THINGS I ABSORBED, THOUGHT ABOUT, LEARNED, READ OR HEARD THIS SUMMER.
To tell YOUR truth sincerely is the pitiful pretension of what we call theatre. To lie with ABSOLUTE sincerity is the euphoria of the ART of the theatre. – Let us stop confusing our truth with art’s truth. If simple theatre reproduces life, then the art of theatre inherently must invent real life, this invention is a direct criticism of the poverty of existence most […]
A bit of history
Nikolay Vasilyevich Demidov’s third book “The Art of Living on Stage” is a culmination of his forty years of theatrical and pedagogical work. Initially conceived as a single book, Demidov’s work expanded into a planned series of five books. Before his death in 1953, he completed three of these books, while the remaining two existed […]
THE FOUR VIRTUES: VIRTUE NUMBER TWO
By Cameron Thor and Kimon Fioretos Completeness of Action Completeness of Action invites the actor to become thorough, thoughtful, and resolved in their body and their body’s relationship to its surroundings. To master both the root and boundary of movement. In the character’s physical life, the actor will apply “complete” both as an adjective: “having no […]
Irene Worth to students of an acting class
For thought:
Actor’s freedom Our ability to yield—without restrictions and without inhibitions—to the reflexive reactions that arise from our interaction and perception of the environment (both internal and external), with the imaginary (imagination/memory), and with language/thought.
Why Does Acting Feel So Different Now?
This video is detailed “enough”, but it fails to mention names like : Michael Chekhov, Vakhtangov, Demidov, or people like M.Knebel etc. It also fails to understand many topics (especially how the system was delivered, how, when and into what, it progressed, and the difference between naturalism, realism, and form, as they were mentioned by […]
Peter Brook on the art of acting
Sometimes it’s about the company (ensemble) sometimes it’s about art, sometimes it’s about scales and sometimes it’s about our aim…meaning about a school, a method, a philosophy, a way of collective thinking. “It has long been recognized that without a permanent company (ensemble) few actors can thrive indefinitely. However it must also be faced that […]
Different signals travel on different wave lengths.
When “in the moment,” I must tune myself in a certain way (achieve a certain psycho-physical state), in order to receive creative signals. These precious signals belong to the realm of subtle, “weak currents.” The voice of intuiting is very faint; to hear it, one must be in a state of deep artistic calm, tranquility […]
The illiterate actor of the 21st century and a war against the author and the text.
“Text is the enemy of the actor…” A famous teacher once said…. but a gentleman never tells who… Well ok Meisner said it! yeah, apparently I am not much of a gentleman… Let me be clear text IS YOUR FRIEND! And you know how it goes, introductions matter when you first meet someone. So a friend […]
The love for art and the love for me, me, me.
A phenomena I see is the perpetual love for self in art instead of art for art sake. Stanislavski said it best, when he called out “don’t love yourself in art, but the art inside you”, the problem was in all probability as prevalent then as it is now. I am not saying loving yourself […]
