English Drama

Amateur Theater FAQs
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Special Terms
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Drama Actor Director Rehearsal Audition Blocking Cue Audience Costume
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English Drama
---Preparation and Performance
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Why do we learn English Drama?
• • • • • • Language competence Confidence Comprehension Imagination Creativity Team work
Write down everything that you can find in the script • Factual information
– Willy Loman is a salesman and his wife is Linda.
• Viewpoint
– He is ambivalent about his job.
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Backstage Backdrop Playwright Curtain call Lines Cast Crew Run-through Props
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Actor Director Designer Team Stage Manager Audience Etiquette
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• Technical actors • Instinctive actors • Visibility principle
– Don not face the audience with your backs.
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How to get a part in a play?
• Other opinions
– His son used to adore him but changed his opinions.
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To better understand the characters… – Put yourself in the context of the play, pretend you were the character – Ask the following questions:
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Research
• Research the time for better understanding; • Study the script over and over again.
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Learn your lines
• Learning word-by-word • Physically writing down or typing out the lines • Recording the lines and frequently listening to them • Reciting the lines whenever possible • Finding a partner and recite together with him/her
• Someone who acts on stage, television, film, or radio.
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Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want sth. from sb. or when we want to hide sth. or pretend, we’re acting. Most people do it all day long.
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Jacky Chen
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Daniel Craig
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Gong Li
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Julia Roberts
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What is an actor?
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戏剧教学现状概述
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戏剧教学现状概述
• 国外教育较为发达的国家
• 非常普及
• 国内
• 进行戏剧教学的高校并不多
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国内戏剧教学发展受限的原因
• 课时紧张、资金困难、没有排练演出场地、 缺乏布景、灯光、音响等技术支持 ； • 缺少合适的演出剧本 • 缺少必要的戏剧表导演训练
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Impersonate the character
• Know the meaning of the word, the mood, the look and the action; • Determine the expression, the voice tone, the body posture; • Visualize the movement;
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What are they doing?
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How to get a part in a play?
• The audition • Get a copy of the audition piece. • Look up all the unfamiliar words in the dictionary and make sure you can pronounce them correctly. • Read the whole play at least once • Memorize the audition piece beforehand. • Keep the script open and in front of you.
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• What can you see on this picture? • What are they talking about?
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• How to play an old man or old woman since you are a young actor?
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那么， 我们培训的内容有哪些？
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• 第一部分：介绍戏剧演出的主要人员，
• 如演员、导演、技术小组、舞台监督；
• 第二部分：进行声音、形体等方面的训练； • 第三部分：选择部分英文原版戏剧进行改写； • 第四部分：选择部分剧本进行排练、演出。
• • • • Who am I ? What do I want? What is the situation? What the obstacles that prevent me from getting what I want? • How do I deal with those obstacles?
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What basic skills should I have as an actor? • • • • Body preparation Voice preparation Observation and imagination Technique
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– Necessary biographical information – Sth. Inferred in the script (“the subtext”).
• Write down everything you can find in the script.
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Rehearsal
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Rehearsal etiquette Vocabulary preparation Director’s note and actor’s note-taking Blocking Cues Run-through Technical rehearsal Dress rehearsal
• Read the script and understand your character • Research • Learn your lines
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Read the script and understand your character
• Read the script carefully and loudly • Figure out as much as you can about the character.
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A. You get a role you wanted; B. You get another role in the play; C. You don’t get any role.
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How to learn the part?
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4ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ
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几点要求：
1. 2. 3. 按时上课，原则上不允许请假。一个学 期请假超过3次将除去话剧团成员资格。 按时按质完成指导老师布置的任务和作 业，不得拖欠。 代表学院参加省内外比赛时，做到以大 局为重，无条件服从学院组织安排。
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Chapter 1
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Performance
• Before performance • Preparing for performance • On stage
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Actor’s dos and don’ts
• • • • • • • • Dos: Listen to the director Learn the lines early Learn the cues Learn the moves Be punctual Check costume, props and set Remain in charater until they are off stage and out sight of the audience • Listen to the fellow actors on and off stage • Help dismantle (拆分) the set • Don’ts • Talk or whisper in the wings • Go outside the theater wearing their costumes • Invite friends or family backstage • Have mobile phones switched on backstage • Play tricks on fellow cast members on stage, such as deliberately changing lines; • Upstage (抢镜头) a fellow actor • Play to particular members of the audience, such as family and friends (迎合观众的表演)
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Actor FAQs
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What is an actor? What basic skills should I have as an actor? How do I get a part in a play? How do I learn the part? Rehearsal Performance After performance
---Marlone Brando
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The Godfather
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Actor’s involvement
• Audition ---The way that the actor gets a role. • Rehearsal --- The actor learns it. • Performance ---The actor produces it on stage.