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Costumes The Active Centre KaBooM: for Performance Stories from Distant Frontlines

27’ | ML-Circus| DVD & Streaming RL-Active| e-book + 2 DVDs DLM-Kaboom |DVD & Streaming

To make good costumes for stage The exercises in The Active Centre KaBooM is a physical performance performances you need to “understand encourages the actor to explore event – its subject is War. what goes into an act and how costumes their unique response to dramatic KaBooM is based on real stories of will interact with the performer”. contradiction by demonstrating a soldiers who have fought on the A Documentary by Marianne Latham. series of Pilates-based exercises frontline. Australians who fled to with vocal integration. Lewis’ Costume Designer for world- this country to escape conflict and approach is to integrate voice renowned Circus of Oz, Laurel Frank build new lives. The tale of Fabrice - and body in diverse ways. With talks about her trade and how her a child soldier from Burundi, who hid contributions made by Joan Melton, designs take an integral role on stage. in lakes to escape machete wielding PhD, ADVS, pioneer of singing She uses traditional lycra and sequins hordes; the tale of Majid, who techniques and voice/movement with a modern and vivid twist. A deserted after fighting for 10 years training for the actor, Marie- colourful account on designing for in Saddam Hussein’s army; the tale Louise Bird, PhD, Dip Ed, MAPA, stage, working with performers and of Ivor, who, as a 16 year old escaped physiotherapist, academic and making art that must be applied with the Holocaust to fight for his family Pilates instructor, and Sara Redman, strict functionality. in the Pacific Islands along with a mentor, coach, speaker and author, guardian monkey. The Active Centre demonstrates the opposite tack to conventional voice Each of the 7 tales serves as a basis practices to strengthen and sharpen for 7 leading independent theatre the physic-vocal instrument. directors to create a theatrical response. They use the body of Disc 1: The Active Centre - e-Book one female performer and an Disc 2: Ultrasound demonstrations arsenal of contemporary theatrical using selected exercises from The weapons - projections, aerial work, Active Centre pulsing sound track from Bigtoxic - and elements – mud, water, Disc 3: Profuge - adapted from tomatoes, hay – to create a series of Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus, interlocking performance vignettes. performed by Voice Theatre Lab, 2011 Read more on our website > acting / directing

Director and Actor: Passions, How To Use The Beyond Stanislavski - Shifting and Sliding Working Forensically: Process and Intimacy Stanislavski System Oyston directs Chekhov Collaborative Directing in Contemporary Theatre

An in depth exploration of the Peter Oyston reveals how he com- Using an abridged version of The works examine and challenge A discussion between Richard complex and intimate relationship bines Stanislavski’s techniques in a Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD, the social, temporal and gender Murphet (Director/Writer) and between Actor and Director when systematic approach to provide a Oyston reveals how directors and constructs within which women Leisa Shelton (Director/Performer) working on a play-text. The core of full rehearsal process or a drama actors can apply the techniques of in particular live. They offer a about their years of collaboration the process presented in the film course in microcosm. An invaluable Stanislavski and develop them to positive vision of the feminine in directing, during which they have involves working with physical and resource for anyone interested in suit contemporary theatre. psyche as creative, productive and produced 5 new theatre works. (subsequent) emotional intensity the making of authentic theatre. resourceful. in the space, and crucially not imposing any preconceived ideas onto the work.

The Making of a Supporting Actors ONE: Healing with Theatre How to Audition Char∙ac∙ter Monologue

This video draws on rehearsal and Supporting Actors will be an It is a large scale performance Peter Oyston addresses a number A raw and candid dialogue about performance footage, reveals how invaluable tool for aspiring actors project centred around the of questions and demonstrates the life and craft of acting between Wilson created his unique one- and a fascinating behind-the opportunity of facilitating one-to- how to shape a speech, how to longtime colleagues and friends man performance of Hamlet and -scenes view for those interested one meetings between audience learn lines, how to prepare, how Dabney Coleman, Peter Falk, Charles captures the rich texture of Wilson’s in the thinking of theatre, television and performer and designed to to place images in space how to be Grodin, Sydney Pollack, Mark Rydell multi-dimensional theatrical style. and film industry pros. Directed by create a fulfilling and lasting quality flexible, daring and confident. and Harry Dean Stanton. Suzannah Warlick. of contact acting / directing

An Obsession with The TEAM Makes a Play The Art of Theatre, Film and Making War Horse Teachers on Acting Hamlet Television - An Introduction

John Bell has stamped the role of The inside story behind the making of The basic elements of theatre, film Making War Horse is the story of how Leading Australian teachers Hayes Hamlet as his own, having played it the TEAM’s award-winning Edinburgh and television performance - are Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning Gordon, Dean Carey and Murree numerous times over 35 years. Now and National Theatre hit, Mission explored in this educational video. and captivating children’s novel, Hutchinson discuss their approach he is handing on the baton to talented Drift. An exclusive view behind the This program visually develops and War Horse, became one of the most to the teaching of acting, with em- young actor Leon Ford (Changi) who scenes and inside the process and explains the concepts of art on stage popular and acclaimed productions phasis on specific improvisational moulds it into something fresh and the people. and on the screen, the basic concepts in the National Theatre’s history. techniques and the building of a exciting as Bell directs. Australia only. of dramatic conventions and how all character step-by-step. this impacts the audience.

Actors on Acting Actors on Acting The Shakespeare (Australian) Sessions

Murray Hamilton, James Earl Jones, Jack Australia’s leading actors critically de- With founders of The Royal Klugman and Rip Torn give opinions on construct their process, with particular Shakespeare Company and Kevin the lack of good roles, the incursions emphasis on TV and film: John Bell, Kline, Dustin Hoffman, Cynthia Nixon of television, Hollywood vs. Broadway, Lorraine Bayly, Noni Hazelhurst, Angela and David Hyde Pierce, in intimate rehearsal and experimentation, Punch McGregor. With absorbing workshop settings with John Barton keeping your day job, acting as a candour they discuss their techniques and Sir Peter Hall. Focusing on the sophisticated form of showing off, for making a character come alive language as the way into Shakespeare’s and why these stars went into acting and evoking authentic and believable magical world, these workshops bring themselves. emotional responses on stage. Shakespeare’s characters to life on stage. Acting / devising

Devising Performance Devising Celebration: Walyalup Dreaming 186’ | KD-Crossing | DVD & Streaming Engineers of the Imagination

Devising 1 - Documentary Devising 2 - Performances 23’ | CSU-Dev |DVD & Streaming 30’ | RS-Wal | DVD & Streaming

This documentary follows the Three performances from three different “CROSSING” projects one of Forced Entertainment visits This film explores how a traditional journey of a group of young people, which is documented on Part 1. The performances are the outcomes Australia. indigenous story is translated from from all corners of the globe, who of 3 weeks intensive devising and rehearsing. It is a truly intercultural an oral story into a performance were selected to work together experience about and for young people in the world. The film is a useful introduction to involving dance, puppetry, music for 3 weeks before the IDEA 2007 the theatre of image, large scale and voice. This can be used as a Congress began. dramatic construction techniques, tool to bring together ideas and processional theatre, outdoor the right people to create original performance and mask, ritual and performance. spectacle.

