Acting II Final

to mark your script in order to make specific informed choices about how you plan to portray a character

change of subject, objective, tactic, obstacle

“The process of collaboratively creating new work without a pre-existing script wherein the collaborators are also the performers.”

a playwright writes the text, a director then casts actors and designers to interpret that text

A devised piece can start with anything: a painting, music, an image, a prompt, a real-life event, movement, etc.

1) research 2) creation 3) development 4) rehearsal 5) performance

literally translates to “advanced guard” which more or less means whatever is the newest, most experimental, pushing the cutting edge. Possibly anti-establishment/counter establishment, reformist, and often a deliberate provocation to established systems.

a type of experimental and innovative theatre that seeks to challenge traditional or historical norms and conventions.

Avant Garde

Avant-garde theatre experiments with different aspects of theatre, such as the use of space, time, language, sound, lighting, costumes, props, and technology. Avant-garde theatre also experiments with different modes of performance, such as improvisation, collaboration, participation, interaction, and multimedia. Avant-garde theatre often breaks the fourth wall, the imaginary barrier between the actors and the audience, and invites the audience to become part of the performance.

Avant-garde theatre introduces new and original ideas, techniques, and styles to theatre, and creates new genres and forms of theatre. Avant-garde theatre also adapts and transforms existing genres and forms of theatre, and gives them new meanings and interpretations. Avant-garde theatre often challenges the conventional notions of plot, character, dialogue, and action, and creates non-linear, fragmented, and abstract narratives.

Avant-garde theatre provokes the audience to think, feel, and react in new and unexpected ways. Avant-garde theatre often confronts the audience with controversial, shocking, or disturbing themes, images, and situations, and makes them question their assumptions, beliefs, and values. Avant-garde theatre also challenges the audience to take a stance, to make a choice, or to take action.

Theatre of the Oppressed

Theatre of Cruelty

Epic theatre

taught to adapt Albert Camus’s Theory of the Absurd for the stage- which examines the inherent futility of trying to live a meaningful life in a meaningless universe...(Beckett, Ionesco, Havel, Pinter, Albee)

1)Break the 4th wall

2)Non-linear or fragmented narratives

3)Symbolism and abstraction (rather than realism or naturalistic elements)-symbols, metaphors, colors, images, sounds, movements to convey message/aesthetic

Persuade, convince, caress, beg, bully, wound, threaten, intimidate, bribe, seduce, appeal/appease, educate, explain, clarify, confront