Presentation
This week in class, my classmates delivered a lot of amazing presentations about lots of famous directors and actors. Out of all eight of Theorists, I pick three of them that I liked the most, and most likely will use in preparing and rehearsing my scene with my group mates. The theorists I chose are Peter Brook, Lee Strasberg, and Uta Hagen.
I will start from Uta Hagen because I think her techniques should be considered as the first step when someone got a character. Her Acting Technique is to ask yourself the following nine questions before acting: Who am I? What is my relationship? What do I want? What is in my way? What do I do to get what I want? Where am I? What time is it? What surrounds me? What are the given circumstances? To be honest, these are the elementary questions that you might hear them every day. But, when these questions come before acting, you will have to think very deeply. To figure out the reason why Uta Hagen as a famous actress and director will tell us to ask ourselves about these easiest questions. The reason is that she is trying to teach us to be the character instead of just acting it out; she is guiding us to understand the character step by step, and during that “figuring out” progress, you will become a master of this character eventually. And the other reason why I chose Uta Hagen is that I believe that everything no matter it is fancy or ordinary, they are all makeup or create from the basic stuff, that is where everything comes from—the root.
The second theorists I chose is Lee Strasberg. In our class, two people delivered the presentation of Lee Strasberg. Strasberg’s technique is called “The Method.” “The Method” is telling us to be the character, to connect the character with ourselves and our own lives, and recall your memories and emotions instead of creating it from nowhere. To do “The Method” we have to follow kind of step: Research the character and the scene you will work on; Relax, getting rid of emotions and body tensions; Using five senses to sense an object in reality; Using five senses to sense an object in the past and Recall the emotion.
The last but not the least is Peter Brook, which is the person who I worked on. Peter Brook is the one who likes to change old things and reform them into new things, to make the whole theater field better. Also, he hates the systems of schools; he always wants to liberate the actors from methods and formats. His directing style is that he depends on the actor, he will always find the best way for the actor to perform. In his performance, he likes to use the physical elements to make the show more realistic. He believes “space” need to be created. He believes in 3 relationships: Early: director/subject/designer; Rehearsal: actor/subject/director; Performance: actor/subject/audience. Another tip about Brook’s style is that he does not allow people to watch his rehearsal because he thinks the actor need to be protected by silence and secrecy. Before the performance, he will ask his actors to come up with and try a lot of different kinds of explanation about the same scene and ask them to experience more, to figure out the best way for actors. Also, he thinks that his job as a director is to lead actor to that point. So, I would like to say there isn’t any definite expression that can be used to describe his performance. His ideas are products that came from actual works, communications, and experiences.
Overall, even different theorists have different directing styles, and techniques, but they all have one thing in common, which is to make the show more realistic and let the actors have deep connections with their characters.
I will start from Uta Hagen because I think her techniques should be considered as the first step when someone got a character. Her Acting Technique is to ask yourself the following nine questions before acting: Who am I? What is my relationship? What do I want? What is in my way? What do I do to get what I want? Where am I? What time is it? What surrounds me? What are the given circumstances? To be honest, these are the elementary questions that you might hear them every day. But, when these questions come before acting, you will have to think very deeply. To figure out the reason why Uta Hagen as a famous actress and director will tell us to ask ourselves about these easiest questions. The reason is that she is trying to teach us to be the character instead of just acting it out; she is guiding us to understand the character step by step, and during that “figuring out” progress, you will become a master of this character eventually. And the other reason why I chose Uta Hagen is that I believe that everything no matter it is fancy or ordinary, they are all makeup or create from the basic stuff, that is where everything comes from—the root.
The second theorists I chose is Lee Strasberg. In our class, two people delivered the presentation of Lee Strasberg. Strasberg’s technique is called “The Method.” “The Method” is telling us to be the character, to connect the character with ourselves and our own lives, and recall your memories and emotions instead of creating it from nowhere. To do “The Method” we have to follow kind of step: Research the character and the scene you will work on; Relax, getting rid of emotions and body tensions; Using five senses to sense an object in reality; Using five senses to sense an object in the past and Recall the emotion.
The last but not the least is Peter Brook, which is the person who I worked on. Peter Brook is the one who likes to change old things and reform them into new things, to make the whole theater field better. Also, he hates the systems of schools; he always wants to liberate the actors from methods and formats. His directing style is that he depends on the actor, he will always find the best way for the actor to perform. In his performance, he likes to use the physical elements to make the show more realistic. He believes “space” need to be created. He believes in 3 relationships: Early: director/subject/designer; Rehearsal: actor/subject/director; Performance: actor/subject/audience. Another tip about Brook’s style is that he does not allow people to watch his rehearsal because he thinks the actor need to be protected by silence and secrecy. Before the performance, he will ask his actors to come up with and try a lot of different kinds of explanation about the same scene and ask them to experience more, to figure out the best way for actors. Also, he thinks that his job as a director is to lead actor to that point. So, I would like to say there isn’t any definite expression that can be used to describe his performance. His ideas are products that came from actual works, communications, and experiences.
Overall, even different theorists have different directing styles, and techniques, but they all have one thing in common, which is to make the show more realistic and let the actors have deep connections with their characters.
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