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2005 Anatoly *
Fall 2003 -- Spring 2004: 5 Approaches to Acting (textbook for Acting 121), David Kaplan + Second Part -- Acting II *
Part I. Task (Method)
Chapter 1. Stanislavsky
Chapter 2. Obstacles
Chapter 3. Stanislavsky's Legacy
Part II. Episodes
Chapter 4. Brecht
Chapter 5. Combining Episodes
Chapter 6. Meyerhold
Part III. Images
Chapter 7. Masks
Chapter 8. The Language of Mask
Part IV. The World of the Play
Chapter 9. Comparison
Chapter 10. Rules
Part V. Telling a Story
Chapter 11. Storytelling
Chapter 12. Dramatic Action
Chapter 13. Shakespeare
Part VI. Comparing Approaches
Chapter 14. Comparing
Chapter 15. Choosing an Approach
Chapter 16. Combining Approaches
[ I hyperlinked some titles of the chapters with my existing pages on the subjects ]
"BioMX Theory for Actors" (2003): Actors on Acting (textbook)new: Vsevolod Meyerhold by Jonathan Pitches, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK[ late-19th century/early 20th century ideas about physical plasticity are those by and about Emile Jaques-Dalcroze and "eurhythmics" or 'rhythmique.' (In particular, Jo Penningington's book, "The Importance of Being Rhythmic") ]
Recommended Reading: Robert Barton's STYLE FOR ACTORS (Mayfield Press). [ list ]
Meyerhold the Director by Konstantin Rudnitsky
Russian and Soviet Theatre: Tradition and the Avant-Garde by Konstantin Rudnitsky, et al. Paperback (June 2000)
Meyerhold at Work by Paul Schmidt
Vsevolod Meyerhold (Directors in Perspective) by Robert Leach (Preface)
The Theatre of Meyerhold and Brecht by Katherine Bliss Eaton Drama and Theatre Studies, Contributions in, No. 19 (ISSN: 0163-3821) Greenwood Press. Westport, Conn. 1985. 142 pages LC 85-9910. ISBN 0-313-24590-8. EMB/ $49.95
Meyerhold on Theatre, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Edward Braun (Translator)
Meyerhold: a Revolution in Theatre, Edward Braun
This anthology brings together Vsevolod Meyerhold's most significant writings and utterances and covers his entire career as a theatre director from 1902 until 1939. It contains unabridged translations from the original Russian, updated and supplemented with a critical commentary.The Twentieth Century Performance Reader, Edited by Mike Huxley and Noel Witts, both of De Montfort University
MEYERHOLD AND BRECHT, Katherine Bliss Eaton * Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies, Number 19 GREENWOOD PRESS Westport, Connecticut · London, England
meyerhold.us All About Method Acting by Ned Manderino
On the Technique of Acting; The First Complete Edition of Chekhov's Classic to the Actor by Chekhov, Michael
Acting; A Handbook of the Stanislavski Method by: Cole, Toby
Sanford Meisner on Acting by Meiser, Sanford
Vsevolod Meyerhold is one of the most controversial figures in the history of the Russian theatre, noted for the richness and diversity of his work and his fascination with the grotesque. In this compact volume, Jonathan Pitches traces Meyerhold's development through his experiments with realism, symbolism, constructivism and futurism and follows the political pressures, which forced his decline and silence as an artist. Pitches brings together for the first time:
•a biographical introduction to Meyerhold's life •a clear explanation of his theoretical writings •an analysis of his masterpiece production Revisor, or The Government Inspector •a comprehensive and useable description of the 'biomechanical' exercises he developed for actor training.
