StanislavskyStanislavsky:Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, he was born in 1863 17th January and he died 7th August 1938 aged 75. He was a theatre director *Actor* theatre theorist. His literary movement was Naturalism, Psychological realism and Socialist realism. His notable work (s), founder of the Moscow art theatre, an actor's work, my life in art. His spouse (s) Maria Potrovna, Perevostchikova (stage name) Maria Liliana.
By the age of 25, Stanislavski was well known as an armature actor. He made a proposal to Fyodor Sollogub and Alexander Fedotov to establish a society that would unite amateur and a professional actors and artists. Stanislavski proposed that actors study and experience emotions and feeling so that they are able to show it to the audience by the way they use the emotions. He included concentration, voice, physical skills, emotion memory, observation and dramatic analysis. He treated theatre making as a serious endeavour, requiring dedication, discipline and integrity.
Theatre Techniques
-Flash forward/ flash back
-Conscience corridor
-Sound-scarping
-Role-On-The-Wall
-Physical theatre
-Split focus
-Cross cutting
-Tableaux (a.k.a freeze frame)
-Mime
-Slow motion
-Choral speech
-Choral movement
-Clocking the audience
-Still image
-Slap stick
-Thought tracking
-Exaggerated movement
-Spoofing
Both Of My Monologues
I have been doing my monologues for about a week now, I have been learning it part by part. I go over and over one section for about an hour and then I do the same with the next section, once I have done that I say it all the
parts that I have done and go over them to make sure I know it after I have done that I try to say it without the words to see if I have remembered it all. The next time i try to do I will do the next section and go over that and then I would go through all of the piece and I will make sure I know all the words and then after I will do it about five times to make sure I know the words off by heart and then I would a have about an hour possible two hours and then I would got back to it to see if I remember it about two hours later.
After I have done my monologue all the way through I would start to make actions to it to make it more realistic, I would use the text to make my movements, I would make sure they are rehearsed and I will go through with the actions while going through the monologue and i will make sure the words and the actions fit together and to see if the piece has improved.
Once I have finished all of monologue one I would go through the next monologue and do the same as i did with the first monologue and make it look better then the first one so that the last one can be my strongest monologue, I will use so much emotion and make sure I am in the moment and think that 'this is my monologue, I did this, and I'm going to own it'. and then hopefully it will look like I am the real character and put my heart and soul into the performance (s).
After all of that I will read through both of them one after the other about three times and make sure I know all the words and the actions too so that it will look better, once I finished both of then I would show it to my mum and dad and see what their feedback is and if its good then it will stay the same but if they suggest I will think about it and see if it fits into the piece and I would think about adding or taking something away to make it better and not boring.
The monologues are going very well using more technique, need to work on movement and voice projection, it is starting to look more realistic with my tone of voice, body image and facial expressions.
I need to start to make a story out of my movement and facial expressions and that will give the audience something to look at and be interested in.
Brecht (Bertolt Brecht)
Brecht was a German poet, playwright and theatre director. He was a influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century.
When he was 16, The First World War broke out. Initially enthusiastic, Brecht soon changed his mind on seeing his classmates "swallowed by the army". On his father's recommendation, Brecht sought a loophole by registering for an additional medical course at Munich University, where he enrolled in 1917. There he studied drama with Arthur Kutscher, who inspired in the young Brecht an admiration for the iconoclastic dramatist and cabaret-star Frank Wedekind.
From July 1916, Brecht's newspaper articles began appearing under the new name "Bert Brecht". Brecht was drafted into military service in the autumn of 1918, only to be posted back to Augsburg as a medical orderly in a military VD clinic and then the world war ended a month later.
In July 1919, Brecht and Paula Banhozler (that began a relationship in 1917) had a son and call him Frank. In 1920 Brecht's mother died.
In 1932 Brecht married the Viennese opera-singer Marianna Zoff. They had a child in 1923 before they got married, (it was a girl) and they called her Hanne Hiob, later on in Hanne's life she became a successful German actress. In 1923 Brecht's marriage to Zoff began to break down (though they did not divorce until 1927). Brecht had become involved with both Elizabeth Hauptmann and Helene Weigel. Brecht and Weigel's son, Stefan Brecht, was born in October 1924. when Stefan grew up he became a born American poet, critic and scholar of theatre.
In 1930 Brecht married Weigel; they had a daughter that was also born not so long after their wedding, they called her Barbara Brecht. She also became an actress and currently holds the
copyrights to all of Brecht's (her father) work.
Brecht died it August 1956 (twenty-six years after his last child and after his last poem 'Die Losung') he died of a heart attack at the age of 58. He was then buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery on Chausseestraße in the Mitte neighbourhood of Berlin, overlooked by the residence he shared with Helene Weigel.
