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Here is a Brechtian play. In the first few minutes some drunks out in the street are involved in an attack; straight after fun and lively music was played and everyone began to dance, this technique is called the V- effect or distancing effect.

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Fear and Misery of the Third Reich - AS Drama, FULL MARKS

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The fourth wall is an imaginary wall in theatre. On a stage there are three walls because the audience are sitting 'in the fourth wall'. Brecht would often break the fourth wall in his plays to distance the audience from the characters. This distracts the audience from empathizing with characters so they focus on the information that is being pushed through the performance.

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The advantages of this interview is it gives an element of real life when they talk about their families.
The disadvantages of this interview is not everyone can relate to it as not everyone has been/is a soldier or had/has a relative who was/is a soldier

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Epic theatre is the name of the theatre that was created by Bertolt Brecht, a working class man. As Brecht was from Germany and was becoming a playwright around the time of the holocaust, it impacted his work; He used his theatre to tell the audience what was happening during the war in Germany. Brecht got  into some serious trouble as he was revealing government/political secrets.This lead him to be exiled.
Brecht moved to L.A, Hollywood, where he gained credibility. But when the war ended he moved back to his home country, Germany. He later founded 'Berliner Ensemble' in 1949.
Brecht was annoyed about the privileges that upper class had compared to the "lower class", which he was in. This later became the main focus of his plays  and it made people think about social class.
After the war, he had credibility so people began to like his work.
Brecht didn't like Naturalism. His and Stanislavski's work contrasted. Brecht didn't stick to everyone else's opion as he wanted to stand out, he wanted to be different.
He didn't want the audience to become emotionally involved as he wanted to make them think and make a reasoned judgement. The audience had to be separated and leave with facts and information for his work to be successful.

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Bertolt Brecht(1898-1956 was a German theatre practitioner and a theatre playwright. In his earlier life, he studied medicine and served in an army hospital in WW1.

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In one of our lessons we used By-Round-Through. This is an exercise where you and your partner must keep in contact at all times; Then you have to go By your partner, Round your partner and Through. This can be in any order.
This is a video from Frantic Assembly using By-Round-Through. We use this exercise to ensure we keep contact and how we can control it if we wanted to add a story line.

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Masterclass: Building Blocks for Devising by Frantic Assembly | National Theatre

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This is an example of physical theatre. This piece is called "Schizophrenia". This is very powerful because they really control their facial expressions and use it to their advantage; they express their emotions and use their body to show the bond between both characters.

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Bella, Keira, David, Meredith, Jesse, Claire

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Frantic Assembly is a theatre production company. They are notorious for their use of physical theatre. Their aim is to create inspirational, dynamic and memorable theatre.

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Physical theatre is performing using your body and facial expressions. You could use mime or dance.

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In class we have been doing chair duets. My group has three people so we are going to have me and the other do the duet together and then the third will 'pull' me out of the chair and then they will begin their different chair duet. In chair duets you must keep physical contact nearly all off the time. This can show the bonding of the two characters and expose what type of relationship they have. Facial expressions also have a big part in chair duets, it shows how your character feel towards the other character. This video is an example of chair duets. In the video, both the actors have neutral faces which shows us that their characters may not be friends or know each other at all. The Othello cast take part in Chair Duets

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If this girl can cry real tears, anyone can

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If this girl can cry real tears, anyone can

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Amazing acting!! 4 year old teaches acting lesson on " How to cry" (Hilarious Ending)

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Review of Frantic Assembly: Things I Know To Be True.

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Review of Frantic Assembly: Things I Know To Be True.

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After school, our drama class and some other Y10 drama classes watched a recorded, live performance of Things I Know To Be True. In the play, the actors used naturalism and physical theatre to express their characters feelings and personality. I think this was a very good play because it felt real and I could relate to the family in it, with all the arguments but also the times where they were happy, like a normal unbalanced family.
This is a teaser for Things I Know To Be True.

