Tadashi Suzuki - Andy and Joel
Worried because he's such a revolutionary practitioner and he hasn't got an apprentice
Movement
- In Suzuki's theatre what method of acting and movements does the Old Man and the Nurse incorporate in Suzuki's adaption of Shakespeare's King Lear?
- a collection of exercises that cultivated understanding
- three theories: 1) to act, one must have a point of view 2) for acting to begin, one must have an audience 3) To sustain acting, an awareness of the invisible body is required
- (energy, oxygen, centre of gravity) way of expanding energy focus on centre of balance. All the things that are invisible that we rely on
- Goels: understanding different ways in which the feet contact the floor
- Breathe through the nose
- Send the energy through the floor onto the ground when stomping
- Keep the upper body free, but strong
- Be constantly focused and aware, lose yourself in fiction, keep the lower body constantly enraged and powerful underneath the centre of gravity to support the breath and vocal instrument
- One of the most important ways of moving: ten ways of walking/stamping shakuhachi
- Standing statues
- Sitting statues
- Doing movement with a different relationship of your body to your floor
Rise of modern japan
- World war two - effects of the atomic bomb
- US influence - Start of capitalism, globalisation
- Movement into the 21st century
- Resistance to change - modern japanese theatre
Globalization and culture
- decrease in communication, decrease in theatrical appreciation?
- Non-places - welcome to the west, culture extermination
- Rules of society - theatrical spaces
The village of toga and theatrical spaces
- Form of silent protest - artistic enlightenment outside of the capital
- Dynamis location
- Audience has freedom
The Tale of King Lear
- Blending of cultures
- Stage space - dynamic, multicultural
- Theatre acting as a bridge - english writer, japanese practitioner
- Audience and Actor connection
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