Speaking for Myself In Transit - The Great Deviser Ensemble Building How to Teach Artaud Hidden Directions Devising Work

This documentary film captures the Directors explain their processes and Filmed with companies from 3 Overcoming feelings of inhibitions and Practical approaches to working with core of New York City on a human principles: women directors who are continents, this disc contains creating an environment of intimacy, Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty. scale, focusing on the work of eight seeking a new way of working, their a feature film’s worth of edited trust and communication in an It provides examples of student’s widely varied performing artists: A own way of working, alternatives interviews, demonstrations, rehearsal educational setting. contains extensive work that are used as examplars of dancer, a concert pianist, an actress,a for the developing generation of footage and performance outcome footage of workshops, interviews, excellence for post 16 examinations. singing poet... etc. directors. clips from some of the world’s most examples of work and advice from These are combined with a wealth creative devisers - Goat Island (US), some of the world’s leading theatre of performance footage from Forced Entertainment (UK), Ushio practitioners. provides a wealth of professional companies, as well as Amagatsu/Sankai Juku (Japan). examples, ideas, games and methods interviews and practical exercises taken from professional practice. from leading Artaud practitioners. Contemporary Performance

Nigel Kellaway in Sleepers The Rameau Project Nigel Kellaway “Brief Synopsys... KaBooM: wake! wachet auf! (2 parts) Stories from Distant Frontlines

A man is at recollection, harboring A sprawling, multi-layered music The set of excerpts from ten major ... a beautiful naked woman ‘of a KaBooM is a physical performance a nagging desire to connect with theatre work, reveling in the grandeur, works by Nigel Kellaway (1994 - certain age’ brutally stabs a young event – its subject is War. It is based the present. Adrift from cultural delicacy, complexity and underlying 2004) has recently been assembled, man to death”. Rich elements of on real stories of soldiers who have and historical specifi-cities where wit of the French Baroque, it employs edited by Kellaway and his long-time music, physical space, visual arts, fought on the frontline. Men who nostalgia for Glenn Gould and Dean seductive improvisations on a associate, video artist Peter Oldham. text and movement. It contemplates fled to Australia to escape conflict Martin washes up alongside political complex layering of sophisticated violence, without relying on and build new lives. Each of the 7 anxiety and an unreliable memory. deceits. sensational anecdote. tales serves as a basis for 7 leading independent theatre directors to create a theatrical response. Read more on our website > Jenny Kemp: Jenny Kemp: The Black Blowback K Mac-Beth 7 Still Angela Sequin Dress, Remember

A multi-sided portrait of a contem- Part 1. Black Sequin Dress Using the body and video as double K fuses hard-core physical action, A play about self-love and self-loathing. porary Australian woman at three An investigation into the psyche agents, not yet it’s difficult inves- digital technology, sonic achitec- Mac-Beth 7 is a contemporary ages. Using film shot in the out-back, and its ability to function creatively. tigates the dark and violent world tures and new texts to portray the performance for theatre with a cast of choreography, an original score Part 2. Remember of an Australia subject to a new dark, humorous and violent world actors, opera singers, a contemporary and a cast of performers, It paints a A young woman has been raped and imperial master. BLOWBACK tracks of democracy in the Information Age. dancer and an eight-year-old girl. picture of a woman in transition on a believes she has killed her assailant... the story of cultural activists who It is a performance recording of the surreal journey. Part 3. Interview with Jenny Kemp hack into New Australia’s joint 2002 Melbourne season. communications facility. The Sydney Front Contemporary Performance

Staging the Audience: The Sydney Front: The Sydney Front: The Sydney Front Don Juan First and Last Warning Over the course of the seven years they worked together (1986-1993), the performers of The Sydney Front transformed themselves from the extravagant display of frenzied divas in their first work, Waltz (1987), to stage managers invisibly influencing the actions of the audience as they enacted The Stations of the Cross in Passion (1993). 63’ | CGR-Sydney | DVD & Streaming 63’ | CGR-Donjuan | DVD & Streaming 63’ | CGR-First | DVD & Streaming An extraordinary collection of contemporary theatre This film presents a kaleidoscope of In Don Juan, The Sydney Front ‘The audience is divided. Those who work... images and archive footage from all created what Le Soir (Brussels) can afford it are escorted to their seven of The Sydney Front’s major described as a ‘chiaroscuro of taboo private viewing area, to be served works. desires’ and the Rheinische Post champagne and smoked salmon (Dusseldorf) ‘a wild cacophonous throughout the show. The rest risk yearning’. the edges of the performance space, clad only in black lingerie.

The Sydney Front: John The Sydney Front: The Sydney Front: The Sydney Front: The The Sydney Front: Waltz Laws/Sade: a confession Passion Photocopies of God Pornography of Performance

In John Laws/Sade the world is Passion takes up the theme of The film presents images of a A frenzied meditation on theatrical Built from a series of entrances and colder, the genitals sit tight. We are SACRIFICE that plays through all the theatre struggling to move beyond obsession, a festive overture of monologues chopped up from the in densely occupied territory. The work of The Sydney Front, leading its the exchange of desires, beyond histrionic suffering and flapping Greek canon, this show began as telephone rings, the radio is always audience into a re-enactment of the even the carnal itself. The perfor- genitalia.’ - Poster for The Pornography a work about women and war but on. Stations of the Cross. mers attempt to break the endless of Performance, 1988 turned into a work about the diva cycle of impersonation and to submit performing the monologues. themselves to the supreme gaze. WORKSHOPS Physical / visual theatre

Physical Theatre 2: A Physical Theatre: Expressive Gestures Self Discovery in a In practice: Frank Suzuki workshop in Biomechanics Butoh and Beyond Silver Room Actor Knowhow

A documentary of a workshop. A documentary of a workshop by Alternatives to realism Gestures The Frank Suzuki Actor Knowhow is It’s a rather humorous explanation The aim of the workshop was to Cheryl Heazlewood in Perth in carry messages, very often an occidental variant of the original of the Frank Suzuki Actor Knowhow introduce the basic principles and 1996. Cheryl presents powerful and unintentionally. Expressive gestures Suzuki Actor Training Method, with extra done in full HD, using Ozfrank’s the vocabulary of Biomechanics to inspiring training exercises which reflect the person’s inner emotional exercises that add Western zing to the schematic almanac as a backdrop. the participating actors, teachers and are drawn from her eclectic training or mental state. The focus of the Asian depth, proving Suzuki’s universal It has 3 tracks, an explanation students in theatre arts. in occidental and oriental movement film is on GESTURES and their application. of the exercises, an advertorial and theatre. “imaginative” application in non- and an exposition of the various realistic performance. inspirations.

Neutral Mask Ryszard Cieslak: Corporal Mime Training at Grotowski’s Physical Training at (4 parts) The Body Speaks “Laboratorium” in Wrozlaw Odin Teatret in 1972

A Foundation for the Theatrical The leading actor in Jerzy Grotowski’s Yves Lebreton, who features in this The evolution of Jerzy Grotowski’s Recommended for universities, libraries Experience. This film will take you “Polish Laboratory Theater”, film, was Etienne Decroux’s student training is shown in a pedagogical and professionals. Odin Teatret’s through the learning process, as it was demonstrates body exercises used for four years in Paris. He shows situation in which Ryszard Cieslak, physical training with commentary by actually experienced by the students by the avant garde company. Cieslak in two parts the training program the main actor of the Theatre Labo- Eugenio Barba, showing its evolution participating in a professional also discusses his approach with of the famous French Mime. At the ratorium works with two students. from collectively learned skills to the program in London. theater critic Margaret Croyden. end of each part of the film he gives Recommended for universities, libraries actor’s individualization of exercises. examples. and professionals. WORKSHOPS Physical / visual theatre

100 Pathways to A Playwright’s Physical Acting: The Expressionist Creativity Manuscript Characters Theatre of OzFrank

CIRCUS SKILLS The only available Jenny de Reuck’s research and Animal imitation. This book offers an This film samples 5 minutes excerpts instructional video which teaches practice include the diverse approach, which is beyond the easy from Ozfranks 20 year repertoire. the basics of JUGGLING, STILLTS, fields of Theatre in Education and way of imitating a monkey, a bird or a 16 plays directed by Jacqui Carroll UNICYCLING, ACROBATICS, WIRE Shakespearean adaptations but snake. The revelation of a character from 1993 to the present , plus an WALKING. Reg Bolton explains all the her primary objective is to offer in its physical and psychological example of its training system, the secrets while teaching a groups of her students and their audiences a complexity requires in-depth analysis, Frank Suzuki Actor Knowhow. year 8 students. provocative theatrical experience. comprehension of non-verbal cues and most of all, imagination. Martial Arts for Actor Training Kendo: Fencing: The art, science, The Practice of Arms Actor Training and Kalarippayatt, The Path of the Sword and the passion Kalarippayatt, Martial Art Martial Arts of India of India

