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If you want to be free of self-criticism when you perform, you have to rehearse free of self-criticism. Greg Dean's Rehearsal Process lays out a format that will eliminate self-criticism from any performance or presentation.
GREG DEAN'S REHEARSAL PROCESS
PHASE ONE: PREPARATION
Designate a Critic Spot and a Rehearsal Space
Choose a Joke or Routine to Rehearse
Identify the Experience That Inspired the Joke
Explore the Details of the Experience
Decide How to Enact the Experience
PHASE TWO: ENACTING THE EXPERIENCE
Portray Self Pov
Evaluate
Portray Character Pov
Evaluate
Portray Narrator Pov
Evaluate
PHASE THREE: PRACTICE PERFORMING
Decide How to Communicate the Experience
Perform the Joke or Routine
Evaluate the Performance
LET'S REHEARSE
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LET'S REHEARSE
Your goal in rehearsing is turning your material into sensory experiences from all
relevant POVs as though it is actually happening to you, then you can remember your
show as you would a story about a real experience you had. The effect this will have
on your audience is they will not just watch you tell joke, but enter the movie of
your show.
Unlike my other techniques described previously, this Rehearsal Process is not a
step by step procedure, but rather a series of interactive phases. It requires you
to evaluate the experience within the joke and then decide, based on that evaluation,
how to enact the experience and perform the joke. To do this you may need to move back
and forth between the steps as a means of coding the experience in such a manner
that will make it easy for you to respond with the joke.
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