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After the long journey Grusha arrives at his brother's house.She finds a shelter for a short time. However, his coward brother and selfish sister-in-law refuse to keep them after 6 months. Her brother buys her a dying husband in order to find a place for her. Nevertheless, the husband is pretending dying so he could aviod military service and he treats and asks Grusha as his real wife. Several months later, Simon comes and discovers his fiancee is married. He leaves without listen to any further explaination. Michael also has been take by soldiers who are helping Natalle gets her child. When the unfortunate woman enters the city with soldiers, what waiting for her is judge Azdak. Azdak was a clerk in town. He was an indolent man but never did something really bad. He had the sympathy of the weak. He found a beggar on the day of revolt. He discovered that the beggar was the Duke after the Duke fleed away. He surrendered himself to the police of guilty of let the Duke flee away. Bu...

Grusha ran away to the northern mountains.She bought milk for a higher price from an old man for Michael.Then she pretended as a rich lady and rested in a caravasary with 2 elegant ladies and paid for a cut-throat price for the room, too.The 2 ladies inmediately found out that Grusha is a servant when she did housework well. She got expelled from the room and hit the road right after that.After whole night hurrying on her journey, she had to put Michael on the step of a farm and said goodbye. However, she encountered a group of ironshirts who have bad purpose then them chase her after back to that farm. She asked the host to claim the child and the host had to. However, the host was in panic so she faild. And Grusha had been captured. She beat the corporal into coma and dashed away with Michael.She had to cross a rotten bridge on the road. She leaped to the otherside when she was expected to fall.

In this scene, the governor and his family are going to the church. There, they meet the fat prince. The governor refuses to hear from the rider from the capital.Grusha has been molest by a guard. After the governor enters the church, the fat prince gives the signal to soldiers to stage coup. The governor has been captured. His wife has been urged by the adjutant to leave. The foolish woman wastes too much time on useless things so she has to leave the child Micheal behind. After Grusha's farewell with her fiance Simon, she hesitates over and over whether flees away or carries the child. When the ironshirts break in the fort and retreat to find the child(they reckon Micheal is not there), Grusha hears the child's call for help. So she takes Michael with her and flees away.

Scene1: Characters: Delegates of the Galinsk goat-breeding kolchos:an old peasant,a peasant woman, a young peasant, a very young workman. Members of the Rosa Luxemburg fruit-growing kolchos: an old peasant, a peasant woman, the agronomist, the girl tractor driver. The wounded soldier and other peasants from the kolchos,the expert from the capital,singer Arkadi Cheidze, fellow muscians. Plot:After the WWII, 2 groups of delegates from 2 kolchoses are arguing for ownership of the land which was abandoned by the Galinsk kolchos but operated by the Rosa Luxemburg. The 2 groups are on the 2 sides of the stage. Left one is Rosa Lumburg group, right one is Galinsk group. The 2 groups are teasing each others at first, but when they enter the topic of patriotism, they agree each other.Nevertheless, the Rose Luxemburg has already prepared a particular plan for the further development of the land. As a result, they get singer Arkadi and themselves to perform a play which involves solving curr...

1.artificial background noises: the two lights on the top and the sound of the lamp make the scene artificial. 2.feeling of hypocritical scene: the actress kept behaving in a way that should not appear on someone who lose her father. Also,her face appears with numbness. Put the money in her wallet, try on the watch, make up herself to be ready to sing. All of these serve to notify the audience that this is a play. 3.use of discordant music:play the mocking music when is where should be the climax of sadness. To create a sense of fake emotion.

1.zoom in on the actress's face:all the time, to show the audience what and how the character is. 2.natural tone of singing and talking: open mouth before saying anything which crates a sense of sadness and hesitation 3.emotion is more important than lines:last scene she did articulate any of the lines but audience can feel the emotion 4.natural background:no music but uses natural sound. There was no artificial lights and the only lamp seems natural.

Brecht wanted: to develop the means of entertainment into an object of instruction, and to change certain institutions from places of amusement into organs of public communication. To create characters that deliver a political and social message. Exercise: the narrator:inform people in the other side to know something without talking Exercise:turbulent times:think about how the events that time affected Brecht and his work. Exercise:class:reorder people in line by different characteristics Exercise: taxi driver: student A(taxi driver) needs to figure out who student B is acting out and student B needs to act out different character and show their background and social class as much as he or she can. Externalisation:to show thoughts or feelings on the outside using gesture,movement and facial expression Gestus:a gesture that defines the position your character is in within society Exercise:folding linen:act out 2 house wives arguing then act out silently Exercise:char...

