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Modernist Theatre

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Modernist theatre includes works considered as naturalist, symbolist, surrealist, futurist, Dadaist or expressionist, by writers such as Ibsen and Strindberg, created between the 1880s and the 1930s.


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Peter Hall discusses the West End theatre of the 1950s, antipathy towards the RSC coming to London to perform, and the staging of the first English production of Waiting for Godot and its aftermath.
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In which Prof. Smeliansky outlines the importance of Stanislavsky’s work in the history of Russian theatre, including Stanislavsky’s relation to Chekhov, Gordon Craig, Meyerhold and others.
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Brecht: Survival and Contradiction
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Although best known as a playwright, Brecht was a highly original poet. His poems tell us much about his plays, not least his advocacy of survival in a context of resistance to oppression.
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Directions for Directing—Directing Shakespeare at “Hamlet’s Castle”
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Lars Romann Engel, artistic director of “HamletScenen,” in conversation with Dr. Anne Sophie Refskou, lecturer at University of Surrey, describes his process of working on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He analyzes the process of working with the text and understanding the context of the play and its significance today. The interview took place in Elsinore, Denmark, in August 2017.
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This video features snapshots from two different directing workshops conducted in October 2017 with two groups of directing students at RESAD (Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid) in Madrid, Spain. The workshops focused on strategies of recontextualization of classical works and of determining directorial point-of-view.  
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Directions for Directing. Theatre and Method—Making Robot Theatre
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This video presentation features playwright and director Oriza Hirata’s concept of robot theatre. Making Robot Theatre: An interview with Oriza Hirata of Tokyo-based Seinendan. 
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This interview sees Jean Benedetti discussing some of the main precepts of Stanislavsky’s work, including Stanislavsky’s relation to Chekhov, Shchepkin, Meyerhold and others.
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This video captures a typical progression in Levinsky’s teaching of biomechanics, from work with sticks to footwork, balance and simple twirling skills, culminating in a demonstration of solo études.
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A film about Michael Chekhov. Part one covers his early years, family, upbringing, drama school and the beginning of his acting career at the Moscow Art Theatre.
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Zarrilli’s Psychophysical Acting methodology focuses on the relationship between the actor-as-doer and what the actor does. It (re)examines in practice and theory a psychophysical approach to acting.
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This piece, conceived and directed by Seyferth, is based on Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms.
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The Stanislavski Centre Annual Lecture sees a major international figure lecturing based upon their own expertise in the field of Stanislavsky studies every year – in this case, Anatoly Smeliansky.
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Zarrilli’s Psychophysical Acting methodology focuses on the relationship between the actor-as-doer and what the actor does. It (re)examines in practice and theory a psychophysical approach to acting.
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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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by McPherson, Katrina


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