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methods and chronology

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Year of First tour of MAT in America   1923  
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MAT was under attack in _______   Russia  
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Two things Chekhov complained about Stanislavski:   Stanislavski focuses too much on surface detail, AND he does not notice comedic element in Chekhov's plays  
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Three people to challenge/expand Stanislavki's theories:   Evgeni Vakhtangov, Michael Chekhov, Vselvelod Meyerhold  
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3 misconceptions about what Stanislavski "wanted" from actors   Theater=everyday life Forget audience was present Hostile to 'theatricalism'  
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Co-founder of MAT's first studio   Evegini Vakhtangov  
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Stanislavski felt the acting in Vakhtangov's first productions crossed into _________   Hysteria!  
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Vakhtangov combined Stanislavski's _____________ ____________ with _____________   Inner technique; theatricalism  
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Grotesque/ Fantastical Realism   Enables the actor and the director to justify inwardly the content of the play  
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Fantastic realism is realism which encompassed _____________   reality  
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Adjustment/Justification   Actor can use modivations from outside of the play to justify actions of the present (within the play)  
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Walking on the floor as though testing if for holes instead of contemplating death is an example of _____________   actor secrets  
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Vakhtangov believed all actors should have a desire to tell the story or have a ___________   reason for coming to the theater  
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Vakhtangov was a celebration of the _______   imagination  
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"Believable but Eccentric"   Michael Chekhov  
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Chekhov was an early member of who's studio?   Vakhtangov  
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When playing a drunk, Chekhov chose to "build the plysical character on a madman's realization that each part of his body is dying in a seperate and horrible way". This is an expansion on ____________   justification  
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Chekhov rejected:   exclusive use of emotion over imagination  
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Chekhov's students were to always be ________ ___________   observing others  
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Atmospheres   Source of eneffable moods that emanate from surroundings (feeling of foreboding in a dark alleyway)  
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If an actor only plays an atmosphere in a scene, he runs the risk of playing a ___________   mood (spelled backwards is doom)  
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In your mind asking of a character to show you how they run and live   visualization  
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Asking for an emotion is often the best way to make it run and hide according to Chekhov. His solution was to say instead of "act happy" he said "add a __________ of happiness here"   quality  
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Plysical action that reveals inner feelings and personality of a character is called   psychological gesture  
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Who spend 4 years action with the MAT?   Vsevelod Meyerhold  
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Meyerhold orginated the role of ________ in SEAGULL   Treplev  
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Meyerhold orginated the role of ________ in CHERRY ORCHARD   Tusenbanch  
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Meyerhold left MAT due to problems with   Nemirovich Danchenko  
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Did Stanislavski lose or gain money on Meyerhold's studio?   Lost money  
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Meyerhold was caught between:   realism and a desire to transcend it  
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According to Meyerhold, the fatal flaw of the Stanislavski system was:   its lack of physical expressivity  
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Meyerhold wanted to do away with:   the fourth wall  
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According to Meyerhold, Art should __________ imitate life.   NOT (since art is so different from life)  
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Meyerhold: Theater should _____________ the audience   challenge  
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Who were the revolutionaries that inspired Meyerhold in the 1910s?   Picasso (art) Stravinski (music) Einstein (relativity) Darwin (evolution) Marx (politics)  
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Meyerhold: to break free of realism, the actor must approach acting in a purely _______ way   physical  
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Meyerhold was influenced by other cultures:   Cemmedia del arte pantomime circus Kabuki and Noh Eastern theateres (knees) Clowning  
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Efficiency in motion idealized by ____________ inspired Meyerhold   Frederick Taylor  
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Meyerhold actors should ignore subjective emotion and instead focus on expression through ___________   reaction of nerves and muscles  
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Meyerhold rejected the idea of the _________   fourth wall/public solitude  
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Brutal physical training for in Meyerhold method   Biomechanics  
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Meyerhold wished to create feeling in the A. Audience B. Actor   A. Audience  
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Trend in modern theater toward reducting the event down to the essentials began with:   Thorton Wilder's "Our Town" 1938  
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Acting is doing   Sanford Meisner  
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Living truthfully Under Imaginary circumstances   Sanford Meisner  
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An everlasting search for truth   Laurnece Olivier  
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Acting is not (6 things):   Showing narrating illustrating exhibiting dressing up displaying emotions  
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The actors goal   to tell the character's circumstances in the play's story as truthfully and effectively as possible  
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essential conditions (4 things):   time (when) place(where) surroundings (what) others (who)  
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Actors work in rehearsal is to:   discover the truth of an individual's behavior within circumstances  
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Playing space and activities is compared to:   baseball  
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pre-stanislavski school of thought   external technique  
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Convincing imitation and skilled projection of emotions being imitated describes the skills of a _______________   mimetic actor (DAVID GARRICK)  
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Three "outside in" actors   David Garick Sarah Bernhardt Laurence Olivier  
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Internal belief gave way to:   ALT, Theatre Guild, and the Group  
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THe actor's tools (7)   Body, Voice, Impulses, Emotions, Concentration, Imagination, Intellect  
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Three things an actor must be:   Flexible Disciplined Expressive to communicate a wide range of emotion and behavior  
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Stanislavski: the fundamental aim of our art....   is the creation of the inner life of a human spirit and its expression in an artistic form  
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personal truth in acting has to be balanced with..   attention to the playwright's text  
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Transformed Stanslavski to american method   Lee Strasberg  
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actor must constantly respond to stimuli that are imaginary. and yet this must happen not only just as it happens in life but actually more fully and more expressively   Lee Strasberg  
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Neighborhood Playhouse, Group theatre, reality of doing   Sanford Meisner  
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4 ways to focus on the reality of doing:   impulses, instinct, freeing the imagination, strengthening concentration  
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Respect for acting, a challenge for the actor and actor's actor, first actor then teacher, HB studio   Uta Hagen  
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Improvisation   spontaneous invention  
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Two names of practical aesthetics   David Mamer and WH Macy  
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Goal of practical aesthetics   provid the tools for an actor to go onstage with freedom to be completely involved as story unfolds  
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Focus of practical aesthetics training   things the actor can control:voice body concentratoin script analysis based on acting as a craft  
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Anne bogart movement theory   viewpoints  
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viewpoints   set of names given to certain basic principles of movement that make up a language for a director and actor to talk about the stage  
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