The technique gives the student practical means of releasing tensions and teaches the student to be aware of responses, enabling him to choose action rather than react through habit. Practice of his technique helps the actor to relax, concentrate, and maintain focus within a role, and is considered invaluable by many actors. It is taught by many of the major British drama schools. In the Marymount Program, the Alexander Technique helps the student to better profit from all of the other classes. It's a cramped world we live in.
Theatre is an expansive art.
In all of us there is more voice, more breath, more emotional flow, more physical flexibility, and more imagination than we have yet experienced. Action classes are designed to release this vocal, physical, emotional, imaginative, total creative potential. During two semesters vital seeds are sown. The actor must then take the information forward into the profession and continue to grow. Eric Mallett .