Working Techniques with an Actor

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The subject provides Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre

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Course objectives:

Creating students’ skills to articulate their own interpretational, aesthetic and formal concepts in the way that should help the actor in the process of creating a role and also help to conduct broadly understood stage actions.

Working on students’ skill to formulate ideas in a communicative way and to pass them to the actor in a form of so called “acting tasks“, which are more detailed dispositions concerning actor’s physical actions as well as emotional actions in concrete stage situations.

Creating logical “acting tasks“ connected to the director’s ideas and concepts.

Course content:

Practical collaboration with students of acting as well as professional actors based on a chosen literary material, adaptation or their own script.

Work on a method of structuring remarks for actors.

Direction of a short theatrical form (etude, scene, one-act play).

Learning outcomes

In the field of knowledge students:

know the rules needed to analyze drama text;

know the methods of work with actors.

In the field of skills students:

individually collect knowledge concerning chosen drama text, including its historical context, present and justifiy the choice of the text;

individually analyze drama text and present the analysis to the group of students and actors;

formulate and present “acting tasks“ to actors based on fragments of a drama text;

show the skill of flexibility while working with an actor and the skill of introducing adjustments in their actions during rehearsals conducted by the student.

In the field of social competences students:

individually realize their own aims as directors among a group of actors;

present their own concepts and ideas to actors in a communicative way;

are able to conduct discussions concerning their own ideas of stage solutions.

Prerequisites and other requirements

None.

Literature

Chekhov, Michael. To the Actor. On the Technique of Acting., Routledge, 2002.

Barba, Eugenio, Savarese, Nicola. A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer, Taylor & Francis, 2011.

Craig, Edward Gordon. On the art of the theatre, Franc Chamberlain, 2008.

Book, Stephen. Book on Acting: Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater, and Television., Silman-James Press, 2002.

Additional reading:

Barba, Eugenio. The Paper Canoe: A Guide to Theatre Anthropology, Routledge, 1995.

Stanislavski, Konstantin. An Actor Prepares, Bloomsbury Academic, 20013.

Evaluation methods and criteria

The final result should be a short theatrical form based on selected literary material.

Passing grade based on assessment of successive stages of work on the etude, ability to formulate acting tasks, degree of creativity and involvement in classes.

Class attendance - minimum 80%.

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