Flava Entertainment Productions Acting Workshop:

Class Begins Sunday June 12th at 6:45 p. m. (Sign in at 6:30 p. m. ) $10 per class 3030 south main SLC, UT.

Please pick one scene and have ready for class:

#1 -Male

Field of Dreams

The One Constant Through All the Years - Baseball ("Part of Our Past), and "People Will Come"

In Boston, disillusioned, controversial and reclusive author Terence Mann's (James Earl Jones) poignant "People will come" speech to idealistic, transplanted city boy-turned-farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) - an elucidation about the purpose of the game of baseball in American history, to help Ray seek out the meaning of the voices and the purpose of the ball field:

"Ray. People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn into your driveway, not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door, as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it, for it is money they have and peace they lack. . . And they'll walk off to the bleachers and sit in their shirt sleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines where they sat when they were children, and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game, and it'll be as if they'd dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they'll have to brush them away from their faces. . . People will come, Ray. . . The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Ohhhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come. . . "

#2 Male

Joe Versus The Volcano

"I Can Feel Them Sucking the Juice Out of My Eyeballs"

After a terminal illness diagnosis with only six months to live, downtrodden medical supply firm office worker Joe Banks (Tom Hanks) expressed his real detestable feelings about his job to unpleasant boss Mr. Frank Waturi (Dan Hedaya) after returning from a three hour lunch to his desk area, covered in the greenish-light of flourescent lights. He blamed his condition on a "brain cloud" before announcing that he was quitting. He packed up his desk (with a Classics Illustrated copy of Robinson Crusoe, and the books Romeo and Juliet and The Odyssey; also taking his ukulele and lamp), and bequeathed his lamp to co-worker secretary DeDe (Meg Ryan).

Mr. Waturi, Frank. I quit. . . . I've been working here four and a half years. The work I did I probably could have done in six months. That leaves four years left over. Four years. If I had them now - like gold in my hand. (he presented his lamp to DeDe) Here, this is for you. Goodbye, DeDe.

He then turned around to confront Mr. Waturi:

This life. Life, what a joke! This situation, this room. . . You look terrible, Mr. Waturi. You look like a bag of s--t stuffed in a cheap suit. Not that anybody could look good under these zombie lights. I, I, I can feel them sucking the juice out of my eyeballs. Suck suck suck suck suck. (sucking noise) $300 bucks a week. That's the news. For $300 bucks a week, I've lived in this sink, this used rubber (Frank: "Watch it, mister. There's a woman here") Don't you think I know that, Frank? Don't you think I'm aware that there is a woman here? I can smell her, like, like a flower. I can taste her like sugar on my tongue. When I'm 20 feet away, I can hear the fabric of her dress when she moves in her chair! Not that I've done anything about it.

I've gone all day, every day, not doing, not saying, not taking the chance, for $300 dollars a week. And Frank, the coffee, it stinks. It tastes like arsenic. These lights give me a headache. If they don't give you a headache, you must be dead, so let's arrange the funeral. . . . You're not tellin' me nothin'. . . . Why, I ask myself, why have I put up with you, I can't imagine. But I know. It's fear. Yellow freakin' fear. I've been too chicken-s--t afraid to live my life, so I sold it to you for $300 freakin' dollars a week! (He grabbed Waturi by the collar) You are lucky I don't kill you! You're lucky I don't rip your freakin' throat out! But I'm not going to! And maybe you're not so lucky at that. 'Cause I'm gonna leave you here, Mr. Wahoo Waturi. And what could be worse than that? (Joe left, but then the door re-opened and he came back in) DeDe?. . . How about dinner tonight?

#1 Female

Addams Family Values

 The Hypocrisy of Thanksgiving

Steely-glaring, contemptuous Wednesday Addams (Christina Ricci), participating in a summer camp play at Camp Chippewa about the "First Thanksgiving" feast as the lead Native American Pocahontas, lambasted the lead white Pilgrim character with this ad-libbed monologue to the stunned reactions of everyone:

Wait!.. We cannot break bread with you...You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now, my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the roadsides. You will play golf, and enjoy hot h'ors d'oeuvres. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They have said: 'Do not trust the pilgrims, especially Sarah Miller'...And for all these reasons, I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground.

 

#2 Female

Erin Brockovich

 

 "A Lame Ass Offer"

During a meeting with lawyers from the Pacific, Gas & Electric (PG&E) energy company about a settlement regarding contamination of the water supply of the town of Hinkley, California, legal assistant, environmental activist, and single mother Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) spoke harshly. She was reacting to a statement by Ms. Sanchez (Gina Gallego), one of the lawyers, that $20 million was more than any of the defendants had ever dreamed of:

Oh see, now that pisses me off. First of all, since the demur we have more than 400 plaintiffs and, let's be honest, we all know there are more out there. They may not be the most sophisticated people, but they do know how to divide and $20 million isn't s--t when you split it between them. Second of all, these people don't dream about being rich. They dream about being able to watch their kids swim in a pool without worrying that they'll have to have a hysterectomy at the age of twenty. Like Rosa Diaz, a client of ours. Or have their spine deteriorate, like Stan Blume, another client of ours.

So before you come back here with another lame-ass offer, I want you to think real hard about what your spine is worth, Mr. Walker. Or what you might expect someone to pay you for your uterus, Ms. Sanchez? Then you take out your calculator and you multiply that number by a hundred. Anything less than that is a waste of our time. By the way, we had that water brought in special for you folks. It came from a well in Hinkley.