Acting 3

Course unit code:

201HER3

Course unit title:

Acting 3

Mode of delivery:

zkouška

Range:

8/T

Type of course unit:

compulsory subject

Level of course unit:

Year of study

2nd year

Semester when the course unit is delivered

zimní

Number of ECTS credits allocated:

8

Garant předmětu:

Jaroslava ŠIKTANCOVÁ, Lukáš HLAVICA, Marie GROSSMANNOVÁ-MÁLKOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Jaroslava ŠIKTANCOVÁ, Lukáš HLAVICA, Marie GROSSMANNOVÁ-MÁLKOVÁ

Study Objectives:

Creation of a dramatic character with regard to an entire play, seeking related themes and their accentuation in the chosen dramatic situation.

Mode of delivery:

Instruction through the preparation and study of a short drama text expressing a dramatic situation and relationship to active acting as a comlex dramatic character in the genre selected.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Ability to create a real character on stage and build a psychologically sensible line of character action in a dramatic situation.

Recommended optional programme components

Knowledge of contemporary theatre and films with exception acting performances.

Course contents:

Curriculum:

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.

Syllabus:

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

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Classes, lighting, exams, summary performance and its review.

Assessment methods and criteria

Graded is participation in all class hours, acceptance and creative development of assignments, inspired collaboration, sense of dramatic situation and purposeful action, peripheral grades of meaning, sensed of style and genre. Grading is significantly influenced by the artistic results at the Summary exam.

Language of instruction:

Czech

Work placement(s):

Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:

	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
Tue	místnost K107 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 15:00–18:00 (paralelka 1) místnost K106 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 15:00–18:00 (paralelka 1)
Fri	místnost K107 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) GROSSMANNOVÁ-MÁLKOVÁ M. 15:00–18:00 (paralelka 1) místnost K106 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) GROSSMANNOVÁ-MÁLKOVÁ M. 15:00–18:00 (paralelka 1)
Thu
Fri	místnost K106 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 15:00–18:00 (paralelka 1) místnost K107 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 15:00–18:00 (paralelka 1)

Datum	Den	Čas	Tutor	Místo	Notes	Č. paralelky
	Tue	15:00–18:00		Učebna Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1
	Tue	15:00–18:00		Učebna Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1
	Fri	15:00–18:00	GROSSMANNOVÁ-MÁLKOVÁ M.	Učebna Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1
	Fri	15:00–18:00	GROSSMANNOVÁ-MÁLKOVÁ M.	Učebna Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1
	Fri	15:00–18:00		Učebna Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1
	Fri	15:00–18:00		Učebna Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Herectví činoherního divadla (Mgr.) (main subject)