An examination of Kendo, the This 6-part documentary introduces An educational video dedicated Supporting Actors will be an Phillip Zarrilli explores a wide range “senior” Japanese martial art, a you to the intensely competitive to instructing the student or invaluable tool for aspiring actors of basic physical movements. Part form of stylized sword fighting using actions of the sports fencer and professional actor, stunt man, and a fascinating behind-the I demonstrates the basic poses, bamboo staves. This documentary, the elegant traditional moves of the historical recreationist or sword -scenes view for those interested steps, jumps and kicks. Part II shot on location in Japan, includes classical duelist. Through exiting aficionado in the use of the blade. in the thinking of theatre, television shows how various weapons are explanations of kendo formalities, close-ups, the fast moving action It teaches the basic footwork, and film industry pros. Directed by incorporated into the advanced its appeal at all levels of society, of duelling weapons are captured defensive and offensive techniques Suzannah Warlick. stages of physical training. Slides and comparisons with other martial with a clarity rarely seen on TV or for both cutting and thrusting and a short film clip illustrate this arts. in movies. weapons. section. Physical / visual theatre

Creating Physical Theatre Andre Serban: Andre Serban: Black Symphony Masters of Street Theatre The Body in Performance Experimental Theater The Greek Trilogy Genet on Film

Strategies and methods used to A profile of the experimental theatre Performance of excerpts from off- A physical theatre version of Jean A unique snapshot of the brilliant work generate physical action and looks director, including conversation Broadway experimental productions Genet’s play The Blacks was performed of some of the world’s acclaimed street at the relationship between text with critic Margaret Croyden and of Andre Serban’s flamboyant in a cellar-theatre in Budapest by the theatre groups: Grouppe F, Studio and movement. It also explores reflections by director and theatre interpretations of classic Greek Theatre alternative theatre company, Domino Festi, Le Quidams, Bambuco and the choreographing and scoring of producer Joseph Papp and Ellen pieces: Euripides’ Electra, Medea in 1970. The company was regularly Ulrich - Le Snob. Outdoor theatre with physical action, including proxemics Stewart, owner of Café La Mama in and The Trojan Women. Margaret banned by the Communist regime. elements of sculpture installations, live and sequencing. Includes interviews, New York City. With Excerpts from Croyden provides introductions and The Blacks was closed down after only music, pyrotechnology, extraordinary rehearsal footage, demonstrations Serban’s workshop production of commentary. With music by Elizabeth a few performances after tickets were costums and open-air settings. and performance from some of The Master and the Margarita. Swados. sold for triple price on the blackmarket. the world’s best and most physical practitioners. voice & Body

Odin Teatret - Voice and the Core / Dr Faustus (2 parts) IAM NOCTE The Third Space Vocal Training White Dark (2 parts)

It focuses on Odin Teatret’s use The work is an integration of An Exploration of Voice, Sound This adaptation is a theatrical The film is a compilation of exercises of text as vocal action. It includes voice and body; the connection and Body. The production of ‘Dr experience that combines vocal that consolidate body, voice and work with various body resonators, of thought, feeling, breath, voice Faustus’ explores abstract imagery sounds, physical theatre, vocal and imagination which have grown and exercises which engage the voice as and the core muscle groups. It through voice and body. It also physical expression of abstract developed since the Voice Theatre an extension of the body, and vocal demonstrates to the performer that includes training session focusing imagery with preverbal expressions, Lab inception in 2006. They have improvisations based on a stream tension and freedom are equally on vocal actions, energies and the holistic utterances, abstract use of been refined through thorough of personal associations. as important and are essential for image. English and Latin. extensive research, practice and performance. exploration.

NEW! PERFORMANCE [RE]SEARCH: PERFORMANCE [RE]SEARCH: PERFORMANCE [RE]SEARCH: PERFORMANCE [RE]SEARCH: The Active Centre Disappeariences Living is a Horizontal Fall Silent Moves Crossing Body Shadow

Disappeariences was the first work An Adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s Moves was an assemblage of ideas The work gathered around The exercises in The Active Centre in a trilogy that explored elements Opium: A Diary of a Cure. Living and performances opened up investigations of internal and external encourages the actor to explore of human experience and the Is A Horizontal Fall was designed during two weeks of collaborative corporeal modalities and explored their unique response to dramatic ways in which they are translated and produced as part of the workshopping that gathered their reverberations on and within contradiction by demonstrating a or communicated through acts of International Theatre Festival in around speculations about internal disciplines of “performance”. series of Pilates-based exercises performance, particularly focussing Casablanca, at Theatre De Sidi and external corporeal modalities. with vocal integration. Lewis’ on those elements of experience. Belyout and the Institut Francais, approach is to integrate voice and September, 1995. body in diverse ways. theatre makers

Augusto Boal & Theatre of Meyerhold’s Theater Dario Fo and Franca the Oppressed in Rio De and Biomechanics Rame: A Nobel For Two Janeiro

It is a record of the work of a theatre Russian actor Gennadi Bogdanov is The video features performance maestro undertaking a daring shown to present the most impor- excerpts from classic Dario Fo and difficult experiment in overtly tant etudes and principles of Bio- plays such as Mistero Buffo and melding the concerns of theatre, mechanics. The video also displays Accidental Death of an Anarchist, therapy and politics. An account of recent scenic work from Europe plus interviews with Fo and Rame, a theatre company that is elected and the USA developed from the and numerous theatrical colleagues into public office. basis of Meyerhold’s Biomechanics. and associates.

Foreman Planet: The Seven Faces of Richard Foreman Robert Lepage

75’ | KD-For | DVD & Streaming

Video interview with 9 time “OBIE” winner Richard Foreman, writer, director, designer, choreographer and founder of Ontological Hysterical Theatre, in New York City. A visionary experimental theatre artist of four decades, Foreman talks about his creative processes, about psychic freedom, about reality, realism and realistic 52’ | MP-Lepage | DVD & Streaming theatre, And about collisions of objects and words with primary This documentary shows this impulse. Foreman also shares brilliant artist at work. In a revealing his private feelings and concerns interview, Lepage discusses how about living and working as an he works with actors and other artist in New York City today. The members of his troupe. In addition, video interview is broken up by the actors rehearsing one of Lepage’s fascinating images of Photographer creations, The Seven Streams of the Paula Court offering a visual River Ota, share their impressions feast and a “beyond-intellectual of how their own work has evolved understanding” of Foreman’s work. with the playwright. Throughout, Lepage’s plays - Vinci, theatre makers

Samuel Beckett Arthur Miller Interview with Interview with Jean-Paul Sartre and As The Story Was Told Eugene Ionesco Henry Miller Simone de Beauvoir

Manuscripts of his most famous Omnibus talks to playwright Arthur Ionesco speaks about his childhood, In this brilliant interview, Henry Miller Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) and works, a series of previously Miller at his Connecticut home about his studies, the type of theatre he (1891-1980) describes the motivation Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), two of unpublished letters and remarkable the political and poetic nature of his enjoyed in his youth, his original and inspiration that guided his the most influential and controversial photographs contribute to making plays, about being a writer in the personality, and his constant need writings. He talks about his self- thinkers of our time, are presented in this programme an intimate portrait US today, and about his marriage to for solitude.He also discusses the imposed exile to Europe and Paris, this unique documentary originally of a dramatic and original writer. Marilyn Monroe. absurdity of our world and our his return to the U.S., censorship, broadcast in 1967 and photographed The life of Irish novelist, poet, and inability to communicate. His plays fame and the importance of reading. by Michel Brault, one of Canada’s playwright Samuel Beckett is profiled draw on parody and symbolism to most distinguished documentary in this two-part documentary. BBC Arts Documentaries denounce the absurdity of life and cameramen and filmmakers. social relationships. Harold Pinter: Early Work Jerzy Grotowski Jerzy Grotowski David Mamet: The Peter Brook 1973 Interview Playwright as Director

