Working Techniques with an Actor

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Garant předmětu

Jméno vyučujícího (jména vyučujících)

Katedra

Předmět zajišťuje Katedra alternativního a loutkového divadla

Obsah

Course objectives:

Creating student’s skills of articulation 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 student’s 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 contents:

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

Work on a method of formulation of remarks for actors

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

Výsledky učení

In the field of knowledge (K), the student:

knows the rules needed to analyze drama text

knows the methods of work with actors

In the field of skills (S), the student:

individually collects knowledge concerning chosen drama text, including its historical context, presents and justifies the choice of the text

individually analyzes drama text and presents the analysis to the group of students and actors

formulates and presents “acting tasks” to actors basing on fragments of a drama text

shows 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 (SC), the student:

individually realizes own aims as a director among a group of actors

presents own concepts and ideas to actors in a communicative way

is able to conduct discussions concerning own ideas of stage solutions

Předpoklady a další požadavky

Literatura

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.

Hodnoticí metody a kritéria

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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