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Things I Know To Be True: Digital Theatre + Show Teaser

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Acting tips on how to use accents in your acting

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Acting tips on how to use accents in your acting

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This video shows how you could use costumes and accents in your acting

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Costumes & Accents- Acting Tips by Audition Portal

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Should you wear a costume or use an accent when going on a Casting Call? In this informative tutorial, Paul Brighton of www.AuditionPortal.com shares helpful insight on wearing appropriate clothing for auditions and touches on the somewhat "iffy" subject of using Accents. Join Paul on Twitter at Audition_Portal and follow our updates daily.

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This video gives us tips on how to bring up emotion from deep within us, in our sad memories and how to cry on demand

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Crying Real Tears - Acting Tips By Audition Portal

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This is my Facebook page for Stanislavski

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Vocal Warm-Up | #3 Opening Up the Voice | National Theatre

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Vocal Warm-Up | #2 Resonance | National Theatre

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Here are some videos that show how to control breathing, the resonance of the voice and the opening of the voice.

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Vocal Warm-Up | #1 Breathing | National Theatre

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Our drama class went to the Lyric Hammersmith to watch the play The Seagull. This play was about a unrequited love. i think this was very good play because the acting was very naturalistic and it all seamed very real to me.  Here are a series of photos that are from the play.

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Role and responsibilities of a "naturalistic theatre" actor

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Role and responsibilities of a "naturalistic theatre" actor

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A naturalistic actor has to use their emotion to create a realistic performance. For example, lets say your cat died two weeks ago; you can input that into a character that, for example, has just lost their son. They both share the same "emotion" because they have both lost something that was very persona to them. Or even you don't have to share the same kind of emotion but it does have to be similar in a way like if the character has to be sad then find a sad memory, deep in your mind to use for the sadness of the character.                            This is a  video about how to become the character and how to make it realistic.

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Role and responsibilities of a " naturalistic" director

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Role and responsibilities of a " naturalistic" director

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Here is a little video about one of my personal favourite directors which talks about Spielberg's top ten rules for being a successful director; on top of that a director has to have good organization skills.

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Steven Spielberg's Top 10 Rules For Success

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He's an American director, producer, screenwriter and editor. He's considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era. He has an estimated net worth of US$3.6 billion. He's Steven Spielberg and here are his Top 10 Rules for Success. $$$$ CHECK OUT MY BOOK $$$$ Some used the ideas in this book to build multi-billion-dollar businesses.

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Goodnight Mr Tom: evaluation on naturalism

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Goodnight Mr Tom: evaluation on naturalism

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1) The purpose of this scene is to inform and entertain. It tells us that this old man called Mr Tom is not only impatient but grumpy too.

2) There are two issues thatare tackled here. These are war and child abuse.

3) My character’s super objective in this scene is to seek out a good relationship with Mr Tom. In my performance I made this clear by almost exploring Tom's house as I walk in but when he looks at William I jump back into a "good boy" and show my best behavior towards him.

4) My character’s objective in the scene is to keep safe. My character must ensure this odd man is not dangerous or a threat.

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Who was Constantin Stanislavski?
Constantin Stanislavski was a Russian actor and director/ theatre practitioner who originated a system of acting. His system was called Naturalism. Stanislavski believed that an actor needed a sense of isolation in order to produce a characterisation and avoid unnecessary tension. He created the "Magic If". This is only one element of his method and what this is, is essentially asking yourself, as an actor "What if?". But it must be related to your character or the theme.                  Constantin Stanislavski

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Naturalistic acting is the mirage that portrays an ordinary and natural setting;it wouldn't include drama techniques like thoughts aloud, split scene or slow motion.
Actors would use naturalistic acting to create a sense of real life into the performance. Constantin Stanislavski was a Russian theatre practitioner, his method of acting was naturalism, which he called "The System".
This is a piece of drama where a group of actors like Jake Gyllenhaal, perform as 'soldiers that are being interviewed and they talk about their loved ones at home'.

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can be just IT sometimes. www.anrainerblog.blogspot.com

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My homework on what a performance is. Includes: What is a performance, My favourite performance and why, Other examples of theatre and What actors do on stage.