Performance of excerpts from two The director of the Polish Lab The man of 1969, neatly dressed in Playwright David Mamet rehearses An interview with the great director very early works: The Room and A Theatre talks with theatre critic jacket and tie and with a conventional Lindsay Crouse and Michael Higgins just after he returned from Africa Slight Ache, filmed in 1965 when Margaret Croyden (translated haircut, resembled, at the time of in scenes from two of his plays, Dark with his Centre of Research, his group they played at the Writers Stage by Jacques Chwat, theatre this interview in 1973, something Pony and Reunion. Discussion of the of young actors based in Paris. Brook in New York City. This program director). Grotowski discusses the of a “hippie.” Yet he speaks here art of directing and the Stanislavsky explains his views on theatre, cross- includes a brief interview with relationship between director and with the same intensity, true to his method. cultural performances, improvisation, director Word Baker. actor, a playwright’s function and personal search. Illustrated with Shakespeare and working with young the idea of his “poor” theatre that photographs by Max Waldman. actors. renounces everything not essential Interviewer Margaret Croyden. to the work. theatre makers

American Theatre Conversations: Edward Albee’s ‘The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Examined’ Actors Studio 28’ | CAT-Ame| DVD & Streaming 27’ | CAT-Ed| DVD & Streaming Members of The Actors Studio and The Production Board of the Actors A vibrant discussion of Edwarde Albee’s new (1963) play “ The Ballad of the Sad Studio Theater: Geraldine Page, Paul Newman, Frank Corsaro, Michael Wager, Cafe” shortly after it opened in New York City. In closely-reasoned dispute Rip Torn, and Fred Stewart discuss their training at The Actors Studio and are the play’s director, Alan Schneider; and respected theater professionals goals for The Actors Studio Theater. Harold Clurman and Robert Brustein.

Athol Fugard: ‘Blood Knot’ 28’ | CAT-Ath | DVD & Streaming German Theatre of Protest: 1918-1938 27’ | CAT-German | DVD & Streaming A rare filmed recording of excerpts from the original New York production of Athol Fugard’s first important play. With the original cast of that production: Between the two world wars, often considered part of the European James Earl Jones and J.D. Cannon. South African playwright, director and “Expressionist” movement, was, in its most inventive aspects, a theater of actor Fugard (b. 1932) has been writing for several decades about the lives of opposition. The plays are “Gas” by George Kaiser, “Hoopla! Such is Life!” by blacks and poor whites in South Africa. Ernst Toller, and “The Private Life of the Master Race” by Bertolt Brecht. British Theatre in the United States The Group Theater Discussion with Harold 28’ | CAT-Bri| DVD & Streaming Clurman, Bobby Lewis, Lee Strasberg 28’ | CAT-Grou| DVD & Streaming Discussion of theater, acting, British versus American audiences, and schools of acting with Alexander Cohen, producer of the David Storey play Home Three distinguished theater producer-directors recapture the heady days of and its two stars, the renowned British actors Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph the famous Group Theater and discuss its origins, successes, failures, and Richardson. eventual decline.

The Circle in the Square: The First 25 Years Gogol’s ‘Diary of a Madman’ 28’ | CAT-Gog| DVD & Streaming 85’ | CAT-Cir| DVD & Streaming An adaptation of the off-Broadway production of Gogol’s work, “Diary of a In honest, revealing and often humorous reminiscences Dustin Hoffman, Madman”, performed by William Hickey, about a clerk’s disintegration into Colleen Dewhurst, George C. Scott, James Earl Jones, Paul Rudd and Vanessa madness. Redgrave discuss acting, ambition, and their life with The Circle in the Square. Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theater Conversation with Playwrights: Arthur Miller & 55’ | CAT-Jos | DVD & Streaming Israel Horovitz 26’ | CAT-ConPlay| DVD & Streaming The group in “Nightwalk”, its last performance piece before disbanding. The Conversation between Arthur Miller and then (1970) quite young successful play is a collective theater work, the creation of writers Jean-Claude van writer Israel Horovitz about theater, the writer, playwriting and politics, Itallie, Sam Shepard, Megan Terry, and Open Theater director Joseph Chaikin, and the responsibility of the artist to society. Pulitzer Prize-winning author as well as the actors. Miller’s plays included “The Crucible”, “All My Sons”, “Death of a Salesman”, etc. Joseph Papp and the Public Theatre: American Play- wrights 54’ | CAT-Pap | DVD & Streaming Dudley Moore & Peter Cook Improvise 28’ | CAT-Dud | DVD & Streaming Theater writer-critic Margaret Croyden interviews Papp and the playwrights whose works are seen. The plays highlighted are David Freeman’s “Jessie British film and stage stars Dudley Moore and Peter Cook spend half an hour and the Bandit Queen”, John Guare’s “Rich and Famous”, and Myrna Lamb’s bantering and improvising, ostensibly in an interview by arts critic Leonard “Apple Pie”. Harris in connection with their appearance in New York City to present their hilarious revue “Good Evening”. theatre makers

