Stanislavski

Question 1

Stanislavski’s System

Answer 1

-Work on characters from the inside
-Create a more ‘real/true’ performance
-Bring experience into the role
-Expand on actor’s imagination

Question 2

What does ‘analysis of text through actions’ do?

Answer 2

Help the actor understand the main idea of the play

Question 3

What did Stanislavski believe in?

Answer 3

-Natural laws of ability

Question 4

Questions to make sure you think of to build character:

Answer 4

-People in the play?
-Time/period/year?
-What has the playwright told us?
-Location of the play?

Question 5

Adaptation as a technique is:

Answer 5

Allow the actor to communicate subtext

Question 6

Motivation as a technique is:

Answer 6

-Driven by emotion
-The ‘will’ of the actor to perform the given actions
-motivation becomes important in realism

Question 7

Super Objective is:

Answer 7

-Main theme
-Subject
-Everything drives towards this
-All objectives are strung together, through-line can be mapped for characters

Question 8

Subtext is:

Answer 8

-Meaning beneath the text
-not spoken, interpreted by actor through gesture, posture, pauses or action
-clear relationship between subtexts & dialogue + subtext & objective

Question 9

Imagination as a technique is:

Answer 9

-More fertile imagination
-more interesting choices made

Question 10

The Physical apparatus is:

Answer 10

-Stan saw the body & voice as ‘instruments’ that can be trained
-Body: Improve posture, make supple & graceful movements

Question 11

Magic if is:

Answer 11

-Aiming to create the appearance of reality - Realism
-It’s crucial to determine the ‘do’ in the question