{"title":"Clive Barker and his Legacy: Theatre Workshop and Theatre Games <b>Clive Barker and his Legacy: Theatre Workshop and Theatre Games</b> , edited by Paul Fryer & Nesta Jones, London, Bloomsbury, 2022, £75 (hardback)","authors":"Howard Gayton","doi":"10.1080/20567790.2023.2259717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2023.2259717","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40821,"journal":{"name":"Stanislavski Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135148665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Stanislavsky–Grotowski lineage: Part II","authors":"Virginie Magnat","doi":"10.1080/20567790.2023.2246998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2023.2246998","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The connection between Konstantin Stanislavsky and Jerzy Grotowski is often overlooked or underplayed because there are substantial distinctions between them in terms of practices and approaches. In Part I of this essay, I examine Grotowski’s reflections on Stanislavsky’s final experiments, which the Polish director considered to constitute the culmination of the System, as well as the starting point for his own work at the Laboratory Theatre. In Part II, I explore the implications of the Stanislavsky-Grotowski lineage and its legacy for contemporary performance research by relating Stanislavsky’s idiosyncratic usage of the term perezhivanie, translated by Martin Kurten as “conscious experience,” to the neuroscientific investigation of embodied experience, discussed by Rhonda Blair, and to Grotowski’s own conception of consciousness as a form of embodied awareness. I then focus on a crucial point of convergence between the Russian and Polish directors’ respective approaches lying beyond the purview of neuroscience, namely, the correlation between the physical and the spiritual, prompting Sharon Carnicke to invent the neologism “physiospiritual.” I infer that the legacy of the Stanislavsky-Grotowski lineage consists in an expanded notion of perezhivanie that I relate to philosopher Alva Noë’s phenomenological understanding of the interrelation of consciousness and experience.","PeriodicalId":40821,"journal":{"name":"Stanislavski Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"141 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83478732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vladimír Gamza: the comedian’s system","authors":"M. Musilová","doi":"10.1080/20567790.2023.2196307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2023.2196307","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT It is well known that after 1918 the newly founded Czechoslovakia became an asylum for thousands of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian emigrants. Among the exiles we find former members of the MAT and its First Studio. Kachalov’s Group in Prague is a well-known example. This was also a period of significant repatriation of a number of Czechoslovaks settled in Russia. Among them was Vladimír Gamza (1902–29), an admirer of the First Studio, who attempted to implement its programme in Czechoslovakia by setting up the Czech Studio (1924–5 season) and the Art Studio (1926–7). Gamza quickly developed a passion for Russian modernist theatre, which he was exposed to until he was 17. His direct experience of Russian theatre is linked to the pre-revolutionary period. In this essay I will discuss how we can trace a partial knowledge of the Stanislavsky System in his work and its reflection.","PeriodicalId":40821,"journal":{"name":"Stanislavski Studies","volume":"92 1","pages":"33 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85673942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A screen actor prepares: Self-taping by reversing Stanislavsky’s Method of Physical Actions","authors":"Evi Stamatiou","doi":"10.1080/20567790.2023.2196297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2023.2196297","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The popularity of streaming services, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, reinforced the understanding that screen acting skills should be prioritized, prompting a reimagining of Stanislavsky’s practices to address the needs of the contemporary actor and acting graduate. Screen actors are expected to self-tape using digital technologies to showcase their acting skills independently. This indicates a growing demand for self-reflective abilities on what works or doesn’t work in recorded performances. Aspiring to develop lifelong learning screen actors, this essay argues that Konstantin Stanislavsky’s Method of Physical Actions can be reversed for generating findings from acclaimed screen performances to use in self-taping. The reverse Method of Physical Actions proposes that physical scores are artefacts that can be objectively broken down into psycho-physical gestures and character behaviours that can be appropriated for self-taping etudes, and analysed when reflecting on self-tapes, fostering an ongoing embodied understanding of how acting choices work on screen. The breakdown and examination of two scenes portraying Helen Mirren in The Queen (2006) and Viola Davis in Fences (2016) illustrate how the Method of Physical Actions can be rediscovered for do-it-yourself screen acting. This essay helps actors, students and actor trainers to understand how acclaimed actors create outstanding screen performances.","PeriodicalId":40821,"journal":{"name":"Stanislavski Studies","volume":"424 1","pages":"63 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84935316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The actor as a tourist in a new city","authors":"Michael Holdsworth","doi":"10.1080/20567790.2023.2196298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2023.2196298","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay is a series of wistful