Form & Genre
Naturalism & Realism
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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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In this film, Frayn talks about the nature of live performance, the role of the audience in creating the performance, about creating characters and writing historical drama.
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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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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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The third episode of After My Life in Art, originally broadcast by The Culture Channel, Russia
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The fourth episode of After My Life in Art, originally broadcast by The Culture Channel, Russia
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The fifth episode of After My Life in Art, originally broadcast by The Culture Channel, Russia
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MaKuYa Festival is an art festival which highlights the traditions and cultural
aspects of a three tribes consortium.
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Michael Chekhov's final years living, acting, and writing in the United States.
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The First Studio becomes an independent theatre with Michael Chekhov as its artistic director.
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Chekhov in one of signature roles, Muromsky in The Case.
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Michael Chekhov goes to German and meets with Stanislavsky in Berlin and discussion between their different views on acting techniques.
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The pre-war years and Michael Chekhov moves his studio moved to a similar location in the United States.
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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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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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An interview lasting almost two hours, covering the extraordinary breadth of Mike Alfreds’s experience as a theatre director working across different decades, cultures and continents.
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by McPherson, Katrina
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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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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.