Techniques for Working with Actors in Puppet Performance WSL/RTL/TPZASL-Z
At the initial stage of the course, participants will be required to select the material they wish to explore. In the winter semester, this will be a painting or a poetic work.
After analyzing the selected work and familiarizing themselves with its cultural contexts, students will choose expressive means typical of puppet theater to narrate the content of the poetic work or a story inspired by painting (if a visual inspiration is chosen, the student will be required to prepare a storyboard that serves as the narrative-dramaturgical base for further work). The work students will do with actors will mainly involve establishing mutual relationships between the stage characters and building emotional processes and spatial situations based on these relationships.
Although the classes are laboratory-based and allow improvisation as a method of working with actors, participants are required to create a closed, repeatable structure of a stage event, which will be the subject of the examination presentation. Cooperation with students from the Puppetry Technology program is essential for the course, both during the creation of the visual concept and in building the etude.
During the analytical and conceptual stages, classes may be conducted remotely.
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
In terms of knowledge (W):
R_W04
R_W06,
R_W08
R_W10
In terms of skills (U):
R_U04
R_U05
R_U06
R_U07
In terms of social competence (K):
R_K03
R_K04,R_K05
R_K07
Assessment criteria
Winter term: Exam in the form of a presentation.
Subject to evaluation are:
• The process leading to the final presentation's outcome
• Final result of work on prepared puppet scenes
• Stage presentation of the work (etudes) before the examination committee
Bibliography
Primary reading will depend on the material chosen as the basis for the etudes.
Supplementary readings:
• Selected excerpts from texts included in the publishing series "Teorie Współczesnego Teatru: Tairow, Wachtangow, Meyerhold, Brecht, Brook; "
- Adamski J., Aktorska analiza postaci, [w:] Wprowadzenie do nauki o teatrze, t. 2: O tworzywie i twórcach dzieła teatralnego, wybór o oprac. J. Degler, Wydawnictwo UW, Wrocław 1976 s. 277-300;
- Bablet D., Rewolucje sceniczne XX wieku, przekład Z. Strzelecki, K. Mazur, Warszawa 1980, PIW;
- Gorczakow M., Lekcje reżyserskie Stanisławskiego, Warszawa 1957, PIW;
- Kowzan T., Znak w teatrze, w: Problemy teorii dramatu i teatru, t. 2: Teatr, wybór i oprac. J. Degler, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2003 s. 155-179;
- Świątkowska W., Ciało, przedmiot, lalka – materia prima sort, Teatr 5/2017;
- Waszkiel H., Materia/forma/wizualność, Teatr 4/2015.