For my presentation, I'm planning on focussing it on methods of characterisation as well as looking at my first scene with Grace and seeing how different practitioners' methods and theories apply to it.
re brecht if you are going to use him. This might be useful for more of you. If, for example, you say that interacting with audience in promenade was a Brechtian technique, think further. It might break the fourth wall yes but why did Brecht want the actors to do that in the first place? He had very important reasons to do with his ideology and politics. Were they important to us? if not, why did we break the fourth wall? Also, later Stanislavksi is different from earlier Stanislavksi work and techniques. Sometimes how you worked with me was more relevant to Stanislavksi's later work related to physical actions. We found actions first and thought about character psychology later. Found physical images and left it to the actor to answer questions about the character as homework. Also, did we make the subtext visible? or having found it did the actors internalise?
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ReplyDeletere brecht if you are going to use him. This might be useful for more of you. If, for example, you say that interacting with audience in promenade was a Brechtian technique, think further. It might break the fourth wall yes but why did Brecht want the actors to do that in the first place? He had very important reasons to do with his ideology and politics. Were they important to us? if not, why did we break the fourth wall?
ReplyDeleteAlso, later Stanislavksi is different from earlier Stanislavksi work and techniques. Sometimes how you worked with me was more relevant to Stanislavksi's later work related to physical actions. We found actions first and thought about character psychology later. Found physical images and left it to the actor to answer questions about the character as homework. Also, did we make the subtext visible? or having found it did the actors internalise?