How to introduce :
Part IV. The World of the Play [ "Cultural Anthropology" ]
Chapter 9. Comparison [ study ]
... Every play is a "period piece"! AA
BM acting III *
"Be honest and accept the consequences; be creative and accept the consequences ... And above all, if you choose the path of the artist, understand that life is a risk." -- Jesús Urzagasti
Faces by Chekhov Fall 2005 (in class) * Bear (scenes)
2007 updates -- acting2 group
Mask Characterization: An Acting Process by Libby Appel; Southern Illinois University Press, 1982 - Introduction: The Class Structure
- Part 1: The Instructor's Guide
- Encounter: Meeting the Mask
- Discovery: Opening and Stretching the Actor
- Development: Finding the Character
- Extension: Layering and Broadening the Character
- Part 2: The Actor's Guide
- Afterword
Yoga & Freud Summary Lessons : 9 - 10 - 11 - 12
Textbook. Part 3. Images ("Inner mask = image" 122)
Questions Transition to Kaplan's Part 4. & 5. Storytelling
"You as Medium" (Actor = Creator + Medium) --M. formula.
Homework
master gesture and "vocal mask" (voice ID)
Time and Place (THR Theory pages)
Author's value system (script.vtheatre.net)
A. Conventions of the text and B. conventions of the productiion
[ Kaplan 195 ]
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BM III -- Intro : Role - Show - Public
... North Idea = Strindberg [ case study ]
"10 Questions" (Kaplan 180):
1. In the world of the play, what is beautiful and what is ugly?
2. ... what is strong and what is weak?
3. ... wisdom and ignorance?
4. ... skill and ineptitude?
5. ... common and elite?
6. ... polite and not?
7. ... good and evil?
8. ... how do people survive?
9. ... how do people improve?
10. ... how do people win or lose?
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[ References to Desire under the Elms" O'neil + Hedda Gabler -- Kaplan ]
Freud and Strindberg
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Refresh act.vtheatre.net (acting1)
[ topics from BioMethod -- ]
Aristotle #6 (Poetics) : spectacle (show) = How "Texture" becomes "Structure"
textbook : lectures
... Transition from part II (Episodes) to III. Building Images (Kaplan)
[ Character (Playwright) into ROLE (Actor) : from Page to Stage ]
Ch. 7. Mask (vs. Face)
Ch. 8. The Language of Images
Actor's Text )
PUBLIC (Book of Spectator)
Role page in method?
name all 7 scenes in Miss Julie!
-- Myth and Image
Playwright > Director > Actor
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The Book of Spectator: Click to View or Add Links.
script.vtheatre.net/doc/julie Strindberg Lessons : Miss Julie (class project)
Berman-Tarkovsky (film.vtheatre.net)
[ see Acting I: Biomethod ]
Second part of the textbook:
Part IV. Inhabiting the World of the Play Cultural Anthropology (173)
Ten Questions
The Play Will Create Its Own Categories for Rules (193)
Chapter 10. Playing by the Rules -- or Not
Learning, Playing and Breaking the Rules
Notebook
... [my side-notes]
Part V. Telling a Story In the Theatre of the Audience's Mind
Four Elements of Storytelling: Event * Character quotes * Descriptions * Story Apparatus *
Chapter 11. Storytelling The Point of a Point of View (243)
Chapter 12. Dramatic Acting and Illusion of Character
Chapter 13. Shapespeare's Soliloquies Shake's pages in other directories:
Chapter 14. Comparing Approaches Different Methods Yield Different Results
Chapter 15. Choosing an Approach Start with Yourself
Text Suggests
Chapter 16. Combining Approaches Building * Recording Your Work
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