"Puppet Master"? stagematrix.com [After 2009] & T-blog [Director's Notes]
* physical (open) acting (from "outside in")

theatre biomechanics : acting 2

2009 : NEW: lectureshare.com directing class

... read T-blog [my director's notes] -- subscribe :

Total Actor & Total Director Files

Did you read Director pages in Acting1 and acting3 ?

... Director & Directing in Theatre Theory [ Theory of Directing ]

... "new theories" in --

meyerhold.us ? stagematrix.com ?

... why I am a director [ theatre with anatoly ] -- "director" pages in Acting Directories*.

Caligari experience : T-blog

Director's Notes : Actor as Puppet [concept]

Film Acting Techniques

Director as Camera

Godot directs Caligari : invisible creator

{*} ... Director's Mind, Directions and Actor's choices : I have pages/chapters on DIRECTOR in Acting 1, 3, Total Actor!

Acting 2 : Artaud set forth a radical notion of how the actor should prepare and perform...

No-acting acting?

...


* 2008 --

NEW :

direct.vtheatre.net/2 -- directing class [ part 2. Directing Actors ]

NOTES:

... Do you know how to take directions?

... Casting, Rehearsals, Blocking [ "give and take" ]

* Acting2 Finals are with Directing Class [ calendar ]

2009 : Bear or Durang?

Steps, preparations for FINALS


... Director gives "directions", second layer as in the script (playwright's stage direction); so the costumer, set and lighting designer... so your partners on stage.

stage [W] -- "The stage itself has been given named areas to facilitate the precise movement and positioning of actors on a stage". [ Blocking is a theatre term which refers to the precise movement and positioning of actors on a stage in order to facilitate the performance of a play, ballet, film or opera. The term derives from the practice of 19th Century theatre directors such as Sir W. S. Gilbert who worked out the staging of a scene on a miniature stage using blocks to represent each of the actors. ]

* on "taking notes":

... have your script with you!

* use the back for general notes

* margins for emotions (left), motion (right)

* check with the bible (stage manager)

* ask questions (write them down and talk when director say "questions?")

* consult with your partner(s)

* notes from stage manager

* costumer

...

acting


director

final scenes with students-directors...

you -- partner -- director

director as spectator

you -- director -- you

director as mirror

film acting ?

... Meyerhold: ACTOR = Director + Medium [another interpretation of Actor's Formula]

Part 3. Stage + Part 4. Public : you and director

Director is a professional spectator!

... Director ACTS : how to read Director's Mind?

Actora -- DIRECTOR -- Actorb

Other Director's pages in Acting 1 and Acting 3 [list/menu]

Directors are from Mars, Actors are from Venus

Boss or Partner?

Who is first and many "marriages" of actor [ play, character, director ]

... your work and their "business" [ on stage and off ]

Homework -- what to expect and what is expected from you.

... google.com/group/directing [ class & archives ]

Theory of Directing -- filmplus.org/thr

Director's responsibility is SHOW, actor's -- ROLE. Their meeting space -- CHARACTER.

Friends or Enemies?

Both.

Love-Hate relations.

Director "uses" actors, as actors use playwright.

PC tells - collaboration, Real Politik -- struggle.

Why it should be seen as FIGHT?

Conflict is the essence of dramatic, confrontation (not personal) is the only true link; they should have different interests... and director and actor do have them, different goals.

... Film and Biomechanics:

directing.filmplus.org and Total Actor

... "Caligari Moments" in class [ progress-process ]

genre
pomo.vtheatre.net/2008 : caligari 1,2,3 ... and slideshow

Rehearsals : How do I work with actors?

From 2009

As one directing/acting class in Ethiopia [two classes in one?]? -- academe [ new film-north directory ] ANT