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Uta Hagen was born on June 12, 1919 in Gottingen, Germany and was raised in Madison, Wisconsin. She later went onto study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic arts in London. Uta Hagen made her professional debut in 1937 at the age of 18 and made her broadway debut in ‘The “Seagull”. Uta Hagen won her first Tony Award, Drama critics award, and the Donaldson award in 1950 for her performance in “The Country Girl”. She went on to star in many classics such as “St. Joan” and “A Month in the…

When considering the greatest performers in history, renowned artists and groups such as Michael Jackson, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Louis Armstrong. When looking at present day, examining the greatest performers tends to be more difficult. We can define a performer, simply, as “a person who entertains an audience.” (source3) With this, anyone could be a performer, however when defining what makes a performer one of the best performers there is, the criteria becomes far more complex.…

character faces. In comparison, in “A Scandal in Bohemia,” sight is taken in a bit of a less literal sense. While sight is naturally important to any detective work, it is not directly responsible for Holmes’ downfall. When Holmes is duped by Irene Adler, it is because of a combination of his hyper precision, miscalculations, and overconfidence. Despite Holmes technically “losing” the case, he does not feel the need to physically gouge his eyes out as a punishment, and therefore sight in this…

Stanislavski Konstantin Stanislavski was born on the 5th of January 1863 and he died at the age of 75 and that year was 7th of August 1938. He was born is Moscow and also died in the same city of Moscow and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery. Stanislavski created a new way to preform acts and other parts of theatre, this way of theatre made its way all over the globe and is now one of the most used ways to preform acts at shows and other places. This new way of preforming was to make the…

Discuss and analyse the emergence of actor training systems since 1905 In this essay, I have decided to talk about actor training that has emerged within the last one hundred years, and you truly can’t talk about popular modern actor training without talking about Constantin Stanislavski, famed Russian actor, director, and teacher, who deeply influenced the theatre of the 20th century. Born Constantin Sergeyvich Alekseyev on January 17th 1863, and died on August 7th 1938. He was born into one…

Concentration is key in performances as the actor should be constantly thinking like the character and not themselves, although they may think there personality is like the character you still have to show it isn't you. By looking at the audience and making them totally aware your doing it is not what a professional actor what's the achieve, although as Stanislavski said ignoring the audience isn't right either, due to them being a 'co-creator' of every performance. I believe that getting the…

When actors are performing on stage for an audience there can be many distractions which could ruin there performance. Stanislavski believed that if the actors observed an object with intensity, they would become interested in it which would help them develop an action with it. Although Stanislavski didn’t want his actors to easily become distracted by the audience, he didn’t advise that the actor forget the audience, or believe they didn’t exist. He thought that would be contradictory to the…

“Stanislavski was concerned with actors getting distracted by the audience while performing on stage.” This here shows that to start off the actors could get completely distracted by the audience which could possibly ruin an entire performance. However Stanislavski saw this problem and found ways to counteract this problem. It was difficult however because Stanislavski did not want the actors just to forget the audience, I also think that forgetting about the audiences existence is a bad idea…

Stanislavski was extremely concerned that the actors would get distracted by the audience when they are performing on stage. Stanislavski came up with a way to make actors observe in a way in which it would help them develop their acting making them more focused and aware. The audience is very important to the overall piece, however he did not find them a ‘crippling factor’. Stanislavski came to realise that actor’s lost control of their basic acting skills on stage. Moreover it was recognised…

Stanislavski’s work has not only helped people to become better actors, but also have helped others to become better people by helping them understand themselves. He has provided a system to help actors process of characterization which can also be applied to one’s everyday life. The first way Stanislavski’s work that stood out to me was the first proposition he makes for having actors become like the characters. He mentions how one must believe that that he or she is convincingly in the same…