August 2003: 198x129: 176pp: illus. 13 b+w photographs hb: 0-415-25883-9: Pb: 0-415-25884-7:
At Work with Grotowski on Physical Actions by Thomas Richards and Jerzy Grotowski
Twentieth-Century Theatre: A Sourcebook by Richard Drain; Routledge, 1995 [questia]
PREFACE
This is a collection of writings on theatre by those involved in theatre, whether as directors, performers, writers or designers. It is concerned with significant innovations in modern stage practice; and aims to illuminate the ideas behind them. Its span is wide: from the onset of this century to the present. So it cannot hope to be comprehensive, and has no illusion of being so. Numerous important figures are omitted, and it deals with five aspects of theatre only. These five aspects, however, have had deep and lasting importance, and offer perspectives into a range of key developments throughout the period. [...]
Part I: The Modernist Dimension
Part II: The Political Dimension
Part III: The Popular Dimension
Part IV: The Inner Dimension
Part V: The Global Dimension
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[ some BM relevant ]
23. SERGEI EISENSTEIN
FROM A Personal Statement (1926) (p.87)
25. VSEVOLOD MEYERHOLD
FROM The Reconstruction of the Theatre (1929) (98)
26. ERWIN PISCATOR
FROM Basic Principles of a Theory of Sociological Drama (1929)
1 THE FUNCTION OF MAN
42. VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY
FROM Open Letter to the Workers (1917)
[ full list ]
Italian Futurist Theatre, 1909-1944 Book by Günter Handler Berghaus; Clarendon Press, 1998
Enemies: A Russian Love Story; Meyerhold and Stanislavsky, the Two Opposing Titans of Russian Theatre, Are the Seeds for Renewal and Reawakening in Today's Moscow
Magazine article by Lawrence Sacharow; American Theatre, Vol. 21, January 2004
The Fall and Rise of Meyer Holo
Magazine article by David Chambers, Nikolai Pesochinsky; American Theatre, Vol. 17, January 2000
Meyerhold, Vsevolod
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2004
The Theater of Meyerhold and Brecht by Katherine Bliss Eaton; Greenwood Press, 1985 [ quotes @ biomechanics.vtheatre.net ]
... Many of Meyerhold's theoretical writings and pronouncements have been translated into English by Edward Braun in Meyerhold on Theatre. Many of Brecht's theoretical writings are available in English in John Willett translations: Brecht on Theatre and The Messingkauf Dialogues. English translations of Brecht's plays are listed in the bibliography to Ronald Hayman Brecht, p. 408.
Brecht: A Collection of Critical Essays by Peter Demetz; Prentice-Hall, 1962
References (Russian sources. Not translated?)
Всеволод Эмильевич Мейерхольд http://meyerhold.theatre.ru/meyerhold/bio
Vsevolod Meyerhold
... Меня здесь били — больного шестидесятишестилетнего старика, клали на пол лицом вниз, резиновым жгутом били по пяткам и по спине, когда сидел на стуле, той же резиной били по ногам (сверху, с большой силой) и по местам от колен до верхних частей ног. И в следующие дни, когда эти места ног были залиты обильным внутренним кровоизлиянием, то по этим красно-синим-желтым кровоподтекам снова били этим жгутом, и боль была такая, что казалось на больные чувствительные места ног лили крутой кипяток (я кричал и плакал от боли). Меня били по спине этой резиной, меня били по лицу размахами с высоты”... [ Статья: Сухой голос трагедии ]
МЕЙЕРХОЛЬД Всеволод Эмильевич (09. 02. 1874 — 02. 02. 1940), театральный актер и режиссер.
Vsevolod Meyerhold by Jonathan Pitches, Franc Chamberlain (Editor) Routledge; (December 2003) ISBN: 0415258847
Braun, Edward, ed., Meyerhold on Theatre, London, 1969.
Braun, Edward, The Theatre of Meyerhold. London, 1979.
Deeak, Frantisek, ‘The Agit-Prop and Circus Plays of Vladimir Mayakovsky’, The Drama Review, 17:1 (1973), 47-52.
Dйak, Frantisek, ‘Russian Mass Spectacles’, The Drama Review, 19:2 (1975), 7-22.
