Forms of Acting 1
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 201PDH1 | ZK | 1 | 3T | Czech | winter |
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
To introduce students to forms of individual acting styles and manners of creating a character in the a line of Czech and world acting figures.
Capturing and recognizing development through the analysis of individual performance.
Comparison with one's own experience, reviewed in an inquiry of the psychology of acting.
Mode of study
Analysis of acting performance based on the viewed performance, film and other video or audio recordings.
Description and analysis of acting tools.
Ranking in a historic context.
Survey of acting issues.
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Empathy and subsequent analysis skills at the entrance exam level.
Course contents
Continuing the main courses „Acting“ and „Stage Design“ and the lecture series „Theatre in Western Culture“, this elective course „Forms of Acting“ is an opportunity to observe, recognize and review issues in the study field. From the very beginning of their „practice“, with gradual experience, the students are guided to a systematic analysis and deeper review of issues in acting in two manners. Self-review (a questionnaire focused on the psychology of acting) and an analysis of „historical examples“ compared to contemporary forms and levels of acting. Comparing their own experience with „examples“ - important representatives of individual creative styles - enabling a double perspective on acting practice: so called „from without“, through observation, description and anlaysis of creative processes of that other, and „from within“, in rehearsals mapping and identifying issues the student encounters in their own role preparations and later in the course of staging experience. Personal stories overlapping object observations and knowledge are directed towards and analysis of general problems: professional relations among acting partners, the actor - text (basis) relationship, actor - director, drama figure - acting figure, collaboration in the staging team.
Recommended or required reading
Viewing theatre stagings, selected films, TV and other video or audio recordings.
Documentation materials for individual pieces including photographic, period professional reviews and personal recordings of well-known artists (memories, journals, interviews)
Basic professional literature on drama acting:
Vostrý, Jaroslav, O hercích a herectví, druhé, rozšířené vydání, Praha 2014 (selected chapters)
Čechov, Michail: Hercova cesta / O herecké technice, Praha 2017
Lukavský, Radovan: Být nebo nebýt. Monology o herectví, Praha 1985
Vostrý, Sílová: Je dnes ještě možné herecké umění? (Příspěvek ke scénologii herectví), Praha 2008 (selected chapters)
Zich, Otakar: Estetika dramatického umění, Praha 1986: 89–131 (V. drama figurs, acting)
Actor monographs and memoirs
Werich, Jan:, Klauni, in: Úsměv Klauna, Praha 1984 a další vydání
Vlasta Burian: např. Antonín Král, Petr Král: Vlasta Burian, Praha 1967; E. A. Longen: Král komiků, několik vydání
Valtrová, Marie: Kronika rodu Hrušínských, Praha 1994
Vostrý, Jaroslav: Petr Čepek. Talent a osud, Praha 1996
Pešek, Ladislav: Tvář bez masky, Praha 1977, 1998
Scheinpflugová, Olga: Byla jsem na světě, Praha 1994 (druhé, opravené vydání)
Fabianová, Vlasta: Jsem to já?, Praha 1993
Vostrý, Jaroslav: Zdeněk Štěpánek. Herec a dějiny, Praha 1997
Charlie Chaplin: Můj životopis, Praha 1967, 2000
Louis Delluc: Chaplin, Praha 1924
Olivier, Laurence, Hercova zpověď, Praha 1982
Brunelin, André: Gabin, Praha 1995
Eliot, Marc: Americký rebel: život Clinta Eastwooda, České Budějovice 2013
+ other books and article by personal choice related to figures of interest whose films will be shown.
Topic „O hercích a herectví“ in the magazin Disk – viz the list at the web address:
http://edicedisk.amu.cz/cs/archiv/pro-studenty/o-hercich-a-herectvi-1
Assessment methods and criteria
Evaluation is based on the assigned written paper made up of two parts: 1. analysis of a selected character; 2. survey regarding acting.
Course web page
http://casopisdisk.amu.cz/cs/pro-studenty/o-hercich-a-herectvi
Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:
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| Thu | 10:30–13:15 | Zuzana SÍLOVÁ | Hallerův sál Karlova 26, Praha 1 |
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Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Acting for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (required subject)
- Directing and Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (B.A.) (required subject)