When the graduates come back to talk with the current high schoolers, I am always concerned that I have gotten off track with my teaching. In my Company class I am trying to model the class after the experience of being in a college BFA program. I want to simulate the intense training there to a small, select class so that they can get an idea if this is the kind of training that they would like to commit more time and MUCH MUCH more money on. A good idea, I thought. The problem is that I have not BEEN in an MFA, let alone a BFA program for years and years – since well before the internet.
And I am worried that the landscape has change. I am hoping that the methodology that I offer is at least NOT going to hinder their college work. I suppose that they still teach Stanislavsky and Meisner – and I guess those two practionares are not writing any more NEW work so I may be good. I’ll let you know what MY report card looks like once they head back to college semester #2.