Forms of Acting 1

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Subject guarantor

Zuzana SÍLOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Zuzana SÍLOVÁ

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 theatrical productions, selected films, television and other video or audio recordings.

Documentary material for individual works including photography. Period critical reviews and personal statements by the artists (memoirs, diaries, interviews)

Literature:

Recommended basic literature for comedy acting topics:

Vostrý, Jaroslav, O hercích a herectví, Praha 1998 (selected chapters)

Jan Werich: Klauni, např. in Úsměv klauna, Praha 1984

Zuzana Sílová: Komedianti na českém jevišti. Cyklus článků v časopise Disk, týkajících se historie českého komediálního herectví (Disk 28, 29, 32), Vlasty Buriana (Disk 33 září 2010), V+W (Disk 34 prosinec 2010), Huga Haase (Disk 6 prosinec 2003 a Disk 37 září 2011), Nataši Gollové (Disk 41 září 2012), dále Vlastimila Brodského (Disk 22 prosinec 2007, též v knize Generace a kontinuita, Praha 2009) (Each article and publication is provided with additional relevant literature

Pavel Bár: Osvobozené herectví: Miroslav Horníček a Miloš Kopecký (nejen) v karlínském divadle, Disk 29 září 2009 (also in this book Generace a kontinuita, Praha 2009)

Jan Hyvnar: Herec v divadle Jiřího Frejky, Disk 15 březen 2006

Jan Hyvnar: Herci Činoherního klubu v živlu hry, Disk 19 březen 2007

(obojí najdete též v knize Jan Hyvnar: O českém dramatickém herectví 20. století, Praha 2008)

Téma O hercích a herectví v časopise Disk viz seznam na webovkách, adresa:

http://casopisdisk.amu.cz/cs/pro-studenty/o-hercich-a-herectvi-1

Actor Biografies:

Charlie Chaplin: Můj životopis, Praha 1967, 2000

Louis Delluc: Chaplin, Praha 1924

Vlasta Burian: řada knih, z nich doporučuji:

Antonín Král, Petr Král: Vlasta Burian, Praha 1967

E. A. Longen: Král komiků, několik vydání

Books by Ondřeje Suchého devotet to comedians, comedy acting and small stage acting + additional memoirs regarding the 1st Republic period, particularly H. Haase, O. Nového, V+W

V+W: Jiří Voskovec: Klobouk ve křoví, Praha 1965

Hedbávný, Zdeněk, / Pešek, Ladislav, Tvář bez masky, Praha 1987 and additional publicatons

+ selected actor biographies according to the covered topics.

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

Further information

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

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.) (optional subject)