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Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Practitioners - Mrs Williams
STANISLAVSKI
- Emotion memory - reliving experience (made actors go mad as it was too traumatic)
- Units & objectives - super-objectives (whole play), through-line (smaller objectives)
- Actioning - if there is a line of text that's not coming across as real, add an action to make it real
- Changed emotion memory to sense memory - thinking about senses rather than actual experience so actors don't go mad
- 1896-1956
- Grew up in Nazi Germany
- Called out propaganda & got exiled
- Berliner Ensemble
- Three Penny Opera
- Caucasian Chalk Circle
- Good Woman
- Didactic theatre - teaching, to change society
- Epic theatre - alienation, V-effect - turn off audience's emotions but turn on their brain
- "What there is shall go to those that are good for it"
- Characters talk in 3rd person & use direct audience address
- Theatre group in Britain
- Started in 2000
- Founded by Felix Barrett
- Promenade theatre - walking
- Site specific - the place is the stimulus - graveyard, school, forest
- Theatre of cruelty
- 1896-1948
- Known work - The Theatre and It's Double
- Went to Paris in 20s & met the Surrealists
- Acted in a couple of films
- Surrealists rejected him
- 1926-1928 - co-ran Theatre Alfred Jarry - producing work by August Strindberg
- 'The Cenci' - incest heavy
- 1938 - The Theatre and It's Double - surrealism, symbolism
- Psychological and human stagnation - restore theatre to its original destiny - fused together dance, song, pantomime in a perspective of hallucination & fear
- Theatre of cruelty - "in which violent physical images crush & hypnotise the sensibility of the spectator seized by the theatre as a whirlwind of higher forces"
- Brazilian
- Forum theatre, invisible theatre & image theatre
- Forum - bringing people from audience to fix scene & make it better
- Invisible - scene with actions protagonist would like to try in real life, potential real life situations
- Image - short scenes, 1-2 minutes, strong imagery
- 1937 East London, Jewish
- Extreme physicality is used to make sense of the poetic language
- Uses iambic pentameter & rhyming couplets etc.
- Flowing poetic but horrible scenes
- Uses experiences
- Founded 1994
- Work reflects contemporary culture
- Non-naturalistic
- Combines movement, design, music & text
- Frantic method - direction through movement & physical awareness can be implemented in moments of stillness - physical theatre
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