Practitioners Lexicon

Practitioners Lexicon

1. Stanislavski

   • Naturalism
   • Realism
   • The 'System'
   • Unit of Action
   • Beat
   • Fundamental Questions
   • Given Circumstances
   • Super-Objective
   • Through Line
   • Muscular Memory
   • Emotional Memory
   • "What if?"
   • Public Solitude
   • Ensemble Acting

2. Berkoff

   • Physical Theatre
   • Frantic Assembly
   • Stylisation
   • Multi-Role
   • Total Theatre
   • Neutral State
   • Choral
   • Base Pulse
   • Figurative Mime
   • Mimage
   • States of Tenision
   • Tableu
   • Slow Motion
   • Spoken Word
   • Digital Sound Effects
   • Mimic
   • Exagerated Movements

3. Brecht

   • Political Theatre
   • Epic Theatre
   • Verfremdungseffekt
   • Caption Cards
   • Gestus
   • Direct Address
   • Fourth Wall
   • Consistent Lighting
   • Live Music
   • "acting is Acting in quotation marks"
   • Projections
   • Episodic

4. Artaud

   • Theatre of Cruelty
   • Surrealism
   • Audience Participation
   • Extreme version of reality
   • Extraordinary
   • MetaPhysics
   • Catharsis
   • Written Poetry
   • Ritualistic Movement
   • Disturbing Images
   • Loud Piercing Sounds