Stanislavski

During the two lessons on Stanislavski we looked at his context, features, and impact on modern theatre and acting. Stanislavski has very revolutionary ideas, for his time, regarding the importance of actors, script and charecter. This was very interesting to think about in terms of how a charecter can be defined or played by an actor. This made me think about the way i play charecatre sureing my performances and think about how I could improve for the future. This changed the way I thought about playing charecters and how much effort must go into each one to remove myself and my personality from the characters.

Although I have taken many elements of Stanislavski's methods into consideration, especially those regarding his attention to detail, I personally do not like stanislavski's focus on removing the actor from the charecter and his focus on naturalistic theatre, as it does not allow for any symbolism or metaphorical elements. 

Theatre in Education

The first week we looked into what theatre of education is and what elements define it. We found that TIE works extremely closely with comedy as well as audience participation and involvement. This gave us specific elements to think about including in our performance. This discussion into the elements of TIE made us think about the way we would conduct our performance and the way we would create features that link to the base ideas of TIE. This changed the way I looked at staging and the blocking of our scenes.

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In addition to creating a funny and engaging performance with elements of audience participation, we still needed to have a main idea or theme that would be the main focus of the TIE, which we would be attempting to teach the audience, making them leave thinking about the topic or having learnt something. This forced us to think about a core message or theme that we could teach our young audience.