Lee Strasberg Interview 28’ | CAT-Lee | DVD & Streaming The Open Theater: Andre Gregory Interview 29’ | CAT-Open | DVD & Streaming Interview with performance segments from class of The Actors Studio at the Lee Strasberg Acting Institute. He teaches a class at Actors Studio, a lesson Demonstration of acting exercises, and performance by members of the on walking, and analyzes two students rehearsing a scene from Chekhov’s Open Theater of an excerpt from their new (1975) production, “Fable.” “Uncle Vanya.” Interview with director Andre Gregory about preparatory training at his Manhattan Project theater group. Themes: Sound and gesture, silence and The Living Theater Performance 28’ | CAT-Liv | DVD & Streaming movement are explored. Conversation with Judith Malina, Julian Beck. The Living Theater Company performs two segments from their “Mysteries and Smaller Pieces”: “The Brig The Open Theatre: Terminal - Performance Dollar” and “The Plague.” The excerpts are introduced by founder-directors 28’ | CAT-Ope | DVD & Streaming Bertolt Brecht: Practice 28’ | CAT-Ber Julian Beck and Judith Malina. Performance of experimental theater pieces by the Open Theater Ensemble: Pieces Shami Chaikin, Tina Shepard, Jo-Ann Schmidman, Paul Zimet, Raymond DVD & Streaming Lotte Lenya sings Kurt Weill 25’ | CAT-Lot| DVD & Streaming Barry, Henry Smith. This group that prides itself on developing theater as a This is a videotaped recording of a collaborative effort. The pieces are portions of the ensemble’s current off- Theater songs by Kurt Weill, texts by Bertolt Brecht, performed mostly in performance, in English translation, Broadway production “Terminal”. the original German by Weill’s widow, the celebrated actress/singer Lotte of two of Bertolt Brecht’s largely Lenya. Selections, from “Mahoganny”, “The Threepenny Opera”, also “Moon unknown and seldom performed of Alabama”, “Surabaya Johnny”, “Bilbao Lied”, “Pirate Jenny” (in English), and Two Russian Stories of the 19th Century, Dramatized works, Übungstücke für Schauspieler “Lied des Ertrunkenen Maedchen”. 40’ | CAT-2Rus| DVD & Streaming and Practice Pieces for Actors. Nikolai Gogol’s “A Night with Chichikov” is an excerpt from his novel “Dead Brecht: A Man’s A Man A Master of Burlesque 28’ | CAT-Burl | DVD & Streaming Souls”, first published in 1842. Cast: Myron McCormick, Dorothy Greener, 27’ | CAT-Bre| DVD & Streaming Many famous stage performers started in burlesque, including W.C.Fields, Gerald Hiken, Edith King, Salem Ludwig, Alice Pearce, Bernard West. Anton Fannie Brice, Mae West, Bert Lahr and Al Jolson. In this program one of the Chekhov’s “Enemies” was published in 1887. Cast: Michael Strong and Introduces scenes from Bertolt last masters of burlesque, Steve Mills, recreates a few of the famous set Richard Waring. Brecht’s play-with-songs “Mann pieces that audiences knew and loved. Ist Mann”. The performance seen A Sampling of French Theater here is the then (1962) current off- Masters of the French Stage: Jean-Louis 27’ | CAT-Sam| DVD & Streaming Broadway production, at a time Barrault and Madeleine Renaud when Brecht’s popularity in America Performance illustrated discussion of 20th century French theater and 28’ | CAT-Mas | DVD & Streaming was high after the revival of his “The its importance, with some comparisons to American theater. Scenes from Threepenny Opera.” They present the bittersweet jealousy scene from Moliere’s “Le Misanthrope” Anouilh’s “Ardel” and Giraudoux’s “The Enchanted” - at the time (1958) and recitations from other works of French drama and poetry, among them playing in New York City. Songs of Bertolt Brecht: Jacques Prevert’s “Bird”, Paul Valois’ “Liberté”, and a charming fable about animal intelligence. Barrault performs his famous circus horse riding William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying”: Two Versions Gisela May Sings Brecht pantomine. 55’ | CAT-Will | DVD & Streaming 27’ | CAT-Son| DVD & Streaming From “Threepenny Opera”: “Mack Max Frish 27’ | CAT-Max | DVD & Streaming An excerpt from the celebrated novel is here interpreted in two different ways. Dramatization (1956). A sampling of the book’s fifteen narrators, in the Knife”, and “Pirate Jenny”. From Excerpts from the 1964 off-Broadway production of Max Frisch’s plays monologues and dramatic scenes. Dance/Drama (1965). Excerpts of a dance “Happy End” the song “Surabaya “Andorra” and “I’m Not Stiller”, with an interview with the celebrated Swiss interpretation by choreographer/dancer/actress Valerie Bettis. Johnny.” From “Mother Courage”: novelist and playwright. His work has been described as “Kafkaesque”, “Lied des Solomons.” From coming at the terror of alienation obliquely. “Spare us the necessity,” says a “Schweyk in the Second World War”: jailer in one of the plays, “of condemning you to be yourself.” “Das Moldau Lied.” From “The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny”: “Alabama Song”. And more... Puppetry

Puppetry and Spectacle: The Lovers’ Exile Behind The Scenes with Contemporary Performance Work by Jessica Wilson Julie Taymor: Setting a Scene

91’ | JW-Pup | DVD & Streaming

Part 1 features excerpts of seven Sellected Works by Jessica Wilson, including: Stormy Night, Frankenstein, Dream Masons, Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear, The Western Ring Cycle, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Under the Big Sky.

Part 2 is a full performance of Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear. This theatre work has captivated audiences with its intriguing story, beautiful integration of art-forms, quirky aesthetic, and engaging performance style. Through a distinctive combination of puppetry, stop motion animation, original music and physical performance, this production playfully explores the ethical 90’ | MG-Lov | DVD & Streaming 30’ | BS-Tay | DVD & Streaming dilemmas faced by society, as new developments are made in health and From Japan to contemporary cinema Taymor, one of theatre’s most fertility. A contemporary moral tale, it draws on the traditional structure audiences, merging the artistry and inventive directors, transforms words of fables to raise questions about the remarkable futures and modern day grace of the legendary Bunraku on a page into verbal and visual miracles promised by science. Puppet Theatre with the power of the magic using puppets, masks, music screen through the collective talent and actors. Children learn about of many international contributors. the process of creation that shapes Performed entirely by the Bunraku theatrical productions and practice Ensemble of Osaka, widely considered creating their own imagery and the most sophisticated puppet characters through in-class activities. theatre in the world. Strings of Peace: Bunraku - Classical Brother Bread, Sister Puppetry: Puppets in the French The World of Puppets Japanese puppet art Puppet - Street theatre Worlds of Imagination Style and political satire

By Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop, Includes performances from two This documentary profile focuses on This documentary surveys the The celebrated French puppeteers featuring puppets and puppeteers traditional Bunraku dramas and filmed Bread and Puppet Theatre annual revolutionary new developments in Compagnie Philippe Genty demon- from Sweden, Denmark, Thailand, scenes showing how the puppets are Domestic Resurrection Circus. American puppet theater, profiling strate their artistry with several England, Pakistan, Italy, Belgium, made and articulated. They’re famous for street theater many of puppetry’s most imaginative different kinds of figures, ranging Korea, Poland, France, Switzerland and political satire utilizing giant contemporary artists, including Basil from the human to the dreamlike. and India, the video offers a “cultural “papier-mâché” puppets, masks and Twist, E Ralph Lee, Michael Curry, feast”. 12 foot high stilt walkers. Cheryl Henson... etc. Theatre Du Mouvement

The Mutants Another Short Hour The Letter Mime’s Great and Small Stories Established in 1975 by its present artistic directors, Claire Heggen and Yves Marc, the Theatre du Mouvement has been seen in sixty countries.

Expert and entertaining, 37’ | TDM-Mutant | DVD & Streaming 65’ | TDM-Another | DVD & Streaming 46’ | TDM-Letter | DVD & Streaming 179’ | TDM-Mime | DVD & Streaming their work has been The first professional collaboration Where acrobatics meets the Two actors continuously onstage. Part 1: Should We Take Mimes at a major influence in between Claire Heggen and Yves musicality of movement, humanity A man carries a woman. A law of Their Word? Part 2: Under The Marc. Since its creation, it has meets tragedy and the game of physics which becomes a dramatic White Mask the development of obtained the Edinburgh Fringe acting meets the enunciation of game: she must not leave the sun. Festival’s First Award and toured musical texts. Three men, barefoot, This is a story of love in a time of contemporary mime and Africa, America, Asia and Europe. in shirts and ties approach the war. visual theatre. edges of an unknown space in three wooden boxes...

The Seat, OR A Chronicle The Lost Song of Little Theatre du Mouvement The Theatre du Embodied Theatre of Chronic Fear Nothings Children’s Collection Mouvement in Africa

This piece was born out of research A spectacle which unfolds like Includes: Catherine and the Black Masks and White Masks, Part 1: If the Mona Lisa Had Legs: A into themes of fear. Exploring the turning of pages, constructed Wardrobe, A Funny Home, Krops 8 mins, 1986. Tezirzek, 18 mins, Show-Conference, Part 2: The Path the physicality of this emotion, as a succession of fleeting and the Magiciel, Little Cepou, Bugs. 1990. is Made by Walking, Part 3: I Think the actors created fascinating windows looking onto the usually Therefore It Shows characters. They attempt to retain unexamined occurrences of daily their seat, a place of comfort and life. A show that combines the security, their symbolic property, in precision of anthropology with a chorus that is moving, tragic and the imperfectness of subjective funny. observation. ODIN TEATRET

Odin Teatret: Odin teatret: Odin Teatret: Odin Teatret: Dona Odin Teatret: Ascent to the Sea The Castle of Holstebro The Dead Brother Musica’s Butterflies Dressed in White

Spaces in the town, which normally The sequence in HAMLET which THE DEAD BROTHER is the perfor- It is the story of a character evaded A strolling player arrives in a small went unnoticed, were transformed begins with the dialogue of the mance about how performances from a performance - Kaosmos - village in southern Italy. She is i n t o a s t a g e . T h e fi l m f o l l o w s t h e O d i n gravediggers and concludes with are made at Odin Teatret. THE that tells the story of her origins masked. She always carries her Teatret’s street theatre production the outburst of the Prince against DEAD BROTHER describes the and narrates her adventures with drum with her... The public solitude “Anabasis” in Peru - which typifies Laertes has two more protagonists: stages of the work, which starting arguments of theatre entomology, of the actor’s journey is presented the Odin’s unique use of the urban Yorick and Ophelia, the skull of the from a poetic text become a “poem with theories of modern physics lyrically and realistically in this environment as a theatrical space. jester and the maid from whose in space”: the performance. and with poems and tales. fictional film, whose title is taken flesh violets will grow. from an Italian folk song.

