More and more I use film terminology in BM class; simple as CU and MS frame -- or more complex, like line of action, axis of tention.
* Character analysis: Laura, Tom, Jim (The Glass Menagerie)
Harold Clurman noted in "On Directing" (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Ltd.) that the process of actively rehearsing actors, digging into the collective subconscious from which substantial subtexts are derived, is eventually “absorbed into [the] production”. (Clurman, 1972, p.4)
Actor - Text, Actor - Director, Actor - Actor... Actor & Self (Artist), final arrival of director.
and therefore, Public can relate to Actor only through CHARACTER!
Therefore, the actors can relate to each other through characters ONLY.
(Forget Epic Theatre and Brecht for now. You should learn how to live several lives at the same time = forgetting and remembering at the same time.)
Teaching partnership ("Private in Public" -- director's existence).
Rehearsals Ahart calls "experiencing" ... "getting to know you" (actors), romancing, the moment actor gets the role (pregnant), director's jod is done.
Subtext (page in method.vtheatre.net?)
If actor's nature in identification with everyone and all, actor's talant is in being the public. He (she) is the subjective universe, which creates the audience from the crowd (of strangers). Talant after all is how many other souls can you make into your own (Christian thought).
What is the role of director in this acting process?
Director is the model of public, actor is training on him (rehearsals).
"Private in Public"? (Stanislavsky)
The secret is being both: youself and all.
... Director represents Public -- through actors!
... Homework : preparation for rehearsals
... Rehearsals Methods
* Analysis of each character -- Estragon & Vladimir
Theatre BioMechanics