Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Relationships
- Butoh's Blooming and Withering - create a
stance/gesture to reflect character
traits/relationships for key moments; explore the
changes throughout the play
- Cross-Cutting - cutting back
and forth between scenes to
explore motivations and the
impact of actions on
behaviour/decisions/outcomes
- Thought Tracking - reveal the character's
inner thoughts/feelings; subtext and insights
- Hot Seating - answer Qs in
role to develop insights
- Flashback - creating off text scenes to
explore background/motivations
- Stanislavski's Pre-Life - actors
understand the life of the
character before the play begins
- Stanislavski's Given Circumstances -
knowing the who, what, when, where,
why and how of the scene to gain
insight
- Stanislavski's Emotion Memory - recalling a personal
memory and recreating the emotions and physiological
responses in order to portray them in role
- Brecht's Say the Opposite - before speaking
the line, actors say the opposite; character's
behaviour is not pre-determined, they always
make choices.
- Brecht's Paraphrase - putting lines in
your own words helps the actor
question the role and see a new
perspective
- Brecht's Role Swap -
actors view their role
from a differenct
perspective to gain a
better understanding of
the relationships
- Sound Effects - Director plays various sound effects
(drumming, eerie sounds); only Woyzeck responds
- Status 'Follow the String' - one actor holds a piece of string and
leads, another must follow the end of the string precisely, vary
pace/difficulty to explore status/relationnships
- Status 'Ladder Levels' -
move higher/lower on the
ladder to reflect status of
lines
- Status Cards - 1 = lowest / 5 = highest
- actors improvise a scene (e.g.
hairdressers) at secret levels, insights
re voice, NVC
- Status - Master and Servant - pairs take turns
at setting tasks to control actions/behaviour,
reflect on responses
- Amoeba - whole cast must be connected and travel, like an
amoeba, from one side of the rehearsal space to the other.
They must stay connected. Repeat, this time, the
Dr/Captain try to reject Woyzeck and push him out of the
cell.
- Split Scene - rehearse two scenes side by side to explore
the impact of one character's actions on another
- Tableaux - create a series of tableau to
reflect relationships at key moments