1. GENERAL HEADING: Improvisation

2. TITLE OF EXERCISE: "Concentration"

3. GOALS: To build concentration and alertness; imagination.

4. NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 4 to 5 students simultaneously, but working independently.

5. EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES: None.

6. CLASS TIME NEEDED: 10 - 15 minutes.

7. STEP-BY-STEP-DESCRIPTION:

8. POINTS FOR OBSERVATION, DISCUSSION: The importance of concentration; Public Solitude; and Observation.

9. SOURCE/REFERENCE: M. A. Chekhov's essay "Stanislavksi's Method of Acting" in Toby Cole's Acting: A Handbook of the Stanislavski Method, NYC: Crown Publishers, 1955.

10. ADDITIONAL READING: N.A.

11. VARIATIONS: Unlimited