Stanislavski Exploration Notes Ist Draft Deadline 3rd November 2009

Evaluation Notes tips

The social, cultural, historical and political context

· Write about Norway at the time of Ibsen

· Women’s place in society

· Laws relating to fraud

· Social rules of society at that time

· Clothing / housing/ life of the middle classes

Language

· Give examples of the use of language in the play which helps the reader :

Understand the style of the play eg: Naturalism

Explores the class of the character

Reveals information about the characters personality and or relationship with other characters

Non Verbal Communication

· This should look at the use of subtext in the writing and give examples of that

· Also explore the super objectives of the characters and their units and objectives in the scene that you worked on for your presentation

Vocal Awareness

Explore your response to playing middle class women and how approached the language in terms of clarity / vocal expression and centreing of the voice. Use practical workshop and performance and rehearsals for scene

Characterisation

Write and analyse character choices you made using the Stanislavski techniques and how you developed your character for the scene give examples and quotes from the text and Stanislavski to back up your points.

Include:

Given circumstances

Character biographies

Magic If

Truth and belief

Character five step

Units and objectives

Emotion memory/imaging

Adaption/ communion

The visual, aural and spatial elements of production

Write and analyse all features which make it a naturalistic play and how they add to the themes and message of the play

Set

Costumes

Lighting

Props

Type of staging

Relationship with audience

The response to a practitioner

Explore the difference between Realism and Naturalism and what makes the Dolls house a naturalistic play.

Give examples from your rehearsals and performance on how you worked using the Stanislavski techniques and how it enabled you to create a believable 3 dimensional character and evaluate your understanding of the practitioner and what you learnt about him.

Interpretation

Explore and evaluate the choices you made about the scene and how you chose to show the characters and themes and message of the play through the scene you worked on

Give examples from your rehearsals and performance and analyse all aspects in detail.

*This all should be written in the first person and should be a personal exploration of the work that you have done and evaluation of the play and practitioner you have worked on.