The main direction of the second stage of the training: “Actor’s work on the role.” Students who have completed the basic course who wish to continue their creative development are invited to join the advanced group.
In the structure of this stage:
Acting trainings
· Work on dramatizations. The basics of working on a role.
· Work on improving the vocal apparatus. Speech specificity.
· Development of body plastics.
Theoretical lessons:
- Conflict is the basis of drama.
- Theme and idea
- Event, the nature of its occurrence and the principles of its organization.
- Super task.
- Verbal action.
Practical lessons:
- Mastering acting instruments by the method of M. Chekhov, Vs. Meyerhold, E. Grotovsky, other masters of theatrical art (depending on the direction of work proposed by the course leader).
- Creation of sketches for the construction of the event.
- Studies of interaction with a partner on stage.
- Work in an acting ensemble.
- Student’s choice of a scene from a play for stage implementation.
- Distribution of roles. Search for character archetype.
- Improvisational stage of work.
- Embodiment of the staging concept: organizing the stage, mastering the character’s line of behavior in accordance with the found archetype, creating an atmosphere.
The main tasks of working on stage speech:
- Conscious mastery of a complex of elements of internal and external techniques of verbal action.
- Education of the voice as a spokesman for thought, expanding its range, flexibility, strength.
- Possession of the tempo-rhythm of speech.
- Development of stage-sounding consonants (so that they do not disappear in the stage-sounding voice).
- Particular attention is paid to the ability to “build” the reading material in perspective. Plastic
- General developmental gymnastics
- Techniques for some special actions (for example, falling).
The final result of studying at the acting school at the 2nd stage is an open show of theatrical excerpts, friends, acquaintances, and relatives are invited as spectators.