Odin Teatret: Odin Teatret: In The Odin Teatret: Kaosmos Odin Teatret: Odin Teatret: On the Two The Echo of Silence Beginning Was The Idea The Million Banks of the River

A performance which describes the T h e fi lm IN T HE B EG INNIN G WA S T HE A village in the heart of Europe; Marco Polo was the firs t European to The film, which shows how Odin vicissitudes of the voice of an actor IDEA is based on the performance doors like walls and walls like doors. explore the Far East. He told about Teatret managed to play their and the stratagems she invents to by Odin Teatret: “The Gospel Every Spring the villagers perform everything he had seen. His listeners performances and come into contact “interpret” a text. The voice of the According to Oxyrhincus”. Between “The Ritual of the Door”. The theme laughed and called him “Millione”, with people, in spite of the restrictive actor and the text presented to the 1985 and 1987 it was performed in of the performance is a common because everything he described conditions, is essentially about the spectators compose the music of a 12 countries in Europe and South one in mythology and folklore. was a million times more incredible strategy of insubordination by means performance. America. than anything they had imagined. of theatre. ODIN TEATRET productions

Odin Teatret: Traces in the Snow Odin Teatret: Theatre Meets Ritual Whispering Winds

This film shows barters in Kuripe, a Every performance tells a story. A film version of Odin Teatret ‘s “ Venezuelan negro village, and with The actress carries on a dialogue Whispering Winds”, directed by the Yanomami, an Indian tribe of with the secrets which precede and Eugenio Barba. A performance- the Upper Orinoco in Amazonia. It follow the building of a character demonstration about the differ- includes Yanomami dances and the and the creation of a performance ence between theatre and dance. shaman’s enactment of his tribal - and in the process, she exposes legend about the tortoise which these very secrets. killed the jaguar.

A One Woman Show: Black Rooster The Pessoptimist On the Edge: Madeleine Kitten Chinese Take Away

Based on the stories of performer/ With music based on the Sawung The Pessoptimist - Saeed, the Madeleine is an exploration of Kitten – a bi-polar soap trip – opera writer Anna Yen’s grandmother, Galing myth from Java Indonesia, Donkey, & the Israeli Big Man... “a schizophrenia and it’s effect on a A drama in three acts: from tragic, to mother and herself, using a Black Rooster draws the audience message to earthlings from outer young woman and her family. It is manic, to sonic. The play attempts unique blend of storytelling, circus into a wild and fantastic world space.” What is the difference the second in a cycle of new works, to capture the Bi-Polar experience skills, clowning, movement and where despots sow confusion and between a pessimist and an optimist by Black Sequin Productions, in it’s form as well as content. This magic. The play travels from one cultivate prejudices amongst the living in Israel? The pessimist says exploring mental illness. The first is achieved by the externalising of generation to another. people to maintain their power. things can’t get any worse while the was Kitten – a bi polar soap opera, the internal experience of Kitten. optimist says they can. premiered at the Melbourne This is further augmented by the International Festival for the Arts character of Kitten being played by in 2008. three performers. productions

Hedda Gabler The Bald Soprano Three Experimental Small Poppies The Show Short American Plays

Fiona Shaw recreates her West End With music by American composer RATS by Israel Horovitz - Written This fascinating documentary gives *WINNER Best Tertiary Educational role in this intimate and bleak version Martin Kalmanoff and state-of- 1969, Video Produced 2006, 25 mins. a detailed insight into the staging Resource Award at the 2003 ATOM of Ibsen’s classic, Hedda Gabler. Shaw the- art video techniques. The OUR LITTLE TRIP by Lawrence of the successful play, “Small Awards. A fly-on-the-wall look plays a woman set uncomfortably out young and talented cast offers Ferlinghetti - Written 1964, Video Poppies” in which adult actors at the personalities, challenges, of her time, who is determined not to solid vocal artistry and perfectly- Produced 1989, 12 mins. play 5 year olds on their first day triumphs and traumas of the world be restrained by her husband Tesman’s pitched comic acting, resulting in a of school, through rehearsal and of community theatre. What are the (Nicholas Woodeson) bourgeois delightful comic opera in English of SOAP OPERA by Ralph Pape - performance. skills and personal qualities needed values. It is her determination that a major theatrical work. Written 1983, Video Produced 1991, to stage a piece of community brings the drama to its startling and 53 mins. theatre? Available in AU only. brutal conclusion. Eden After Midnight Length of 100 Needles Embodied Humility / Summer in Ivye Opus about Plain

It powerfully illustrates the mental It gives an insight into life on the Josef Nadj plays a magician. Objec ts, Part 1 documents Nadj’s creative With warmth and humor, the film and physical harm produced by sprawling puszta of Bácska. Melding sounds, spaces and people change method, from initial rehearsals captures the group’s attempts to dictatorships in 20th century percussion, dance, live music, their meaning and function at each through to the premiere. In Part 2 transcend differences in language, Central-Europe. It shows how motion picture and puppetry, Nagy moment on stage – in an almost Nadj sets himself a new challenge religion and culture in order to tell ordinary people try to defend uses a unique artistic language to imperceptible way. Still, deep as he digresses from the stage, a moving story of love and loss. themselves spiritually and mentally. portray human endeavor in all its down, they all remain themselves building and devising theatre in an Produced by Lori Cheatle, Directed glory and disappointment. in this perpetual variation. Despite unaccustomed space. by Tamar Rogoff and Daisy Wright. his use of myth, iconography and discontinuity, the characters become familiar and personal. productions

Heavy Metal Hamlet Salome Doll Seventeen Hamlet Stooged! Midsummer Night’s Romeos

In behaviour veering between levity In Salome the combination of dra- This work has a mystical aura In this short and sharp one-act take Director Jacqui Carroll has twinned and solemnity; savagery and courtesy; matic form within a lyrical poetic through the use of imagery that on Hamlet, Ozfrank respectfully Shakespeare’s play to make a irony and pathos; Hamlet reveals to us, framework draws the work into the is both cartoon-like and surreal. turns Shakespeare to squarely modern masque, a parade of dream in a series of images, the hysteria of his fantastic. The myth blended with Ninety percent of the dialogue has face the standup comedy genre. like fantasy characters that disport emotions. the symbolic create a heady mix. In been replaced by movement and The boy/man, accompanied by dog themselves in the ancient and this production this mix is recreated music that is entertaining, poignant Horatio and his air guitar, turns up modern agonies and ecstasies of through a veil of sound & music. and witty. in a bizarre dream/nightmare world. love.

Oedipus Rex Manga Ulysses The Romance of Orpheus Rashomon Everyman: The Reckoning of Badengood

Oedipus, with passion and energy, Having greatly angered the gods, The age-old tale of Orpheus’ Based on a short story by Japanese With an amusing and common touch, battles against the forces of destiny. Ulysses, attempting to return to his journey to the Underground to get author Akutagawa, it tells the tale the dialogue is rendered into a Those eternal, implacable forces, home in Ithaca, faces many trials back his beloved Eurydice, cruelly of an encounter between a robber, modern elastic vernacular. This is an according to the ancient Greeks, and tribulations on this journey. bitten by a snake and taken by a traveler and his wife.All three gi\ old fashioned story given a succinct govern everyone’s lives. This celebrated story is shown here Hades, is here told in a gripping ve their version of an encounter on contemporary wit by Ozfrank Theatre. within a big movement/theatre/ ritual of movement and sound. a mountain track which alters their Still true after all these years! music event. lives forever. college / school productions

BAAL - by Bertolt Brecht The Bulgar’s Tale Following Brecht’s footsteps

75’ | STA-Baal | DVD & Streaming BC-Bulgar | DVD

Brecht’s argument seems to be that Disc 1: PDF: including the Script in a society, which is dominated by and notes. Disc 2: a recording of class, it is impossible to maintain the play performed by the students an absolute individual moral code: of Xaverian on DVD. The script for ethics depends on what face you this version of the play was written are dealing with, or presenting to by Wynn Moran and Rob Faulkner the world. especially for Xaverian College, Manchester, UK.

