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Knebel, Maria

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Actor, director, teacher, author of six books and pioneer of ‘Active Analysis’, Maria Osipovna Knebel is arguably the most influential figure in 20th-century Russian theatre, after Stanislavski.


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Bella Merlin’s practical presentation uses Stanislavsky’s Six Fundamental Questions to contextualise a demonstration of ‘practice as research’ riffing off his work, as well as Maria Knebel’s.
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Mike Alfreds is a director who has run companies in the US, Israel and the UK – including Shared Experience, which he founded in 1975 – and worked at theatres including the National and the RSC.
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Phillip Zarrilli, Professor of Drama at Exeter University, is internationally known for training actors using a psychophysical process combining yoga and the Asian martial arts, and as a director.
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In theatre, naturalism and realism refer specifically to the representation of real life on stage, using believable characters, narrative action and plot, to mimetically holding up a mirror to nature.


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