...Walter Felsenstein Copyright © by yale/theatre 1975 1975 Method and Attitude Walter Felsenstein (From a lecture delivered at the Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, 1963.) Eleven years ago a group...

... disability scooter. Behind them, the fake grass of an installation extends toward the gray building and tall windows of Lincoln Center. Petra Kuppers Crip/Mad Archive Dances Arts-­Based Methods in and out of the Archive Bodymindspirits. I am sitting in the New York Public Library (nypl) Dance Division...

...Brian Eugenio Herrera Brian Eugenio Herrera considers the playwright’s role, including how it has been shaped by and has responded to notable conventions of the postwar American theater, such as color-blind casting, Method acting, psychological naturalism, and representational identity politics...

... Performance Project: Dean Moss and Sungmyung Chun's Nameless forest , Maria Jerez's The Case of the Spectator , and the Rude Mechs' The Method Gun . © 2012 by Emily Coates 2012 Emily Coates Moving between, among, in the Midst Intercultural Kinesis kinesis (from Greek motion...

... is feeling — adds theories of social construction to scientific accounts of “mirror neurons.” These versatile dendrites of empathetic feel- The Method Gun, ing induce the sensation of one person’s bodily movement or posture in the mind of directed by Shawn another who beholds it. In the thrilling...

... CriSto; George L. Fox had willingly tu these internalized melodramas, al- several thousand performances of Humpty lowing a disengagement of intellect in surrender Dumpty to his credit. to emotional ritual. American acting, well- 104 “The Method actor’s...

... for the picture frame can be ex- adds original touches in the decorative use aesthetic complications that an “open plained by the fact that only in this of stage braces and ropes. When the raised space” places on a play by Brecht. distanced and panoramic method of stag- tips of two stage braces...

... and Maria Ous- penskaya at the American Laboratory Theatre in New York; from them he learned what Stanislavski had taught as the essentials of acting at the Moscow Art Theatre and transformed the Russian technique into the Amencan “Method.” In 1931, Mr. Strasberg founded the Group Theatre...

... as a model. Both Decroux and Nature Theater of Lecoq were shaped by their early work with Jacques Copeau’s methods, the subject of Oklahoma’s No Dice, Jane Baldwin’s essay in the History volume: Decroux was a student at Copeau’s Ecole New York, 2006. du Vieux-­Colombier, and Lecoq was a young actor...

..., three of Bergman’s Strindbergian landscape that underlies most famous players sit down together the well-ordered Ibsenian surface of to talk in greater detail about the work- O’Neill’s play. The critical reaction ex- FJM “Everything suggests some- ing method which this director himself pressed...

... or its limits? How effective is Milo Rau s theater as political theater or activist performance? How important are Milo Rau s processes/methods for the resulting performance? Their insights appear in the forum that follows. Eds. Ursina Lardi Actor (Compassion, lenin, and Everywoman) Theater evenings...

... clarified the elusive "method" that Grotowski acknowledges in his preface that the book is disclaimed in the first place. Grotowski com• "a point of departure for more detailed pounded the mystery in 1971 by announcing...

... deliberating on the essence of theater and its profound relationship with the contemporary human condition. Precise and methodical, he also epitomizes a per- fect teacher. Not only does he teach students directing and acting, but he also teaches the actors he encounters during his work on a performance...

... of rehearsal processes, the American Method kind of project is a standard approach to the two kinds of sensation: the tension and sen- acting style and productions which are classics in German, Nel's specific directorial sitivity of surfaces, and the internal wave-like popular with local subscribers...

... of triviality and the Charybdis of narcissism, attempting to historicize my own experiences using a method inspired by Pierre Bourdieu, whose work offers extraordinarily rich tools for theater scholarship. I believe this historicization to be a worthwhile effort...

... is not for the spectators to decide. Instead, the audience is left simply to watch and be amazed by this Paul McKinley Socratic dialogue run amok. “Ah, your method is the illustrative method.” Attendant...

... methods reinforce this relationship among himself, his play, and the audience. As the proscenium frames the entire stage picture, so many other framing devices set apart various aspects within that picture. These mechanisms, along with a for- midable arsenal of disturbing noises and glaring...

...- tin Stanislavsky’s ideas about “solitude in public” (translated into American Method acting as “being private in public”) depend on the modern assumption of private and public as two separate realms, the former conditioning the latter.2 Second, it has trans- formed the aesthetic framing on which...

..., your own baby, and you take the baby to school My writing changed when I first found out what the principle of and the baby is crying and the teacher says, “Please I’ll take care of it. Method is. My writing became organic. I stopped being so Make a note; at the end of the day you and I can...

... without our usual rehearsal period2. Through such masterworks of music and drama as Carmen, Der Freischitz, Falstaf4 The Bartered Bride, The Marriage of Figuro, and The Magic Flute, we have developed working methods which we are now able to apply to a much wider range...