College Brecht The Women of Troy Woyzeck - in English 40’ | BC-Brecht | DVD & Streaming

The film presents a series of workshops with college students, aged 16-18, to suggest approaches to Brecht as playwright and practitioner. The sessions could be adapted to suit high school, undergraduate or youth theatre groups. Rob Faulkner and Wynn Moran, who teach Drama at Xaverian Sixth Form College, Manchester, devised the structure of the workshops after successfully re-writing, staging and filming their own Brechtian version of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera. Two other staff members of the Xaverian Drama team: Katy Cairns and Stephen Hall, helped to conduct the workshops that cover topics such as:

• a comparison of Stanislavskian naturalism and Brecht’s political theatre

• the Street scene and the V-effekt

• Social Gestus, tableaux and archetypes GAT-Wom | DVD 92’| FAN-Woyzeck | DVD & Streaming

• episodic form and the use of captions and narration The drama department at Xaverian Produced by Francis Annan and Xaverian • Brecht and music Sixth Form College in Manchester College, Manchester, this feature-length embarked on an ambitious project to production is the world’s first English The workshop film is recommended for secondary education. produce a film version of ‘The Trojan language version of Georg Buchner’s Women’ by Euripides. Lead by director/ stage-play, Woyzeck (1837). producer Phil Hawkins, a professional crew filmed for a week, and nine months later the film received its premiere to great reviews. K-12

Commedia by Fava: The Commedia dell’ Arte Black Comedy alla Step by Step (2 parts) Pulcinella by Antonio Fava Mask Mask Making Mime

258’ | AF-Commby | DVD & Streaming 148’ | CAM-Fava | DVD & Streaming 54’ | KD-Mask | DVD & Streaming 54’ | KD-Mmake | DVD & Streaming 54’ | KD-Mime | DVD & Streaming The 2 DVDs is the most complete, A real deal: an original performance up-to-date method for learning with an internationally acclaimed Firstly, exercises explores the use The program demonstrates three In the earliest exercises students Commedia dell’Arte as taught by Italian master, Antonio Fava. Little of “neutral mask” to force students basic mask making techniques, learn to isolate and articulate each Antonio Fava. The world-famous Opera in words, Lazzi and Music to learn to express emotions through ranging from a simple plaster body part. Later exercises provide maestro explains and demonstrates in the style of the Neapolitan posture and gesture, without facial bandage technique to subtle and students with a Mime vocabulary in details the characters, movement, Commedia dell’arte. expression. Then, exercises explore flexible latex masks and fanciful they can use to articulate objects, masks, and comic scenarios of the use of masks as a way of papier-mâché techniques. characters, environments, processes Commedia dell’ Arte. inhabiting alternative identities. and stories.

Commedia dell’ Arte Spirit of Commedia The Hamlet in Circus in Education Dance and Drama in Commedia dell’ Arte style Uganda, The Pearl of Africa

This documentary/ interview allows This video introduction to the Michael Alaimo and his group CIRCUS SKILLS The only available The result of a unique three-year an informative insight into Antonio commedia dell’arte features Luoghi perform several scenes from instructional video which teaches collaboration between Ugandan Fava’s teachings both theoretical and dell’Arte, one of Rome’s leading “Hamlet” in “Commedia dell’arte” the basics of JUGGLING, STILLTS, playwright, researcher, teacher practical as the traditional character commedia dell’arte companies, in style: his advice to the players, the UNICYCLING, ACROBATICS, WIRE and folklore exponent, Dr Mercy of Pulcinella is being performed by performance, in the studio and in encounter with his father’s ghost his WALKING. Reg Bolton explains all Mirembe Ntangaare and New Zealand him and his students. In English and discussion. confrontation with his mother, and the secrets while teaching a groups teacher, playwright and researcher, Italian. Ophelia’s “mad scene”. of year 8 students. Susan Battye, the e-book provides many contemporary and historical perspectives on Ugandan dance and drama.

SHAKESPEARE K-12

Combat for the Stage 96’ | DVC-Combat| DVD Shakespeare is Alive and Well in the Modern World 47’ | GA-Shake1 | DVD & Streaming Creative Drama & Improvisation 110’ | DVC-Creat | DVD This program compares Shakespearean themes with similar themes from modern works, enabling students to Your class is encouraged to participate along with the penetrate complex Elizabethan vocabulary and experience following exercises: -What is creative drama? -Dramatic insight into character’s feelings, motives and actions. play and exercises -The creative process -Improvisational exercises -Creative drama for rehearsals. Shakespeare’s Tragedies: A Video Commentary 28’ | GA-Shake3 | DVD & Streaming The Directing Process 90’ | DVC-Direct| DVD History of directing, Working with designers, How to Explore the characters, stories and central themes of select a play, Principles of staging, Text analysis, Blocking Shakespearean tragedy. The program is based on an & Picturization, Successful Collaboration, Rehearsing the interview with Suzanne L. Wofford, Assistant Prof. of play. English, Yale University, who describes the theatre of Shakespeare’s day and the nature of his tragedy. Drama/Comedy 45’ | GA-DC | DVD & Streaming The Stage Fight Director 33’ | TAV-Fi | DVD This program discusses comedy, its plot devices, stock characters, different forms, satiric goals and black humour and illustrates its diversity with lively excerpts from Voice Workout for the Actor 33’ | TAV-Voice| DVD Shakespeare, Kopit, Simon, Friedman, Goldsmith and Shaw.

Drama/Tragedy 45’ | GA-DT | DVD & Streaming Defines tragedy and tragic conflict, explores the major aspects of character and structure in tragic drama. Illustrated and explored through selections from such Shakespeare at Sea JD-Sha | e-book great dramatists as Tennessee Williams, Chekhov, Ibsen, A piece of theatre in education that offers the young Shakespeare, O’Neill, Sophocles and Arthur Miller. playgoer an introduction to many of the characters from Shakespeare’s comedies. The tragedies are A Dynamic Vocal Workout 25’ | TAV-Speak | DVD represented by characters in the subplots such as Hamlet (a mouse),Romeo (a dog) and Juliet(a cat) all of whom Performing Shakespeare contribute to Will’s play in some way. 120’ | TAV-Perf | DVD JD-Zak | e-book Move your way through any Shakespearean text with Zak Zebra a highly physical series of exercises presented by On the plains of the Serengeti, Zak Zebra, takes on the Shakespeare specialist Kathleen F. Conlin. This video goes task of the dangerous quest even as the adults in his from the exploration of specific words and movements to community retreat from their responsibilities. The e-book the development of the ghost scene from Hamlet. Divided contains a vast array of images, the entire play script, into ten easy-to-show segments. director’s notes and video clips.

