Drama Term Tuesday #29
/Kosky (Barrie Kosky)
(1967 - )
Influential Australian born theatre and opera director. Eclectic in approach often borrowing from European Expressionism, Kosky works in a layered, excessive presentational style.
Drama Term Tuesday #28
/Expressionist Theatre
Expressionism
A 20th Century theatre movement that seeks to show inner psychological reality through the distortion of scenery, lighting, costuming and acting styles; key playwrights include Strindberg and Wederkind; major influence on design and conceptualisation of silent films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.
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Drama Term Tuesday #23
/Juxtaposition
When dramatic action holds up side by side different, generally contrasting, ideas or characters; the power of juxtaposition lies in its capacity to allow an audience to draw conclusions, to explore dramatic irony; juxtaposition is frequently more than the sum of the individual parts; juxtaposition uses contrast and dislocation to provoke fresh understanding and dramatic impact.
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Drama Term Tuesday #21
/Method Acting
Stanislavski
The Method
System of acting derived from Stanislavski and popularised in the USA by Group Theatre, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Uta Hagen, Elia Kazan and Boleslavsky amongst others. There are various interpretations of method acting.
There is a focus on creating life-like realistic performances with actors drawing on their own emotions, memories and experiences. Based on the sense or emotional memory process, method acting focuses on actors fully immersing themselves in their characters in order to sense all of the experiences the character would sense.
Well suited to film and realistic acting, Method Acting has been highly popular and also highly criticised for over indulgent focus on internalised emotion and excess.
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Drama Term Tuesday #15
/Willing suspension of disbelief
Phrase coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to describe the conscious acceptance of the illusion or unreality of drama by audiences; although it is clearly an actor on a performance space, members of audences suspend or hold at bay their scepticism or sense of reality in favour of believing the imagined dramatic action.