Eaton, Katherine Bliss, The Theater of Meyerhold and Brecht, Greenwood Press, 1985.
Evreinoff , Nicolas, The Theatre in Life, London, 1927.
Gray, Camilla, The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922, London, 1962.
Hedgbeth, Llewellyn H., ‘Meyerhold’s D.E.’, the Drama Review, 19:2 (1975), 23-36.
Hoover, Marjorie L. , Meyerhold: The Art of Conscious Theatre, Amhurst, 1974.
Kleberg, Lars and Nils-Ake Nilsson, Theatre and Literature in Russia, 1900-1930 Stockholm, 1984.
Leach, Robert, Meyerhold, Cambridge, 1989.
Leach, Robert, Revolutionary Theatre, London, 1994.
Marshall, Herbert, The Pictorial History of the Russian Theatre, New York, 1977.
Moody, C., ‘Meyehold and the Commedia dell’arte’, Modern Language Review, 73:4 (1978), 859-869.
Rudnitskii, Konstantin, Russian and Soviet Theatre: Tradition and the Avant-Garde, London, 1988.
Russell, Robert, Russian Drama of the Revolutionary Period, London, 1988.
Schmidt, Paul, ed., Meyerhold at Work, Manchester, 1981.
Symons, James, Meyerhold's Theatre of the Grotesque, 1920-32, Florida, 1971.
Worall, Nick, ‘Meyerhold's Production of The Magnificent Cuckold’, The Drama Review, 19:2 (1975),
Worall, Nick, ‘Meyerhold Directs Gogol's Government Inspector’, Theatre Quarterly, 2 (1972), 75-95.
Worall, Nick, Modernism to Realism on the Soviet Stage: Tairov, Vakhtangov, Okhlopkov, Cambridge, 1989.
http://www.peoples.ru/art/theatre/producer/meyerhold:
Окончил Музыкально-драматическое училище Московского филармонического общества (1898) и был принят в труппу МХТ. До 1920 — режиссер различных театров, с 1920 — руководитель Театра РСФСР (первого), с 1923 — театром В. Э. Мейерхольда, руководителем Высших режиссерских мастерских (ГВЫРМ), где начинали свой творческий путь С. Эйзенштейн, И. Ильинский, Э. Гарин, Е. Габрилович, С. Юткевич, И. Пырьев и другие. Незаконно репрессирован.
Народный артист Республики (1923).
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More and more I use film terminology in BM class; simple as CU and MS frame -- or more complex, like line of action, axis of tention.
The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud [ABRIDGED]
by Jacques Derrida, Paule Thevenin (Contributor), Mary Ann Caws (Translator)
Banham, M (ed) (1988) The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre, Cambridge UP, Cambridge
Braun, E (1981) Meyerhold on Theatre, Eyre Methuen, London
Braun, E (1986) The Theatre of Meyerhold, Methuen, London
Huxley, M & Witts, N (1996) The Twentieth Century Performance Reader, Routledge, London
Leach, R (1993) Vsevelod Meyerhold, Cambridge UP, Cambridge
Schmidt, P (1996) Meyerhold at Work, Applause, New York
Meyerhold and Early Twentieth-Century Russian Theatre (list)
http://www.uea.ac.uk/eas/teaching/pgunits/modernistdrama04.shtml
What Is Theatre? : Incorporating The Dramatic Event and Other Reviews, 1944-1967 What Is Theatre?, originally published in 1968, collects all of Eric Bentley's theater criticism. Bentley's most productive years as a reviewer coincided with some of the greatest years of twentieth-century drama. His essays cover the premieres of works by T. S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Jean Anouilh, and Arthur Miller, among others, as well as subjects as far-ranging as Charlie Chaplin and the Peking Opera--and each contains insights that are still relevant. What Is Theatre? is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding what our American theater has been, is now, and could become.
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2005-2006 Theatre UAF Season: Four Farces + One Funeral & Godot'06
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