Shakespeare: A Day at the Globe Athena Emu at the Olympics JD-Ath | e-book 28’ | GA-Shake2 | DVD & Streaming Written and Directed by Jenny de Reuck This e-book with Discussion of early theaters and the operations of its blend of classical fact and fiction offers drama teachers the Globe, its architecture, stage design and galleries. a lively script for young performers and audiences as well Dramatic readings, authentic costumes and sound effects as set and costume designs, the lyrics and musical scores present Shakespearean drama as it may have looked to its for the songs. original audiences. asian collection

The Theatres of Asia: Asian Theater: An Introduction Conversation with A.C. Scott

DG-Asia | 45’ | DVD & Streaming MS-Scot | 28’ | DVD

Places the major forms of both Asian A.C. Scott elaborates on his long years classical and folk theatre in their of experience in China and Japan cultural context, this video introduces and shows film clips and slides of his Asian theatre through the roles it plays classes, rehearsals and workshop in the lives of Asian people and its productions in which Asian performers special relationship to young people. have assisted him in the training of American student actors. noh theatre

Acting Techniques of Noh, the Classical The Japanese Noh - Theatre & Music Music of the the Noh Theatre Theatre of Japan Noh Theatre 2 DVDs Noh Theatre of Japan Selected Scenes

MS-Noh | 29’ | DVD MG-Japan | 28’ | DVD MG-Sel | 103’ | DVD & Streaming MG-Noh | 194’ | DVD MG-Music | 91’ | DVD & Streaming

With Akira Matsui. Basic posture Akiro Matsui, professional actor Performance selections from the Five Musical segments from the Musical segments from the following patterns of walking and turning. and master-teacher of the Kita Noh Main Schools of Traditional Japanese following Noh plays and Dances: Noh plays and dances: Okina, Sanbaso, Variations of these depending on School of Tokyo, performs excerpts Noh; including: Takasago Yashima, Okina Sanbaso, Kami-mai, Miwa Kami-mai, Miwa, Kakko, Nomori, the sex, temperament, age and from the plays BENKEI ON THE Hagoromo, Tenko, Midare, Koi no Kakko, Nomori, Shishi, Utaura, Shishi, Utaura, Matsumushi, Kanjincho, personality of a character. Symbolism BRIDGE and THE LADY HAN. The Netori, Youchi Soga Matsumushi, Kanjincho, Miidera. Miidera. Performed by many of the of hand gestures and more... Ominameshi, Kazuraki. Interviews: most important musicians of the Noh excerpts illustrate widely contrasting Performance selections from the Okura Genjiro, Fujita Rokurobyoue theatre world. aspects of the Noh actor’s art. Umewaka Gensyou and more... Five Main Schools of Traditional Japanese Noh.

Noh Play Noh Theatre - Dojoji Asian Concepts of Stage Bunraku The Lovers’ Exile “Tale of Genji” excerpts Discipline and Western Classical Japanese Actor Training Puppet Art

Excerpts from the Japanese dance- Featuring highlights and a complete A.C. Scott draws on long years of Includes performances from two Brings an engaging theatrical form drama Noh play “Tale of Genji”, performance. Featuring Kanze experience in China, Japan, and traditional Bunraku dramas and from Japan to contemporary cinema from the 14th century, performed Kiyokazu, at Obori Koen Nogakudo, teaching to present a clear philosophy filmed scenes showing how the audiences, merging the artistry and by Tatsuo Minagawa,Tei Ko, Shizu Fukuoka; Umewaka Rokuro, at Nagoya of Asian stage discipline and its puppets are made and articulated. grace of the legendary Bunraku Nakamura, and Yuki Shimoda, with Nogakudo; Shiotsu Akio, filmed on the application to the training of western Commentary by Faubion Bowers, Puppet Theatre with the power of the commentary by the leading Japanese outdoor Noh Stage of Misogi Shrine actors. expert on dance and Asian arts. screen through the collective talent of scholar Donald Keene. Nogakuden, in Yamanashi. many international contributors. kabuki

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Kagamijishi MG-Kag | 70’ | DVD Tamasaburo Bando displays his extraordinary versatility in this most demanding of roles; first as a shy maiden and then as a fierce lion. Also features Tamasaburo in the dances Kanaya Tanzen and Kosu no To.

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Masterpieces of Kabuki Theatre Series An outstanding series of Kabuki Plays. All filmed at Tokyo’s famed Kabuki- za Theatre. Many of the most widely admired Kabuki stars, several declared Living National Treasures of Japan, are included in this selection of Kabuki masterworks.

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Physical Theatre: Cine Dance: The Butoh Butoh Butoh Butoh and Beyond of Tatsumi Hijikata Piercing the Mask Body Weather Farm (by Takahiko iimura)

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The video is a documentary of a Anma (The Masseurs) Dancers: This documentary pierces the An insight into the training practices workshop presented by Cheryl Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito mystery and mystique of a dance and life on Body Weather Farm - the Heazlewood in Perth in 1996. Ohno, Akira Kasai, and others. Rose movement adored by the West and home to one of Japan’s most enigmatic Cheryl presents powerful and inspiring Color Dance Dancers: Tatsumi largely ignored by the Japanese. It Butoh practitioners, Min Tanaka training exercises which are drawn Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, uses archival and modern footage and his dance company, Mai Juku. from her eclectic training in occidental Akira Kasai, Mitsutaka Ishii, and of leading Butoh performers - Featuring previously unpublished and oriental movement and theatre. others... Dairakudakan, Hakutobo, Kazuo Ono photographs. - and interviews.

The Bali Dances: Dances of Bali Acting Techniques Adapting Topeng, Masks and Faces: A Veil Between Worlds of Topeng, Masked the Masked Theatre of Dance and Drama Theatre of Bali Bali in Bali

Eleven of Bali’s most dramatic dances Several important classic Balinese John Emigh introduces the masked John Emigh explains how he has A comprehensive guide to Balinese to show how intimately culture, dances are performed by six dancers theatre of Bali and shows how incorporated mask training and dance and drama by Dr. David religion and life are inter-twined in and twelve musicians, artists masks may be used as a guide to the improvisation. Highlighted with George. Dancing for the Gods; Bali. Content: Legong Kraton, Aria, celebrated in their own culture yet interpretation of character. The walk, humorous excerpts from LITTLE Trance and Dance; Masks and Faces; Sanghyang Jaran & Kecak, Baris, hardly known abroad. Interviews in variations on the basic walk, variety RED RIDING SHAWL. He discusses Shadows Of The Past (Topeng). With Topeng, Joged, Palawakiya, Terunajaya, Malay with two leading dancers are of character types and voices that is the ways he has combined ideas more than 100 unique slides. Condong, Calonarang. included: Raka and Sukraka. possible to achieve with the masks. from the West and from the masked theatre of Bali. stagecraft / backstage

To make good costumes for stage Scene Painting Techniques performances you need to “understand 83’ | DVC-Paint| DVD what goes into an act and how costumes will interact with the performer”. Conducting Light A Documentary by Marianne Latham. 60’ | TAV-Cond | DVD Costume Designer for world- Play it Safe: Introduction renowned Circus of Oz, Laurel Frank talks about her trade and how her to Theatre Safety designs take an integral role on stage. 82’ | TAV-Play | DVD She uses traditional lycra and sequins with a modern and vivid twist. A colourful account on designing for stage, working with performers and making art that must be applied with strict functionality. stagecraft / backstage

Standby Cue 101 Affective Space: Stage Design: How to Create Theory and Practice Praxis and Theory Low-Budget SFX

An Introduction to Calling Live 3 Disc account on the subject of From the perspective of art history The film features real-time makeup Performances is a first-of-its-kind Affective Space: includes a PhD and drawing on visual examples from application for a number of scenarios training film for students and early dissertation by Serge Tampalini, more than 50 theatre productions including cuts, bite marks, bullet career stage managers. The film Lecturer and Theatre Designer/ that constitute the author’s oeuvre, holes and stitches. Uses easy to find focuses on the role of the stage Director for two decades. Through the book traces the evolution of ingredients such as tissue paper manager in technical rehearsals the consideration of more than thirty his theatre work and provides the and latex along with blood made and performances. theatre productions it investigates reader with an inspirational insight from food topping and colouring to design outside of its decorative role. into contemporary theatre direction produce outstanding results. and design.

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