Acting 5

Tutor:

Jana HLAVÁČOVÁ, Jan ŠŤASTNÝ

Synopsis:

The course focuses on mastery of practical knowledge and skills that serve for the fostering of acting talent and students' performing ability and the cultivating of personality. The departure point for preparation is drama as a quality that gives the impulses and preconditions for the creation of a theatrical character through dramatic action. Another part of the developed abilities is theoretical reflection on specific problems of acting and general problems of the art of drama.

Prerequisites:

Study Objectives:

1) Become able to relax and concentrate.

2) Master basic psychosomatic techniques.

3) Master verbal and nonverbal communication.

4) Develop fantasy, imagination, playfulness and creativity.

5) Ability to analyze and interpret a dramatic text.

6) Mastery of basic acting methods in various genres.

7) Independent creation of a theatrical character.

Outline and Syllabus:

1.Authenticity and improvization.

2.Theatrical behavior and actions.

3.Perceiving dramatic space and handling mise en scene.

4.Dialogic character and partnership interplay.

5. Creative starting of a dramatic situation.

6. Stylization in various genres and poetic modes.

7. Principles of the structured building of a theatrical character.

The starting off dramatic situations develops the ability to improvise and authentic action in given circumstances. Students are led to perceive dramatic space and to a creative handling of mise en scene in accordance with the production genre. During their studies they deepen their ability to engage in dialogue and partnership interplay. The students familiarize themselves with various dramatic genres, theatrical poetic modes and kinds of verse in drama, and especially with blank verse. This systematic preparation climaxes with the independent creation of a theatrical character in an integral theatrical form.

Study materials:

K. S. Stanislavskij: Můj život v umění, Praha 1962

Radovan Lukavský: Stanislavského Metoda herecké práce, Praha 1978

Michail Čechov: O herecké technice, Praha 1996

Otakar Zich: Estetika dramatického umění, Praha 1931, 1986

Jiří Frejka: Smích a divadelní maska, Praha 1942

Jindřich Honzl: K novému významu umění, Praha 1956, a Základy a praxe moderního divadla, Praha 1963

Jaroslav Vostrý: O hercích a herectví, Praha 1998

Jan Hyvnar: Herec v moderním divadle, Praha 1998

Radovan Lukavský: Být nebo nebýt hercem ? Monology o herectví, Praha 1981

Denis Diderot: herecký paradox

Bertolt Brecht: Myšlenky

Peter Brook: Prázdný prostor

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon	místnost K326 Pracovna pedagogů (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 15:00–18:00 (paralelka 1) místnost K332 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 15:00–18:00 (paralelka 1)
Tue
Fri
Thu	místnost K326 Pracovna pedagogů (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 15:00–18:00 (paralelka 1) místnost K332 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 15:00–18:00 (paralelka 1)
Fri

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený magisterský herectví ČD (main subject)