Telling stories -- How did we get here? -- A new paradigm arises -- How it works -- Storytelling and character : Analytic ; Textual orthodoxy ; Imaginative ; Presentational ; Observational -- The structure of the story : Action structure ; Other structures ; Techniques -- In class : Starting off ; Platform 1: Improvisation, Keith Johnstone ; Platform 2: Constantin Stanislavski ; Platform 3: Michael Chekhov ; Platform 4: Monologues ; Platform 5: Lee Strasberg ; Platform 6: Sanford Meisner ; Platform 7: Bertolt Brecht ; Platform 8: Scene work ; Platform 9: Monologue rehearsal and performance -- Other voices : Stella Adler ; F.M. Alexander ; Antonin Artaud ; Augusto Boal ; Anne Bogart ; Peter Brook ; Robert Brustein ; Jacques Copeau ; Richard Foreman ; Jerzy Grotowski ; Uta Hagen ; Rudolf Laban ; Vsevolod Meyerhold ; Viola Spolin ; Tadashi Suzuki ; Yevgeny Vakhtangov ; Commedia dell'arte ; The living theatre -- Telling classical stories : Know what you're saying ; Iambic pentameter ; Speak up ; Not all words are created equal ; Rhetoric ; Variety is the spice of life ; Breath and form ; A brief model for a Shakespeare curriculum -- Telling new stories -- Telling stories: where we are now.