musings born from provocations, new translations and exciting discoveries made whilst attending The S Word Symposium in Prague in November 2022. This autoethnographic essay compares the discoveries made by a tourist exploring a new city, to that of an actor as they begin their process of discovering a new role through the lens of Stanislavsky’s, and those that followed, thoughts.","PeriodicalId":40821,"journal":{"name":"Stanislavski Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"99 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75427869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The S Word, in partnership with the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts of the Edith Cowan University, Perth/Boorloo, Western Australia","authors":"P. Fryer","doi":"10.1080/20567790.2023.2196178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2023.2196178","url":null,"abstract":"Stanislavski was clear that the actor must take their place in the theatre. His writings are full of injunctions to reflexively situate oneself with respect to the stage, set, actors, objectives, and so on. Echoing Stanislavski’s conceptual and physical praxis, modernist performance makers such as Meyerhold and Schlemmer went on to postulate that the actor brought their own sense of place onto the stage, shaping the performance space and enabling performer to align themselves, their attention, and their movements to a range of axial placements and combinations, as in Laban’s kinesphere. Later theatre makers as varied as David Donnellan and Suzuki Tadashi have suggested that the theatre is a place of life-and-death struggle, a site where a battle for survival is conducted by both characters and the actors themselves.","PeriodicalId":40821,"journal":{"name":"Stanislavski Studies","volume":"96 1","pages":"119 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85245417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The S Word, in partnership with The Theatre Studies Department of The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/20567790.2023.2196176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2023.2196176","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40821,"journal":{"name":"Stanislavski Studies","volume":"111 3S 1","pages":"117 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76986846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Music, singing, word, action”: the Opera-Dramatic Studio 1935–1938","authors":"M. Shevtsova","doi":"10.1080/20567790.2023.2196294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2023.2196294","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Central preoccupations of Stanislavsky’s theatre practice and thought involve continuous laboratory explorations, revisions and developments. What emerges as new at one time is constantly renewed, indicating that his work of perpetual change raises the question as to what actually were the defining achievements of the Opera-Dramatic Studio. This was the last of the seven studios that Stanislavsky founded and led, or encouraged and protected under the flagship of the Moscow Art Theatre as he taught to varying degrees in each. The discussion here rejects the commonplace idea that Stanislavsky discovered the “method of physical action” in the closing years of his life, showing earlier avatars of “physical action” while unfolding its different but interconnected aspects, including “word action.” Stanislavsky’s comprehensive approach to acting together with his intensive research on the actor-singer, music, movement, vocalization and other components that bind opera and dramatic theatre gave the Opera-Dramatic Studio its unique identity.","PeriodicalId":40821,"journal":{"name":"Stanislavski Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"3 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84536641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hear, Now, Today: Active Analysis for the working actor:A “special guest workshop” delivered at The S Word, Prague, 12 November 2022","authors":"Bella Merlin","doi":"10.1080/20567790.2023.2196312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2023.2196312","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In November 2022, The S Word symposium was hosted at DAMU, Prague, under the title 'Stanislavsky's Last Words'. Bella Merlin conducted a practical workshop on the 'constant state of inner improvisation' that underpins Stanislavsky's final rehearsal practice, Active Analysis, along with the vital role of 'dynamic listening' between actors. This paper is an account of that workshop, writing in an autoethnographic style and taking the reader through the improvisations and exercises as if present at the workshop. Merlin notes her training in Active Analysis at the State Institute of Cinematography, Moscow, in the early 1990s and her book Beyond Stanislavsky: The Psycho-Physical Approach to Acting (NHB 2001) as arguably the first hands-on account of Active Analysis in the UK. The 'line of thought' (discovered through textual analysis) and the 'line of action' (discovered through improvisations) link together to create a production through the process of Active Analysis. Stanislavsky's tools of the 'six fundamental questions', 'grasp', 'objectives' (or problems and tasks), and the essential feeling of 'now, today, here' as the raw material for creating roles are explored, along with identifying the scene's main 'event' and uncovering a simple 'score of physical actions'. The dramatic dialogue used is an open scene from Dave Kost's Books of Sides II (Routledge 2017). The overarching tool for the workshop is obshcheniye: community or 'communion'.","PeriodicalId":40821,"journal":{"name":"Stanislavski Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"81 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87181919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}