Actor's Improvisation in the Course of Through Action

Report and workshop by Leonid Ostropolsky
(Associate Professor of the Chair of Acting Art and Stage Direction of the Kiev Karpenko-Kary State Institute of Theatrical Art, Honoured Art Worker, Director-Producer of the Kiev Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Russian Drama Theatre)

Report plan:

1. The problem of improvisation in Acting Art.
2. Improvisation as the highest type of scenic action.
3. Actor's improvisation during the performance.
4. Improvisation during the rehearsal period.
5. To master the thoughts of the character means to master the role and freedom of improvisation in it.
6. Specific training of skills of actor's creative action improvisation.
7. Run-through of the performance.
8. Resume.

Master-Class in Actor's Training of Scenic Action Improvisation:

1. The system of exercises.
2. The application of the system of exercises to the fragments from Shakespeare's plays "Hamlet", "The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Twelfth Night".

The participants of the Festival may, to their wish, take any dramatic fragments from the works of classical authors.

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