1.Stanislavski was one of the greatest practitioners of theater in 20th century. He was born in a wealthy businessman family in 1863, Moscow, Russia. He started his actor career in his teenage age. Nevertheless, he found himself tired of acting and watching at the classical theater play which actors or actresses exaggerated their movements and acted out everything over-exaggerated in his mind. He wished to have a real life performance stage which means actors or actresses should behave naturally. One anecdote about him was that he used to pretend himself as someone else whose life and background was imagined by him for days. Later he set up Moscow Art Theater. Here, he led his group tours which brought enormous influence to the theater all over the world to Europe and the US. He developed his own system of acting. He was the one who proposed that performers' first priority should be the experience of acting rather than those vocal techniques or movement lessons. Before I studied ...

1.  Exercise: tempo-rhythm: clap for the character 2.  Exercise:reading the play: read and think about the first impressions and find one sentence which you think is the most important and compare to your group mates.Come up with one sentence summarize the plot. 3.  Exercise: My character’s past:imagine the whole life of your character since he or she’s born to the start of the play. Tell the story with first person perspective. 4.  Exercise: Pinning down my character:think about the character’s super objective and check what others think. 5.  Exercise: dividing up the play: divide into small piece of scenes. 6.  E xercise: decide an objective for each bit. 7.  E xercise: active analysis: analyse the bits(experience the character in action) 8.  T eacher-led exercise:go over all bits and check if it agrees the super objective. 9.  E xercise: the final run:24h before the first performance. 10.  Summary of Stanilavski and...

I do not like this style of performance. It is mostly a very traditional one except the use of modern techniques. The style of acting and emotion is very traditional. They exaggerate the movement overly. For example, when they are fighting, they are just pretending fighting. Have you ever seen someone fights that way? Also, in Thenardiers' hotel, they celebrate in an exaggerated way. Have you ever seen somebody steps on others for celebration? It is a good play, but not for me.

Struggle of Common People: Les Miserables Yesterday, we went to the Bushnell Performing Arts Center to see the famous musical Les Miserables. It is based on the novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and directed by Claude-Micheal Schonberg. The story begins with a released criminal Jean Valjean who has been put into jail for stole bread for his family. Hotels refuse him for he used to be a criminal so he could only rest in a monastery. He has been caught when he tries to flee away with the father ’ s silver instruments. But the father claims he is innocent and he gives the silver to Jean Valjean and the only thing he asks is to be a honest man. After years, Valjean uses alias Monsieur Madeleine and becomes a rich factory owner and the mayor of a city. However, his factory dismisses pregnant Fantine. After losing her job, Fantine becomes a prostitute. She leaves her daughter Cosette in Thenardier ’ s hotel. One day, Fantine has been arrested by the inspector Javert who thinks Fanti...

After today's self-study I have 3 new facts about Stanislavski and his method. The first one is his system is more about acting experience but not the skills. In this way, the system not only ask the actors to do exercises but also spend a lot of attention on get use to act which means there should not be gap between an actor's daily life and on stage performance.The second fact I discovered is that his method is more about principles than specific approaches. He said himself:" Create your own method! Don't depend slavishily on mine!Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you." and "what is important to me is not the truth outside myself but the truth inside my self". As a result, I think when we are studying about him and his methods, we should work on experienceing, creating and exploring rather than memorizing. The third thing is he required students treat their characters as real people. He hope us to jump out of...

1.  The six W ’ s. : Who am I, When am I, Why am I here, Where am I, What do I want, What will I do to achieve my want.( keep asking these question to yourself) 2.  Objectives: characters could want one thing on the surface and another thing underneath( keep thinking about what to do to achieve what I want and what is the character ’ s ultimate goal) 3.  Psychophysical: what we are thinking and doing that works across the system. 4.  The super objective: ultimate theme of the whole play, the sum of all the objectives of the characters, what the play is really about.( keep this in mind can help you stay in the right track) 5.  Tempo-rhythm: both mental and physical pace. Pace of everything around us and everything we do. 6.  Clap the character: think about what pace the character should have and clap.

Stanislavsk system: a system for acting that enables actors to create truthful and believable characters. It is more about making system your own so you can use it to be a better actor. Active imagination: seeing things through our character ’ s eyes using the five senses. Magic if: use if to trigger the imagination of given circumstances. Every one of our movements onstage, every word must be the result of a truthful imagination. Free body: lay and forget all the feelings. Good warm up. Concentration practice:1. Rearrange furniture. 2. Remember the details of a painting. 3. Remember the details of a room in 10 seconds. Communication practice: express the color through a line of people without using language and facial expression. The practices will work only if you let yourself go and be open.