- Introduction
Konstantin Stanislavski
- Biography Overview
- Theory and Practice: Stanislavski’s legacy
- Training the Actor: Relaxation • Action: Given Circumstances, If • Concentration of attention: Object of attention, Circles of Attention • Imagination • Emotion Memory • Communion • Adaptation • Tempo-rhythm: Speech tempo-rhythm
- The ‘System’ in rehearsal: Preliminary analysis: Supertask • Through-action and Counter-through-action • Breaking down the play: Episodes, Basic Actions, Tasks, Facts; Subtext • The text • Preparing the production
- Sample questions
Edward Gordon Craig
- Biography Overview
- Theory and Practice: A question of style • The stage director • Craig and the actor • Stage design: The steps, Screens
- Sample questions
Antonin Artaud
- Biography Overview
- Theory and Practice: The language of theatre • Theatre of Cruelty • A Theatre of Cruelty production: Content, Staging, Direction, Performers, Set, Lighting, Sound, Costume
- Sample Questions
Bertolt Brecht
- Biography Overview
- Theory and Practice: Epic Theatre, Dialectics (Dialectical Materialism, Dialectical Theatre), Alienation (Gest), Lehrstücke, Model books (Couragemodell)
- Sample Questions
Jerzy Grotowski
- Biography Overview
- Theory and Practice: Poor Theatre (Training the Actor, The Actor’s Role, Text), Performance Space
- Sample Questions
Peter Brook
- Biography Overview
- Theory and Practice: The empty space, The four theatres (The Deadly Theatre, The Holy Theatre, The Rough Theatre, The Immediate Theatre)
- Sample Questions
Augusto Boal
- Biography Overview
- Theory and Practice: Theatre of the Oppressed (First Stage: Knowing the Body, Second Stage: Making the Body Expressive, Third Stage: The Theatre as Language, Fourth Stage: The Theatre as Discourse)
- Sample Question
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