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I have chosen Stanislavski as the practitioner i wish to base my performance on. Out of the three it interests me the most. Theater of cruelty was a very close second.

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Today Angie had us all lay on the stage in the Theatre and carry out an exercise based on theatre of cruelty techniques.
We were asked to lay down and relax. The lights went out so we were in complete darkness, music and noises were in the background. Alot of screams could be heard as scratches and bangs were made with some people even being grabbed.
I did not feel apprehensive myself s i had in my head that i was in university and nothing bad could come of this. I do however understand why other people were effected by this.

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Theatre of the oppressed.

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TRAILER AUGUSTO BOAL AND THE THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED

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TRAILER AUGUSTO BOAL AND THE THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED TRAILER AUGUSTO BOAL E O TEATRO DO OPRIMIDO DIR.: ZELITO VIANA PRODUÇÃO: MAPA FILMES

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A brazilian theatre director.
Founder of the theatre of the oppressed

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This video dictates what Artaud wanted to capture for his audiences. This almost made me want to change what i wanted to do for my performance

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El teatro de la crueldad 2004 (Theatre of cruelty) (Fiction short film) Germany

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Theatre of cruelty was an idea introduced by Antonin Artaud.
Artaud wished for his audiences not to find escape through the theatre, but for it to be a place of realisation and a place of their worst nightmares,
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Today we had tech rehearsals, we were a litttle unprepared and i myself am feeling not very well. This aside we ran through it and i am very excited to see an end result.I feel this out of everything we have done is going to go well. We connect well as a group and it is a very ejoyable script to work from. Learning the lines has not been too bad. Just a few that aren't sticking in my head. Hopefully with a week to go i can get them locked in my head.

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What do we do??? What do we choose now? Steel magnolias was a wrong decision. We need  to think of something different. Fast!

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There were a few disagreements when it came to what we wanted to do. However we all had very good input into the ideas we have put together

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Setting the mood, what do we want from this performance? do we agree with what we are doing? can we improve on wha we think we should be doing?

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I am going to use things i have experienced on a personal level to enhance my performance. The loss of a loved one, the loss of a child. What i felt, the emotion i experienced during that time. Grief is an emotion that never gets better, it just eases and becomes more managable. I think this has been so easy to relate to as it is a topic that has effected us all.

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Even just after one read through of the script, it is quite apparent we have made the right choice to change the script we are doing. I personally have connected with the script straight away.
I am really very excited about this.

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Me.

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Ashleigh

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Rachael.

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It can be quite difficult to work out the difference between Realism and Naturalism. However there are features said to obvious to help understand.
Realism was a 19th century theatrical movement, its aim was to portray 'real life' on stage, Naturalism is often refered to as the same thing but it can also mean the belief that a human character is formed by what they have bequethed from family and the environment around them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zxn4mp3/revision

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Stanislavski's actual name was Konstantin Sergeyevich Alexeyev, but he later changed this in 1884 to that of hi stage name Stanislavski.
He was born in 1863 and died aged 75 in 1938.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zxn4mp3/revision

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Getting a feel for the script. Finding out what works and what doesn't.
Is what we are doing right? Is this naturalistic??
It is real life. Death effects us all.
Rachael was poorly on this paticular day so we had to work without her. In this rehearsal, we had alot of ideas on what we wanted stage wise and what way we wanted this to come across.

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Our group has 4 members.
Yvette.

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We have chosen to perform the script 'Things i know to be true. Originally performed by the theatre company Frantic Assembly. Some of our group went to Manchester to watch this performed. It is a very hard hitting script with subjects close to heart and things that effect millions on a daily basis with the topic of death being one of those things.

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Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company of South Australia present, Things I Know To Be True, a new play by Andrew Bovell. Watch our trailer for our UK production of Things I Know To Be True, which is touring the UK in Autumn 2016.

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After getting together as a group, reading the script through and getting a feel for it. We decided Steel magnolias was not what we wanted as a group for our performance and decided to look for another script. Although it makes a very good film, when we got to sit down and try it, it just did not work for us. It did not seem very natural

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For the group performance for Introduction to performing arts, myself and my group have chosen Steel magnolias. As a whole we feel it touches on real life situations, realism is what we are aiming for.

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Steel Magnolias (1/8) Movie CLIP - Too Much Insulin (1989) HD

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Steel Magnolias movie clips: http://j.mp/18FO8oT BUY THE MOVIE: http://amzn.to/v5bEJh Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: When Shelby (Julia Roberts) suffers a diabetic attack at the salon owned by Truvy (Dolly Parton), M'Lynn (Sally Field) gives her daughter juice and tells Clairee (Olympia Dukakis) and Annelle (Daryl Hannah) that Shelby will be unable to have children.

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Muscular relaxation was a starting point for all Stanisklavski's work. So as soon as you realise that physical reaxation liberates your imagination.
(Merlin.2003:118)

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Today we were asked to sit and observe people without their knowledge. We went down stairs and picked who we thought would be interesting subjects.
How would they move and  what were their reactions to things? I found this a very interesting challenge as i like to people watch.
I chose a boy who was sat in the college cafeteria. The boy who i chose often had me sniggering to myself. His emotions, i thought, were up and down. one minute his face was scowling, the next he was sat day dreaming to himself.
Sat furiously texting on his phone, his brow would scrunch up, he put his phone down and his mood instantly lifted and started listening to music.
I found it quite ammusing watching him as he played the imaginary drums, smiling to himself and getting lost in the music oblivious to the fact he was being observed.

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Today our tutor Angie used stanisklavski's exercise called belief,  to  trick us into believing she had lost her wedding ring. We walked in to the theatre to be greeted by an eager angie. As a group we noticed something was amiss and asked if everything was okay? Angie explained she had misplaced the wedding ring her husband gave her and was visibly upset. I think a few people felt a little uncomfortable, but feelings aside we all started to help look for the wedding ring. We did this for around 20 minutes. I thought it would be helpfull to go downstairs and alert the front desk that the ring had gone missing and could people keep an eye out for it. Angie then put a stop to the exercise, telling us all it was one of Stanislavski's methods.
As a whole i think we were all very relieved.
This exercise was so convincing and natural. We all instantly wanted to help, i myself instantly felt empathetic and wanted to help.
Another thouroughly enjoyable exercise, even if it made us all panic stricken.

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Widely regarded as the top in his field of contemporary acting.
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