Version 1: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: get in touch with sensibility and awareness to external and internal (imagination and personal experience) stimuli; break down natural inhibitions; prepare to approach scene work with intelligence, integrity, heart and emotional freedom; analyze and perform a text using exercises in dramatic action; apply observation and character studies through improvisation; explore and perform a monologue. Version 2: Students will be able to: demonstrate proper relaxation and preparation, targeting focus toward given circumstances; the role of imagination in generating a physical response in the actor; demonstrate the capacity to stand alone (without a partner) and perform with honesty and specificity; prepare and perform selected pieces assigned by the instructor; learn to select a piece that suits his/her voice and type (dramatic or comedic), and after memorization, personalization, sense memory, pursuit of a specific goal or outcome, role of the obstacles in increasing tension, and suspense, pacing, physicalization and physical connection to text.