of Worth
Chapter 131: 15. Don’t Care
Chapter 132: 16. Positivity and Validation
Chapter 133: 17. Fun Exercises
Chapter 134: 18. Comparative Ego
Chapter 135: 19. Make Yourself Beautiful
Chapter 136: 20. Take-Over or Evangelist
Chapter 137: 21. Magic Pocket
Chapter 138: 22. Yeah! Yeah!
Chapter 139: 23. Feel and Affirm Self
Chapter 140: C. Preparations for Vulnerability
Chapter 141: DIALOGUE ON VULNERABILITY
Chapter 142: 24. Group Vulnerability
Chapter 143: 25. Pique and Expose Needs
Chapter 144: 26. Evocative Words
Chapter 145: 27. Sensory Choice
Chapter 146: 28. Affection, Tenderness and Love
Chapter 147: 29. Fear, Love and Hate
Chapter 148: 30. Ask for Help
Chapter 149: 31. Imaginary Monologue
Chapter 150: 32. Abandonment Exercises for Vulnerability
Chapter 151: D. Preparations for the Imagination
Chapter 152: 33. Pretend: Self and Two-People
Chapter 153: 34. Story Telling
Chapter 154: 35. Essences and Abstracts
Chapter 155: 36. Frontis Exercise
Chapter 156: 37. Fantas 37. Fantasies
Chapter 157: 38. Children’s Games
Chapter 158: 39. Believability
Chapter 159: II. PREPARATIONS FOR RELATING TO PEOPLE, OBJECTS AND PLACES
Chapter 160: 40. Two-People Believability
Chapter 161: 41. Blind Investigate
Chapter 162: 42. Observe, Wonder and Perceive II
Chapter 163: 43. Talk About What You’re Most Afraid Of
Chapter 164: 44. Non-Verbal Communication
Chapter 165: 45. Relate Moment-to-Moment with What You Feel
Chapter 166: 46. Share
Chapter 167: 47. Two-People Trick
Chapter 168: 48. Imaginary Monologue to a Real Partner but Talking to Someone Else
Chapter 169: 49. Imaginary Dialogue with Real Partner, Take Personally What’s Said to You
Chapter 170: 50. Pick Up on Everything You Didn’t Notice Before
Chapter 171: 51. Make Yourself Comfortable in This Place
Chapter 172: 52. Build a Beautiful Place Around You
Chapter 173: 53. Sensory Speculation
Chapter 174: 54. Affecting How You Already Feel
Chapter 175: 55. Affecting the Way You Feel About the Other Actor
Chapter 176: 56. Preparational Inventories
Chapter 177: 57. Create a Different Environment
Chapter 178: 58. Sensory Choice To Meet Obligation
Chapter 179: 59. Make Everything Around You More Important Than You
Chapter 180: 60. Say Words to Yourself Relating to a Meaningful Experience
Chapter 181: III. PREPARATIONS FOR DOING THE ROLE
Chapter 182: From Joan’s Journal: Using Preparation on the Job
Chapter 183: 61. Two-People Three-Part Relationship
Chapter 184: 62. Two-People Preparation
Chapter 185: 63. Group Preparation
Chapter 186: 64. Pretend Series
Chapter 187: 65. Character Background Preparation
Chapter 188: 66. Three-Step Monologue
Chapter 189: 67. Four Part Word Preparation